Covered this week; Apple and the state of podcasting… why the birds flock to Wrigley… a Spectre style re-imagining of The Empire Strikes Back title sequence… Panic Software’s new sign… vintage landmarks colorized… Bill Davies dies one day after relinquishing control of Chicago’s Old Post Office… checking your internet speed quick fast in a hurry… Joe Perry’s Walk This Way guitar isolated…
May 9, 2016
Apple currently treats Podcasts as just another free service to help in selling hardware… but it has become a very popular media source since being born out of Apple just over a decade a ago. Apple met with some of the countries foremost Podcasters last week to start the discussion on where the infrastructure goes next… Marco Arment’s advice on being careful what you wish for… along with Federico Viticci’s take for MacStories…
May 10, 2016
“This is the time period when gulls are flying to the lakefront to spend the night roosting on beaches, docks and breakwaters after a hard day of visiting landfills or mall parking lots looking for food… So if they see activity at Wrigley, they come check it out. When one gull finds a food source, pretty quickly others follow, so soon you have a flock of gulls.”
May 11, 2016
Created for his senior thesis at SVA, this Bond film style re-imagining of The Empire Strikes Back title sequence by Kurt Rauffer is so very cool… truly hard to believe that this Radiohead song ‘Spectre’ was rejected by the newest Bond film Spectre, especially in light of that awful Sam Smith song they used instead.
May 12, 2016
One of my favorite software companies ever has a new sign… and it goes the extra mile…
10 colorized vintage photos of famous landmarks being built.
May 13, 2016
A self-made multimillionaire who once owned England’s most famous racecourse, Bill Davies had exasperated City Hall and Chicago’s developer community for years by failing to get to work on the 2.5 million-square-foot ‘Old Post Office’ building that straddles Congress Parkway and has sat vacant since the mid-1990s. Grand plans he floated for the site repeatedly fell through. Today, just one day after relinquishing control of the site, the 82-year old Davies has died.
May 14, 2016
Sometimes, for whatever reason, you need to know the speed of your internet pipe… for as far back as I can remember I’ve been going to SpeedTest.net… and that site remains a great choice if you’re looking for more detailed information… but if you simply want to know the speed… say for streaming purposes or whatever you may have… try the new Fast.com from Netflix… gives the goods ‘fast’… works from the desktop as well as mobile…
May 15, 2016
And just for a little fun on a Sunday afternoon… Joe Perry’s isolated guitar from Walk This Way is a bit of fun.
Gonna take next week off… see you on the 23rd.
