all curious news

Blissville …An Investigation Docu / Poem

For those of you who want dig much much deeper into the concept and reality of Blissville, Queens, a unique ...
Read More

My Favorite Obsessive Youtube Channels Pt 1

Who needs cable or satellite when you have these awesomely obsessive youtube channels at your disposal. Each one is it’s ...
Read More

Ultra Precog Weirdness from Blissville

I felt compelled to write a follow-up about a short film called Radio Free Blissville, which was produced in 2009 ...
Read More

July 4th in Brooklyn with WHOT

This is always worth watching at least once a year. This is back when Brooklyn was more exciting and lawless ...
Read More

Awesome Collection of Punk Rock Posters

These were all made before the internet destroyed the WORLD. It's amazing how nostalgic I get sometimes. You could do ...
Read More

Les Paul’s Pirate Radio Station in Queens

Les Paul was an innovator on a whole other level. Not only did he build the first solid body electric ...
Read More

Steve Jobs and the Strawberry Fields Forever Process

In the  Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson Jobs talks about listening to and being influenced by the complete perfectionism behind ...
Read More

Delia Derbyshire

I believe I am smitten with Delia Derbyshire. She was part of the innovative BBC Radiophonic Workshop back in the ...
Read More

Maker Faire in Queens NY 2011

This is happening this weekend at the NY Hall of Science. It was pretty tremendous last year. Something for everyone ...
Read More

2010 NYC Maker Faire

So the first NYC Maker Faire was last weekend in Queens New York. It was exhausting in a really good ...
Read More

Radio Free Blissville – Interview

Interview to soon be published in näkyvyys (Finland) näkyvyys: Where did this idea come from? J.F. Culhane: The idea for ...
Read More

Radio Free Blissville at Anthology

Here is the press for this show. The docs they are showing should be cool too. XFP Radio Free Blissville ...
Read More

Personal Transmitters

Came across this with schematics. Very cool. I love these crazy antennas reconstituted from other things like parts of fireplaces ...
Read More

Circuit Bending Workshop – Bent Fest 2010

This was from a circuit bending workshop in Dumbo in 2010 that was part of Bent Fest. People just brought ...
Read More

JUST ADD SWEAT

Circa 1984 The Dead Kennedys headlined a mega-show at the Beacon Theater, with opening acts No Thanks, The New York ...
Read More

Beware False Prophets

One blazingly hot Sunday afternoon in 1980-something I went to the Tompkins Square Park bandshell for "Rock Against Redevelopment," a ...
Read More

The Osmotic Telegraph – Lenox Rant

Hardcore was certainly named right; although it flew way below the radar it had some of the most rabid and ...
Read More

On Learning To Do Without What You Never Needed In The First Place

If I may paraphrase Mick Foley, I'm not Old School; I'm from the school that burned down before the Old ...
Read More