Alexandre Mandarino

writer, electronic music producer, translator - distinct styles of beauty, vibes, ambiences, forms of art. there’s no brow.

[retrowar]

Wire it up

[commodorez]

I got curious about what we were looking at, and it turns out Ken Shirriff was too because he already crawled down this rabbithole.

This is a photograph by Berenice Abbott of a woman wiring up an IBM 405 "Alphabetic Accounting Machine" from 1934.

Here's another angle from the same set:

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

[orchidblack]

Blade Runner art by Laurie Greasley.

[everyday-cutephoto]

[thoughtportal]

[newretronet]

Visit NewRetro.Net for A journey to the Past  -

[jkottke]

Three thought experiments that suggest “the space-time continuum we seem to inhabit is not fundamental but an approximation of something deeper, and that the concept will eventually be replaced…” What a wrench in the works black holes are!

[coolvintagecars]

Lorraine by Guy Sabran (1930)

[bilibliophl]

Fly leafs for Spirou and Fantasio albums by André Franquin, 1950s-1970s.

[lisamarie-vee]

[dromik]

https://www.airesmateus.com/

[nevver]

Out past the last lights of town, Christopher Burk

[jamesheimer]

This story gives me chills. Alex Toth, Star Spangles War Stories #164

[nevver]

Jordan Bolton (the book!)

[alexmandarino]

The State of the Culture, 2024

Or a glimpse into post-entertainment society (it's not pretty)

Essential reading. It explains lots of things about the current dystopian reality.

[alexmandarino]

“On his best walks he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally was all he ever asked of things: to be nowhere.”

― City of Glass, 1985 - Paul Auster

[alexmandarino]

Ring Road, 1985 - Andrew Wyeth