#dazzleships

[fortuneaday]

hii may i please have a fortune? :)

What you help a child to love may be more important than what you help them to learn.

[thevinyldigest]

OMD - Dazzle Ships: A Masterpiece of Experimental Pop Music | Happy 40th Anniversary OMD’s fourth album, „Dazzle Ships,“ released in 1983, is an exceptional example of how a band can experiment with their sound while still maintaining their identity. It’s a fascinating, thought-provoking, and powerful record that challenged the audience’s expectations of what pop music should be. #OMD #DazzleShips #80sMusic #NewWave #ExperimentalMusic #Synthpop #AlbumReview #MusicCritics #MusicMagazines #PopMusic #BritishMusic #MusicHistory #Vinyl #RecordCollection #MusicDiscovery #MusicIsLife #MusicLovers #MusicNerd #MusicGeek #MusicObsessed https://www.instagram.com/p/CpYIF9SMCZP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[randomandrelaxing]

Poems, Shakespeare and Dazzle Ships

From the middle of England, this is the voice of random and relaxing ASMR.

You may have noticed I’m reading some of my old poems in some of my videos. It is interesting for me to look back over old things I have written and think about the person I was. Sometimes you can seem like a stranger to yourself, and sometimes you read things and realise there are threads that pass unbroken through your life for years and years.

It’s fun to give these pieces a chance to live again through a YouTube video. Back when I wrote some of these things it was impossible to think of them being shared in this way, because they are from the days before YouTube...maybe even in some cases from the days before...the internet.

It’s interesting too to think about the difference between the written word and the spoken word. You can share written words easily so long as other people can read your language, whether it’s a handwritten note or a page in a diary, or printed words in a book or zeroes and ones in an email.

But what’s lost is the human connection from speech – the rhythms and accents and emphasis in our voices.

In the UK when I grew up we studied the great bard William Shakespeare in school, but back then nearly all of the classroom time was spent reading his plays in books and writing essays about them. If you were lucky you might get to go on a trip to see a play actually being performed live on stage in the format he intended to share his works. But for the most part we read and analysed and discussed his plays in a form very different from the one he created them in. Somehow this was deemed correct, but it was so far from the reality of his craft.

I wonder what Shakespeare would have made of YouTube and whether he’d have been a YouTuber instead of a playwright. Moreover, I wonder who, today in our land of internet connectivity, is going to stand the test of time and still be talked about in 500 years time?

Who knows…

Notoriety and the idea of living on in the future is sometimes beyond our control. The previous episode of The Voice of Random and Relaxing ASMR was called “Music For Your Tape Recorder” and was me playing guitar.

But the title that I gave the video was actually the first line in a song called “This is Helena” by the group Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark from their LP “Dazzle Ships”. I was listening to that LP in my car the other day and had forgotten about the song. I guess it had subconsciously come to me as an idea because of the animated tape recorders that I use for these video pieces.

“Dazzle Ships” is a really interesting, experimental album. The song “This is Helena” is a collage of sounds; the vocal is part of a recording of a radio announcer from an overseas radio station in the 1980s.

It’s odd to think of Helena in her studio at her radio station job, announcing to the world and not realising she was being picked up on a radio in Liverpool by a pop group, who then used her voice in a song on their record and preserved her in a new art form. You should check the song out – it’s easy enough to find on the big old internet.

As ever, if you are still listening, I would love to hear from you, wherever you are. Drop me a line in the comments or send me a direct message.

[nojarama]

Happy anniversary to OMD’s album, ‘Dazzle Ships’. Released this week in 1983. #omd #orchestralmanoeuvresinthedark #petersaville #dazzleships #geneticengineering #telegraph https://www.instagram.com/p/CL_5xadAyM9/?igshid=1x2xxsdft136t

[number3-design]

DAZL HAHANA: 2020 Rebuild Due to old age and irreparable damage, I had to retire my 1995 Kona Hahana. Having given good service, it had been in active duty with the Number 3 regimental rider from 2002-2020. Fortunately, identical frame fitted with Project 2 forks was found. The dream lives on. For the 2020 rebuild, I have adopted the 'Dazzle camouflage' pattern as applied to shipping during World War One - Consisting of complex patterns of geometric shapes, interrupting and intersecting each other.  #KonaBikes   #mountainbike   #DazzleShips   #EdwardWadsworth  #WorldWarOne  #WWI   #GraphicArt   #Paul Nicholson  #Number3  #3  #III https://www.instagram.com/p/CDbmYPHhdU6/?igshid=wdcvx5fvwf2c

[number3-design]

DAZL HAHANA: 2020 Rebuild Due to old age and irreparable damage, I had to retire my 1995 Kona Hahana. Having given good service, it had been in active duty with the Number 3 regimental rider from 2002-2020. Fortunately, identical frame fitted with Project 2 forks was found. The dream lives on. For the 2020 rebuild, I have adopted the 'Dazzle camouflage' pattern as applied to shipping during World War One - Consisting of complex patterns of geometric shapes, interrupting and intersecting each other.  #KonaBikes   #mountainbike   #DazzleShips   #EdwardWadsworth  #WorldWarOne  #WWI   #GraphicArt   #Paul Nicholson  #Number3  #3  #III https://www.instagram.com/p/CDbmVPLBQ2b/?igshid=xkltr8ezvdz6

[number3-design]

DAZL HAHANA: 2020 Rebuild Due to old age and irreparable damage, I had to retire my 1995 Kona Hahana. Having given good service, it had been in active duty with the Number 3 regimental rider from 2002-2020. Fortunately, identical frame fitted with Project 2 forks was found. The dream lives on. For the 2020 rebuild, I have adopted the 'Dazzle camouflage' pattern as applied to shipping during World War One - Consisting of complex patterns of geometric shapes, interrupting and intersecting each other.  #KonaBikes   #mountainbike   #DazzleShips   #EdwardWadsworth  #WorldWarOne  #WWI   #GraphicArt   #Paul Nicholson  #Number3  #3  #III https://www.instagram.com/p/CDbmTezBhFS/?igshid=kriadrf22mms

[number3-design]

DAZL HAHANA: 2020 Rebuild Due to old age and irreparable damage, I had to retire my 1995 Kona Hahana. Having given good service, it had been in active service with the Number 3 regimental rider from 2002-2020. Fortunately, identical frame fitted with Project 2 forks was found. The dream lives on. For the 2020 rebuild, I have adopted the 'Dazzle camouflage' pattern as applied to shipping during World War One - Consisting of complex patterns of geometric shapes, interrupting and intersecting each other.  #DazzleShips   #EdwardWadsworth  #WorldWarOne  #WWI   #GraphicArt   #Paul Nicholson  #Number3  #3  #III   https://www.instagram.com/p/CDLGwp3BH_t/?igshid=mkgiv5mihk0g