Rogue Habits

Weather Forecasting With the Tempo Drop

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The Tempo Drop is an elegantly simple device for weather prediction, using a mixture of water, ethanol, and camphor sealed in a crystal teardrop. As a modern version of a storm glass, the forecaster makes for an infinitely more romantic approach to checking the weather than an app. Indeed, reading the tempo drop is a sophisticated art in itself. At it[...]

Alfredo Rodríguez: Sounds of Cuban Jazz Space

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Step off your back porch on a late summer night, and if you're lucky enough to live outside the city and its caterwaul, you'll hear the rhythms of nature: crickets and katydids in chorus, cicadas keeping the beat, the stately declaration of an owl. This is nature's jazz. Rationally, the sounds would fall together in a odd intermingling, and yet, they fall to[...]

Multipurpose Transforming Furniture Makes Clever Use of a Russian Cottage

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Whenever a new multiform furniture design comes out, one is brought back to the 1938 Disney short cartoon, "Mickey's Trailer." Despite the haphazard misadventures of Mickey, Goofy, and Donald on the road, you can't help but admire the clever design as bedrooms convert into bathrooms with a drawn bath in a zipper-opened bathtub. Surely this cartoon must be th[...]

Dinah Thorpe: Lullabies and Wake-up Calls

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Due to certain musical prejudices I was hitherto unaware of hosting, the prospect of listening to a rap album by a white, assumedly middle-class Canadian songwriter initially struck me as somewhat unappealing, if not entirely uninteresting; an unsavoury mixture of musical bacon and ice cream. However, delving further always helps. On Lullabies and Wake-up Ca[...]

Japanese noodles: what they are and how to eat them

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Japanese food is an exciting, odd and innovative mix of delicious flavors, textures, and regions. The 5th basic taste, umami, which means "a pleasant savory taste" was scientifically discovered in Japan, so their relationship with food is vast and intrinsic to their culture. From the freshest sushi in the world, to perfectly cooked rice, rich curries, tempur[...]

Barking and Dagenham's Museum on Wheels

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Verity-Jane Keefe has a vision for Barking and Dagenham, London, UK, and she's throwing a Kickstarter for it. It's pretty modest by Kickstarter standards; it needs £7K ($9066.86 USD) and it's assembled £4.6K ($7508.63 USD) of that total already. The project is a mobile museum, starting from a converted mobile library van - but the project has a unique tw[...]

Album Review: Basement Jaxx "Junto"

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With the sudden re-emergence of electronic music's favorite son, the Aphex Twin, it seems that electronica/EDM/that car alarm sound (whatever you want to call it) is falling into a particularly ruminative period; a self-reflective time to allow genre-heads to recollect and examine the general state of the genre as a whole. Now, electronic music - repackaged [...]

Infamous Party Islands

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Traveling the world in your youth is a spectacularly exciting rite of passage. It opens your eyes to people, places, cultures, and customs that are uniquely disparate from your own. Yet, in between sightseeing and absorbing the delightfully new surroundings, time should unquestionably be made for some fun. While most cities around the world can boast of exci[...]

Boobs, honey pots and fannies

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Boobs, honey pots and fannies. As a presentation of lovely lady bits, painter Morgan Miller delves into anti traditional classic portraiture in drastic crops and angles, imparting an undoubtedly intimate visual effect. Peach and tea rose tones against cerulean backdrops and celeste tunics—soft, blended oils form bare breasts from under shirts, feathered bums[...]

Album Review: This Will Destroy You "Another Language"

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Ah, post rock. Crescendos, melodic and cinematic interweaving guitar play. Beautiful songs that were made for dramatic movie scenes. I would listen to you all day, every day. But that was ten plus years ago before a slew of bands came along with the imprint and did nothing with it beyond unashamedly copying. The bands to survive this; Mogwai, Sigur Ros, Gods[...]

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