Not sure if this is a bug in primal but when zapping an article, it doesn’t record it against the article. The payment does go out of my wallet though to the correct destination. @primal

Photography around churchyards is incredibly interesting and for some reason gets my black and white eyes engaged. Stonework is very textural and therefore loaded with tones. Hence black and white is good. The Oxeye Daisies amused me, my dark sense of humour reminded me of the phrase “pushing up the daisies”. Is there a connection between that, old English perhaps and their presence in such places? I’ve often seen the letters JHR on graves, thinking it said LHR which would either mean Left-hand side or London Heathrow. No, none of those! It’s Latin, “Jesus Hominum” something else. I believe it represents Jesus our saviour. If anyone knows, I’d be interested to know!

Nature claiming back the old gravestones live there’s no tomorrow! I love seeing stuff like this, is photographic wonder.

These glorious blue doors belong to the church of St James, Finchampstead. I recall a photographer or two producing coffee table books dedicated to random doors around the world. I think there’s more room for books like that.

A photo of my mates homemade Theremin synth that someone sent to him as a thank you for something he helped them with. It came as a kit and he has had masses of fun with it that’s for sure.

What a glorious tree! I came across this ancient Yew in the graveyard of a church in Aldermaston, Berkshire as part of my church photography project which incidentally is going to be posted here too, as an ongoing series. Will resume my bridges of the River Thames project too.

Uploading photos in primal isn’t working for me at the moment and it’s a tad annoying!

Me jamming with a couple of other artists, I’m wearing the rusty coloured fleece over on the right hand side. My synth is the second photo. The other two musicians were playing a Buchla (middle) and a Polyend synth (right) - the Moog Matriarch/Grandmother not sure which of the two it was in this case, can’t remember as it didn’t play a part in the jam. Did I record it? Sadly not! Someone else might have done.

Great discovery, finding tour music

Wavlake

Edge of Entropy • Simon Slee

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Right let’s do some more Nostring this week as I’ve neglected it recently. Naughty, I know! Hope you are all doing ok?

Have been testing the latest version of Loopy Pro for the iPad recently. It’s a beta version due for release quite soon. Here’s an example.

@PappasBland it’s now possible to spend with your crypto balance as a Revolut customer! They say: Spend straight from your crypto balance, wherever you are — with zero exchange fees. Fair usage fees may apply. I’m going to try this out somehow. You can now add crypto based virtual cards to your Revolut app and to your phones digital wallet. I’ll see where I can test this out in the future @BTC Map will be the place to look. I believe there’s a pub not far from us that accepts payments via bitcoin.

Looking forward to trying this plugin out as soon as possible. I’m excited about it because I love the Elastic series of apps developed by Oliver Gretsche. This new one called Elastic Osc is based on Mutable Instruments Plaits eurorack module that has been a huge success in the modular synthesis world

App Store

Elastic OSC App - App Store

Download Elastic OSC by Oliver Greschke (DE) on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more games like Elastic OSC.

Let’s see what happens with this new experiment of mine, to sell sample packs online, this is just a little one but I’m working on some beefier selections that I will be selling as Koala projects and as a bundle of zipped up files. This one features a collection of sounds recorded around my kitchen, that could be used in percussive ways and there are a couple of drone loops in here that were recorded from our fridge. All you need to do is download the pack from here:

Google Drive

HiveSoundPack1-around-the-house - Google Drive

Please zap in order to pay for the pack, it’s kind of like donationware. I’m sure there are other ways of selling digital products here, let me know of your favourites and I will try those out in the future.

Funky Sunday guys and girls!

Fountain

Radio Stereon • Ep 43 - Junk Funk • Listen on Fountain

No talk. All Music. Radio Stereon is back after a one episode break with Junk Funk! All tracks can be found, supported and listened to on wavlake....

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@PappasBland hope you’re doing well. Saw your message on Substack regarding tips for getting your UK based brother up and running on Bitcoin. I was going to reply and Substack seems to have gone down. Strike does work here and you don’t need much to get it going either. As little or as much as you wish to throw in there. Nostr works the same as anywhere and I jump between Nostur and Primal. In terms of investment tools and exchanges, that’s where it gets a bit harder to advise. I’m running on sats and Nostr currently and not doing much more than that.

A hot air balloon flies over our house. So low, in fact at one point he was lower and boosted his gas passing over the house behind us and at the point of this photo, I reckon was under 100ft above us. The Daily Express is a British newspaper but I suspect this craft might have once promoted the newspaper. I had a look online and a balloon like this has flown at a number of big events. Is it one of a kind? In other photos I noted it had a number, some kind of ID I guess?

This sculpture was absolutely wild. It’s called Infinity Blue and is located in the Core building at the Eden Project, where the long term exhibition “Invisible Worlds” is currently running. Here is the gumpf

Eden Project

∞ Blue (Infinity Blue)

This huge breathing sculpture by Studio Swine pays homage to one of the world's smallest living beings.

Have just updated my Nostr address and LN address. The lights are still on. Cool.

Reading 2025 - black and white photos taken doing the Kennet & Avon Canal. Includes the old Gas building, former employees homes for the Huntley Palmer biscuit factory.