Phil Adams
@phil-adams.bsky.social
Lowfalutin® brand strategy. Your irresistible truth and how to tell it®.
Co-founder of All Hands On: NFP documentary production company.
Trustee on the board of Scottish Documentary Institute.
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Co-founder of All Hands On: NFP documentary production company.
Trustee on the board of Scottish Documentary Institute.
https://buttondown.com/Lowfalutin/archive
Ha. I have Standing On A Beach on cassette somewhere. Probably in my parents' garage or loft, along with my AC/DC LPs.
November 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Ha. I have Standing On A Beach on cassette somewhere. Probably in my parents' garage or loft, along with my AC/DC LPs.
I took this picture of a cassette vending machine in a museum of "recent retro" artefacts in Takayama. It's a brilliantly cluttered labour of curatorial love, through a Nania-wardrobe-like door at the back of a sweet shop. We came out feeling the nostalgia equivalent of hyperventilating.
November 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I took this picture of a cassette vending machine in a museum of "recent retro" artefacts in Takayama. It's a brilliantly cluttered labour of curatorial love, through a Nania-wardrobe-like door at the back of a sweet shop. We came out feeling the nostalgia equivalent of hyperventilating.
Thanks Simon. It/they were beyond magnificent. Now I just need to remember what work is.
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Thanks Simon. It/they were beyond magnificent. Now I just need to remember what work is.
I can only find one Australian author on my bookshelf. Dirt Music by Tim Winton was very good. His most recommended book seems to be Cloudstreet.
thegreatestbooks.org/authors/7361
thegreatestbooks.org/authors/7361
The greatest books written by Tim Winton
This page contains all the books written by the author Tim Winton
thegreatestbooks.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I can only find one Australian author on my bookshelf. Dirt Music by Tim Winton was very good. His most recommended book seems to be Cloudstreet.
thegreatestbooks.org/authors/7361
thegreatestbooks.org/authors/7361
And now I know how Joan of Arc felt
As the flames rose
To her Roman nose
And her Walkman started to melt
As the flames rose
To her Roman nose
And her Walkman started to melt
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
And now I know how Joan of Arc felt
As the flames rose
To her Roman nose
And her Walkman started to melt
As the flames rose
To her Roman nose
And her Walkman started to melt
Just arrived back from Aus (via Japan) yesterday. Will have a think and come back to you. Thanks for pre-vetting the Booker nominees. Reading as a Service.
November 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Just arrived back from Aus (via Japan) yesterday. Will have a think and come back to you. Thanks for pre-vetting the Booker nominees. Reading as a Service.
It felt true as I read it. A minor revelation.
October 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
It felt true as I read it. A minor revelation.
Yep. McLuhan (and others) have written about how artists often have a greater intuitive feel for new technology and its implications than anyone else, including and perhaps especially its inventors.
October 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Yep. McLuhan (and others) have written about how artists often have a greater intuitive feel for new technology and its implications than anyone else, including and perhaps especially its inventors.
Oh my goodness. Me too. I love that book. The bit where the guy's apparat tells him that he's the least attractive person in the bar and he just turns around and walks straight out again. It always felt like a glimpse of the future, a glimpse of the plank that we'd all end up merrily walking.
October 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Oh my goodness. Me too. I love that book. The bit where the guy's apparat tells him that he's the least attractive person in the bar and he just turns around and walks straight out again. It always felt like a glimpse of the future, a glimpse of the plank that we'd all end up merrily walking.