#Crank

WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-05-14

A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

That is what you have to expect if you invent anything that puts an old machine out of fashion, or solve a problem that has puzzled all the world up to your time. There never was a religion founded but its Messiah was called a crank. There never was an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1890-06), “Over the Teacups,” No. 7, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 66

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #acceptance #change #changeagent #crank #crazy #idiot #innovation #invention #malcontent #progress #reform

Mia Knox🏳️‍🌈❄️👑MiaKnox@social.tchncs.de
2025-05-04

Crank 4 will see Chev Chelios getting a pacemaker after his heart stoped in the aftermath of Crank 3. Sadly for him but good for us the pacemaker got hacked by a Hacker who installed an AI playing Doom on it. Chev now has only the time left the program needs to finish the game.

Do to the fact that Doom still is one of the most action fueled games this will drive Chev's heart beyond known limits.

#WorldExclusive #Leak #Crank #Crank4 #JasonStatham #Doom
#TrustMeBroImAnInsider #GAGS #BadJokes

Sprocket Bicycle Marketplacesprocketapp
2025-05-04

How to arms on Sprocket $$$

www.sprocket.bike/app

Matt ⁂ 🇳🇴 🇺🇦matt@oslo.town
2025-04-17

Looking forward to Season Two of @playdate games 🤩 Getting that pre-order in NOW!

social.panic.com/@playdate/114

#videogames #playdate #panic #gaming #season2 #crank #technology #tech

2025-03-30

New release review: Novocaine

#Crank #Cinemastodon

Tally MichelleTallyMichelle4@c.im
2025-03-22

#LoneHeroMovies #FilmMastodon
#Crank (2006)
Professional assassin Chev Chelios learns his rival has injected him with a poison that will kill him if his heart rate drops.
#JasonStatham

Matt ⁂ 🇳🇴 🇺🇦matt@oslo.town
2025-03-21

This thread is a mixed bag of @playdate news:

The price of the console is going up in future 📈 but you can buy refurbished hardware for a discounted price 🪛 or grab a console NOW at the existing price 💸

I like my Playdate. It's a very fun handheld console to use and I really admire that @panic ventured into that space. 👏

social.panic.com/@playdate/114

#Playdate #Gaming #Handheld #Crank #Panic

2025-02-21

Ideas to get you started:
• People who eat hot chips on public transport (solution: chip shop in the carriage)
• Road intersection windscreen washing panhandlers (solution: drive-thru car wash lane)
• Safety wear is unfashionable (solution: hi-viz haute couture)

#Crank #Blogging #GetYourCrankOn

2025-02-21

We should bring back Crank magazine.

Write a blog post:
• 350 to 500 words
• about something that annoys you
• but is actually trivial
• (important!) propose a solution!

Crank was the brainchild of Alice from Pink Nantucket Press, who seems to be on Instagram these days. A few print issues were published around 2014–15 but the format suits the blog publishing pipeline too.

#Crank #Blogging #GetYourCrankOn

CRANK issue 4 (2015) is an A5 zine, more a booklet. It’s in Photocopy Paper Green. On the front is a line drawing by Chris Lassig: a person reading a zine, with speech bubbles “outrageous!” “unbelievable!” “that’s wrong too!” “how dare they print this trash?!” “I’ve got a mind to complain”. The zine being read is, recursively, CRANK issue 4.
2025-02-20

So Sad They Had to Fade It

This article was first published in Crank Magazine from Pinknantucket Press in 2014.

Back in a previous life, I fancied myself as something of a musician. I was self-taught, so I would play on the family piano what I heard on the radio. When my listening skills weren’t up to the job I would spend hours in the basement at Allans on Collins Street, leafing through the sheet music and memorizing chord progressions—something I was genuinely good at—for me to practise when I got back home. The sheet music was way too expensive to actually buy.

So many songs on the radio would end the same way: Repeat And Fade. This would be what the sheet music said: 𝄆 eight bars 𝄇, then, as if it was helpful to me on my 1927 Becker upright grand, Repeat And Fade. In case you younger readers didn’t know, no, analogue pianos don’t have a volume control. The best I could manage was to play ever softer, poco a poco piano, until I was barely touching the keys.

When I was older, I started taking music theory lessons. One part of the syllabus was “cadences”, with peculiar names for the different chord progressions that end a piece of music: perfect, imperfect, pluperfect, plagal, interrupted. Cadences seemed to me at the time pointless. Who uses them? Surely everyone just ends with Repeat And Fade!

Apparently not, I was to learn as i broadened my musical tastes. Classical music hardly ever ends with Repeat And Fade1. Classical music is full of proper, perfect (or imperfect, or past perfect) cadences. And it hardly affected sales of their albums at all! When Mozart was writing his Requiem, he didn’t just toss together “Kyrie eleison” (Repeat And Fade). He stuck a proper plagal cadence onto it, sung to the now-famous lyric: “Amen!”

So how did we lose the art of The Ending? When did composers decide, “screw it, it’s too hard to end this song properly, I’ll just turn the volume down”? Or was it the sound engineers, concerned about job security, putting their inimitable touch onto the recording process? Or was it the performers, too absorbed in their jam sessions, to remember how many bars they’d played? Is all modern music written by Stephen King? I don’t know, but I think it’s a cop-out, and it has to stop. All songs should end properly. Heck, even “99 Bottles of Beer on the wall” has an end.2

My plea goes out to all musicians everywhere: Shun Repeat And Fade! Spend five minutes wrapping up your songs properly. Use a cadence if you need; there are plenty to choose from. Kids with their analogue pianos will thank you from the bottom of their too-cheap-to-buy-the-sheet-music hearts.

Plagal cadence to that!

Deborah Pickett (@futzle), like everybody, wants to rule the world.

  1. footnote: One well-known exception was the last 15 seconds of John Cage’s 4′33″ ↩︎
  2. Imagine if it didn’t: zero bottles of beer on the wall / take one down, pass it around / minus one bottles of beer on the wall. ↩︎

#classicalMusic #crank

Rob Ivesrobives
2025-01-25

Three paper clips and four beads add together to make these charming moving models. Small enough to fit inside a greeting card, make one for someone you love! Find out more www.robives.com/project/beadwire⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

#Crank a 5,99€ su Prime Video. Beh! Mica me ne potevo privare. Azione, di quella tremendamente grezza quanto scorretta. Un Jason Statham genuinamente folle ❤️

Adoro 'sto film!

Angela Glansbury 🚽floppyplopper@todon.nl
2024-12-13

How should I refer to Steven Bartlett from now on?

#Poll #Quack #Crank #Crackpot #AntiVaxer #CovidConspiracist #Fraud #BoostsWelcome

Tally MichelleTallyMichelle4@c.im
2024-12-03

#RevengeMovies #FilmMastodon
#Crank (2006)
Professional assassin Chev Chelios learns his rival has injected him with a poison that will kill him if his heart rate drops.
#JasonStatham

2024-11-25

#Crank - so... this is a movie I have now seen... It's alternately terrible, amazing, hilarious, asinine, and kinda clever (but not fully). Amy Smart is the best part of it all.

𝟜𝟚𝟘 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝟿𝟻420@mrbot.de
2024-10-07

@playdate @cabel Hey there! 😊 I accidentally broke my crank when it took a little tumble, and now it’s sadly out of commission. I gave it a shot with super glue—fingers crossed it holds! Would it be possible to snag a spare with my next playdate order? Thanks a bunch! #Oops #PlayDate #PlaydateFun #Crank #Spareparts

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