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Flip Phillips

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Professor of Motion Picture Science at RIT. Ex Pixar. Visual Effects Society. Sensory neuroscientist. Snare drummer. Protanomalous trichromat. Appalachian. 1st Gen. flipphillips.com

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · Apr 5

While I was waiting for a call from the auto mechanic, unpacking records, I thought of something. #jazzsky.

Much-discussed Charles Schultz’ vinyl record collector and little kid I relate to - Charles Brown - examines my collection as I unpack it, expressing pride in -his- collection that I mistake and appropriate as my own.

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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 1d

This is a terrific #mustread essay and Die Grotesk is an absolutely masterful design, like all from Klim Type Foundry.

Lorcan Dempsey @lorcand.bsky.social · 1d

'Graphic designers love Helvetica. Type designers hate it.' buff.ly/doWlmZQ

Klim Type Foundry · Die Grotesk design information

Die Grotesk was shaped in the long shadow of Helvetica, a typeface both revered and resented in equal measure. Graphic designers love it. Type designers hate it. Endlessly revived and resold,…

klim.co.nz

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 19h

Have you tried unplugging it and plugging it back in again?

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 19h

The heppest.

Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 19h

For us, it was/is bedtime, wherein our bed becomes 'the thunderdome'.

Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 19h

Unsolicited advertising- rAudio, a pretty good, supported Raspberry Pi audio player.

github.com/rern/rAudio

GitHub - rern/rAudio: Raspberry Pi audio player: AirPlay, Audio CD, Bluetooth, DAB radio, DSP, Internet rafio, Multi-room, Spotify Connect, UPnP/DLNA

Raspberry Pi audio player: AirPlay, Audio CD, Bluetooth, DAB radio, DSP, Internet rafio, Multi-room, Spotify Connect, UPnP/DLNA - rern/rAudio

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 21h

Speaking of being a nerd, I think I've found my Halloween costume.

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 1d

a man with red hair is wearing a blue and yellow striped shirt .

ALT: a man with red hair is wearing a blue and yellow striped shirt .

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 1d

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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Neon Deutschland @neondeutschland.bsky.social · 1d

…and at night.

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Neon Deutschland @neondeutschland.bsky.social · 1d

Beer pairs well with neon.
(Also: how great is that ‘f’…)

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 1d

Restaurant for me

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 1d

I was a middle school kid when SNL happened.

I was that hyper-nerd who was curious about who wrote it - after I moved to CA there were friends who filled me in.

Names like Pell, Handy, and mostly Downey. Now this -

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMgF...

#snl #writing #nerdheaven

Downey Wrote That | Official Trailer | Peacock Original

YouTube video by Peacock

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 1d

A study in Nature Communications examines the relationship between musical rhythm skills and developmental speech-language disorders. The findings indicate that rhythm abilities may serve as a factor in the early identification of these disorders in children. go.nature.com/3WyI95Q 🧪

Fig. 1: All cohorts utilized in the present study are illustrated (left), with details about which rhythm traits were available within each cohort (center), spanning the following: self-reported rhythm abilities, rhythm perception (e.g., rhythm discrimination), rhythm production or synchronization (e.g., beat synchronization), and genetic predispositions for rhythm abilities (i.e., polygenic scores).

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 1d

I have a great job, but right now I have that 'headache behind my eyeball' thing and I'm ready to quit / retire / pack up my things and move to Wisconsin.

Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 1d

See - I thought it was Igneous People's Day... Sorry about that.

The Thing - Yes, I know he's not technically rock... but it's a joke.

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Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · 1d

Shutdown forces Medicare patients off popular telehealth and hospital-at-home programs
@timhenderson.bsky.social @stateline.org kentuckylantern.com/2025/10/12/r...

Shutdown forces Medicare patients off popular telehealth and hospital-at-home programs • Kentucky Lantern

The federal government shutdown is forcing a reckoning for two remote health care programs because they automatically expired Oct. 1.

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 1d

Mine have, luckily (?) turned into Box Storage Units... which is like a big, expensive box room, but somewhere else so I don't think about my boxes as much.

I miss some of my boxes.

Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 1d

Coincidentally last time I was there was for a wedding! Not enough time to go record shopping :) Lot's of great music-history vibes around there.

Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 2d

Respect fellow box room haver.

Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 2d

Enough pride / lack of total frustration that they’re intact and not wadded up into a ball, like I would have done.

That’s true artistic patience right there.

Gregory Possum-Jumpscarer @possumacquainter.bsky.social · 3d

came home from the grocery to find the four-year-old had littered the kitchen floor with his repeated attempts to draw a squirrel. real tortured artist hours

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Portland continues to amaze me 👏

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 2d

NB - I was a kid when this showed up in Dad’s collection. This was the Laugh-In era, and I was surprised Henry Gibson was on African percussion.

Right name, wrong instance.

Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 2d

Guessing @brianstack153.bsky.social has spent time @ Oar Folk. Or basically anyone in the early 80s who got to go to other Big 10 schools and was curious about ‘what do these guys listen to’

That city was on fire with music then.

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 2d

Perhaps it knows this album is in my collection-

www.discogs.com/master/27186...

I -am- thankful for that.

Eddie Harris - Instant Death

Explore songs, recommendations, and other album details for Instant Death by Eddie Harris. Compare different versions and buy them all on Discogs.

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Flip Phillips @flipphillips.com · 2d

I was going for "oatmeal" because I was in a hurry this morning and this trivial breakfast meant I could get out of house quicker.

But, you know, death works in many circumstances.

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