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Teenage Engineering OP-Z review: Small synth, big dreams

Read the fucking manual. It’s pejorative advice usually dispensed to someone struggling to find an answer — one typically available to them with minimal effort. The OP-Z from Teenage Engineering doesn’t ship with a full manual (though there is one…

The problem when taking photos for money

I’m a full-time photographer, I take photos for a living. It’s my main source of income. Its how I pay the rent, keep the lights on and put food on the table. The problem when you work for money, specifically…

How to Hardwire Your Happiness

If you’ve been reading/listening to AoM long enough, you likely know I describe myself as having a melancholic, Eeyore-like temperament. While I think those who know me would say I’m a generally friendly, good humored and hearted fella who has…

CERN lets you surf the web like it’s 1990

We take the relative seamlessness of the internet for granted these days — it’s easy to forget that surfing the web was once a fairly clunky and convoluted affair. But for those hankering for a bit of tech nostalgia —…