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Florian Scholz

@florianscholz.com

Director & Documentation D(a)emon @openwebdocs.org Cares about technical writing, the web platform, open source & open collectives, as well as post-punk and wave music. he/him. Bremen, Germany. florianscholz.com

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Florian Scholz @florianscholz.com · 03/02/2025

Collective co-working space in Bremen Woltmershausen is looking for new members! 166€/month. 128qm. 4-6 people. Gym, kickboxing and ceramic workshop in the same building. DM me if interested!

Co working space with large community table and room for bikes

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Florian Scholz @florianscholz.com · 01/02/2025

Let’s build our own timeline algorithms!! By Davide Eynard @aittalam.bsky.social fosdem.org/2025/events/...

Build your own timeline algorithm slide deck.

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Florian Scholz @florianscholz.com · 31/01/2025

On my way to Brussels. Let’s open source all the things and let‘s fight fascism. #fosdem

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Florian Scholz @florianscholz.com · 28/01/2025

New book in my shelf: Roentgenizdat: Vinyl records made on x-rays Titled „Bone Music“, written by Stephen Coates, tells the story of x-ray plates illegally created and distributed in the USSR to resist Soviet censorship. www.x-rayaudio.com TED talk: youtube.com/watch?v=49aW... #booksky #vinyl

Several vinyl records made from x-rays. Bones are visible.

Excerpt from the book:

ROENTGENIZDAT:
AN INTRODUCTION
A few years ago, while wandering in a market in St Petersburg, I came across a strange disc, somewhat like a scruffy vinyl record. My Russian companions were as baffled by it as I was and the old guy who ran the stall was much
more interested in selling me some touristy swag. But I bought it anyway and brought it back to London. When I tried to play it, I discovered it was single-sided, recorded at 78rpm, and contained the 1954 song Rock Around the Clock' by Bill Haley and the Comets. But the most remarkable thing was that, when held up to the light, it revealed the image of two skeletal hands. It was a record made on an x-ray.
I knew immediately that I had to find out more: who made it, why they made it, and how they made it. Seeking the answers to those questions became a quest, a journey of discovery into a lost world, in which cold war politics, cultural censorship, bootleg technology and repurposing all coalesced around the irrepressible human love of music.
From about 1946-64, years when culture in the Soviet Union was subject to a censor and when the recording industry was ruthlessly controlled by the state, an underground community of bootleggers defied the authorities by illicitly copying, making and selling records of forbidden songs. Some of them were music lovers, some were entrepreneurial black-marketeers; most were a mixture of the two. They often ran serious risks to feed the appetite of a public hungry for music they actually loved rather than the music they were supposed to love.

Book cover „Bone Music“ by Stephen Coates.

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Florian Scholz @florianscholz.com · 25/01/2025

David Lynch with a megaphone: "Okay, let'''s try that again, but this time good..."

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