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Anthony Nelzin-Santos
Reading, writing, walking. Not (always) at the same time.
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I was leafing through a collection of George Orwell’s essays when i stumbled upon this gem from “Looking back on the Spanish War”:I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that...
A few months into my new role, the biggest change has nothing to do with the job itself. It’s that i can’t listen to music while working. Even though most of my team works remotely, i work a few days a week with some of my colleagues –...
This week came and went in a blur. I hadn’t realized how much i’d missed being on the creative side of things. Don’t get me wrong — i love managing my team of designers and planning our overall strategy. But i missed being in the thick...
I enjoy repairing typewriters, but the Olivetti Lettera 36 tested my patience. It’s what’s commonly referred to as an “electric typewriter”, but should really be called an “electro-mechanical typewriter”. From the outside, it looks like...
The sudden change of ambiance in a street within the space of a few metres; the evident division of a city into zones of distinct psychic atmospheres; the path of least resistance which is automatically followed in aimless strolls (and...
This blog wouldn’t exist if not for Manuel Moreale. I don’t remember how i stumbled upon his blog, but i remember being crestfallen that my “the homepage is the latest article” idea wasn’t as original as i thought. The more i read him,...
The books i’ve never even considered reading. The guitars i’ve barely touched these past few years. The vintage computers i’ve never restored. The fountain pens i’ve hoarded by the drawerful. If i don’t need these things, then why is it...
The wireless page-turning Kobo Remote is an absolute piece of junk. It’s made of not one but two of the worst kind of plastics you can hold — a sweat-inducing smooth plastic on top and a grime-attracting grainy plastic on the bottom....
Some people spend their holidays at the beach. Some people spend their holidays in the mountains. Some people spend their holidays in the countryside. I spend my holidays in museums.People think of the museum as a rainy-day fallback, but...
My new employer provided me with a beast of a laptop… that runs on Windows 11. I’ve been using computers for 32 years, i’ve been writing about computers for half my life, and yet, i feel like a complete beginner. I’ve had to use Windows...
For over fifteen years, i’ve been photographing storefronts to document a rapidly fading typographical tradition. These “architypes” inform my practice as a budding typeface designer, but i don’t want to selfishly keep them for myself....
I’m beginning to think that you should ignore travel guides entirely. Take Marseille, France’s second city after Paris and before Lyon. Everybody tells you to visit Notre-Dame de la Garde, a basilica built in the 19th century at the top...
I love typewriters. I love digital music. I love taking photos. I love technology. I love cycling. I love history. I love bookbinding. I love e-books. I love walking. I love vintage cameras. I love writing. I love architecture. I love...
Can you “learn any language fast and never forget it” thanks to the Fluent Forever method? I’ve read Gabriel Wyner’s book and intend to find out. Instead of focusing on grammar, it emphasizes early mastery of pronunciation with deep...
“There’s a particular kind of guilt that visits me when I open my feed reader after a few days away”, Terry writes in their recent post, and then goes on wondering why most RSS readers look like email clients. NetNewsWire might have been...