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Camera: Fujifilm XT-5 | TTArtisan 35mm lens.Location:https://w3w.co/lift.ships.inches One of my go to podcasts is The Emerald: Founded in May of 2019, The Emerald podcast explores the human experience through a vibrant lens of myth,...
ilLumi is an artist about whom I now very little, though likely a digital concept artist and illustrator, presumably from Japan. Most often whimsical, but sometimes straightforwardly realistic, the work often employs deep cotrasts...
Imagine you’re walking down a beach and find a watch. You pick it up, inspect its intricate mechanism, admire how precisely all the pieces fit together, and conclude that something so complex and precisely engineered couldn’t possibly...
Only one recording today, and I’m afraid its a repeat of The Simpsons – Bart the Murderer. Media Centre Description: Bart becomes involved with a group of mobsters, but things get messy when they start doing favours for him. Recorded...
Yesterday, I attempted to peer beyond the event horizon of a data export request I made of OpenAI — exactly a month ago — for my corpus of ChatGPT conversation threads from late 2022 to the present. Saw nothing but an immediate response...
If you are looking for any further evidence that Adam Smith is, deep down, a pragmatist, then check out paragraph 30 of the last part of Smith’s 1784 pamphlet, Additions and Corrections to the First and Second Editions of Dr. Adam...
Pukka prose by Patrick Syms. When I was three my family moved to Ramsgate. More specifically, to a farmhouse that overlooked Pegwell Bay. The end of our garden was steps away from the cliff edge. It would have been hard to live closer to...
Mark Zuckerberg, in a (much) longer version of an essay originally published last month in the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal: The defining questions of our age are who will have access to superintelligence and what will we...
[previously in series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]Paul Graham once said that every city sends a message. New York says you should make more money. Berkeley says you should live better. Boston says you should be smarter. People shouldn’t...
NASA set Mariner 9 to photograph Mars in 1971. The images had to be encoded for transmission using an error-correcting code, otherwise they would be significantly corrupted when they were received on Earth. The images were encoded for...
A sampler is supposed to be an index with music attached, a practical device for turning curiosity into sales. ECM’s eleven official sampler albums, issued between 1978 and 1982, are stranger objects. They advertise a catalogue,...
This was when mu materials collection was rather small. I had everything in one container. It got to a point where I had to devide my materials by type. This made it eaiser to find the materials I needed.
Nau maiYesterday we played at San Francisco Airport. At 8:30am we woke up to the bus pulling up outside door seven of the San Francisco Airport’s departures level. It was something of a miracle that they were able to accommodate a bus we...
Shot on Kodak UltraMax 400 with a Minolta X-700 Low afternoon sunlight rakes across a hardwood floor and through an open doorway, with bags hanging on a wall hook, a framed poster, a large houseplant, and raised dog bowls on a wooden stand.
This summer, I got to do a one-night camping trip to Van Buren State Park outside of South Haven, MI. I was also riding my bike. It's nearly 50 miles one way, which is no big deal if I'm just riding by myself. But, I had never strapped a...