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The Challenge: Beverages. Make something to drink.The Recipe: Claret cup from Lady Elinor Fettisplace's Receipt BookTo Make Claret Wine WaterTake a Quarte of strong aquavitae, as much of goode Claret wine, a pound of the beste sugar, beat yr sugar small, then powre the wine and the aquavitae to the sugar and stir the sugar and the wine togather untill yr sugar be dissolved, then ad to it whigt pep, …

Imagine you’re on the hunt for a new sweater and decide to visit a local clothing store. Upon arrival, you engage with Tom, an enthusiastic new employee who began working there last week. You inquire about the sweater selection, and he’s eager to help, providing prompt responses. As this unfolds, Clarice, the store owner, approaches. With genuine concern, she inquires if everything is okay. You affirm that it is, expressing …

Hello, friend.I know, I know... it's been a minute since I've had a proper entry after my end-of-the-year "Things I Like" post. I'm still figuring out what I want to reshape my little corner of the internet into.My initial intent with Makoism was to share a few links and ideas; it has organically morphed back into a proper newsletter/blog. While I aim to keep these together, I still need to …

via Peter Stanfield Watch The Looking Cure - a mini-doc about John Hofsess's Palace of Pleasure - made by Stephen Broomer.“See it and you’ll see a window on the future: a Joyce-Burroughs assemblage of bold, poetic surreal visions of physical love in every conceivable form." - Gene YoungbloodAs Broomer writes in CineAction (the full essay reproduced here): Hamilton's McMaster University of the mid-1960s had a thriving campus art scene. The …

Let us posit a simplification, which will hopefully seem less arbitrary and less reductive as we further describe it. The simplification is this: that the two poles of concern, when it comes to what we call “art,” are the production of pleasure and the production of models. This is a bit what Gabriel Duquette has touched upon in calling “maps” and “chords” the building blocks of a work. The maps …

Today’s reflection is from Bondings 2.0 Contributor, Angela Howard McParland. Today’s liturgical readings for the 4th Sunday of Ordinary Time can be found here. Pope Francis recently said that he hoped hell was empty. “It’s difficult to imagine it,” the pope said. “What I would say is not a dogma of faith, but my personal thought: I like to think hell is empty; I hope it is.” In so much …

Thanks to the diligent and hard work of Clonehenge, we have a really good understanding of Stonehenge replicas and pastiches from across the world. There are a surprisingly large number of these, over 100 (!!), from complete and partial replications of the original monument itself, to installations and structures inspired by those (in)famous trilithons in a range of different materials. “Clonehenge covers replicas and models of Stonehenge from the sublime …

Following up from the previous installment. Redacted Reports (Amended)Apparently the end of Season 6 was one of the scripted bits, which is very disappointing: I think it was a really lame way to end a certain character's arc, and knowing it was entirely avoidable is a major let down. I was correct in predicting a move to King in Yellow content, but Season 7 is not Impossible Landscapes, and after …

January’s warm spell came to an abrupt end with a week of sub freezing weather. Then it started to snow Tuesday evening, January 16. By Wednesday morning we were blanketed with snow. So this winter will not be a snowless winter after all. An alien seeing a rabbit footprint in the snow is liable to go looking for a three legged creature. You could almost say that rabbits draw pictures …

It is painful, but it is beginning to work :On the picture a RP2040-pico zero running lnBMP and happily debugging a ch32v307 Riscv chip(of course it can still debug Arm chips)Perigoso did a lot of work there, only the communication protocol /implementation was missing.It is still a bit slow though :(

Aldermaston Wharf is a lively spot on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Berkshire; ABC hireboats operate from there, and these rather fine tea rooms, that I've just done this picture of. There's prints of it over in my Etsy shop, and it's one of six postcards in my latest set.

To mark the occasion of his double-bill exhibition at both the Bury Street and Helmet Row galleries of Modern Art in London, Ron Nagle had his nails done. Specifically, just his thumbnails: black on his right, pale pink on his left. Nagle, who is 84, could not travel to London for the opening, so on […]

Later this year I’ll be talking at Patterns Day. Jeremy asked me to weave responsive typography into his narrative of the day. How do I explain something as all-encompassing as typography within something so potentially granular as a design system? Read more.

Paul III was the last pope to seriously imagine that the second great schism in the history of Christianity could be healed, that a peaceful way could be found to bring Protestants back home to the Catholic Church. In 1536, as Michelangelo was beginning the painting of the Sistine Chapel’s altar wall in Rome and Henry VIII was executing his second wife in London in order to make space for …

I must have said this before but I will say it again, if you live anywhere near to London and you are into geotech, maps or location influenced applications then you should give Geomob a try. I’d offer you a money back guarantee but as it’s free that isn’t necesary but more on that later. On Wednesday night (24th Jan 2024) we had nearly a hundred people attending what truly …