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thejaymo:Turning Brownfields to Blooming Meadows, With the Help of Fungie360: How did the sites look different after the work that you did on them?Stevenson: They became basically beautiful meadows of native plants that were flowering, and now there are bees and birds and all sorts of life coming through. We had a very high success rate. In three months we saw a more than 50 percent reduction in all [petrochemical] …

This review was first published at Splice in October 2018. *** Meet Keiko Furukura. She has always found it difficult to conform to what her family and wider society consider “normal”. She once stopped a fight between a group of boys at primary school by hitting one of them over the head with a spade. She couldn’t understand what was wrong with this: “Everyone was saying to stop them, so …

Enemies to Lovers by Laura Jane WilliamsPublished: 15th August 2024 by Penguin BooksEnemies to Lovers by Laura Jane Williams is a sweet, fun read that I lapped up, especially given the perfectly matched setting—I read it on a beach in Greece, just like the characters’ family holiday destination! The novel is a delightful blend of summer vibes, humour, and romance that will satisfy any reader.As the name suggests, the plot …

This 1969 Ballantine edition of Clarke's celebrated 1953 novel is a curio. The cover art (the artist is uncredited, but may have been Dean Ellis) has taken the actual subject of the book—the coming of mysterious aliens to Earth to usher in a utopian new age, in order that a generation of ESP-gifted children can be born and grow safely to adulthood, so as to usher-in the next phase in …

Harnessing heat and pressure from deep underground to produce geothermal power is having a moment. Demand for electricity to support cryptocurrency mining and artificial intelligence endeavors is increasing enormously—by some estimates, data centers could double their current consumption and use up to 9% of total electricity generated in the United States by 2030. Meeting this increased energy demand with renewable, clean energy will require multiple power generation technologies. Fortunately, new …

The post August ’24 Studio Update appeared first on Schliefkevision - Paintings & Art Classes. Work on my series of paintings inspired by Greek mythology has been progressing at a decent clip. I estimate there’s probably only about a half or third of all the canvases I’ll paint even started at this point, but it feels like an exciting and fresh start to this body of work. The progress has… …

When it comes to interim stages of game dev, I am a bit of a packrat. I have paper maps from when I was doing Ultima Online, and UI sketches for Star Wars Galaxies… of course, for my current thing, Stars Reach, I have a whole pile of images and videos going back to the very earliest days of the project. I mention this because we just posted up a …

Remember when bookseller and collector Paul Dobish discovered that the Stanley McNail poetry collection Something Breathing was bound in two variants of green cloth? “Until recently,” Paul tells me, “all of the copies of the Arkham House first edition that I had handled were in either of two green bindings. “I just acquired — because it had a review slip with it — a copy in a third green binding. …

My new book, Be Extraordinary: Philosophical Advice for Photographic and Other Artists is now available for purchase and immediate download. (Note that you may also purchase the book from ebook sellers, such as Amazon, Google, or Apple Books. However, if you purchase the ebook directly from my website, you will receive both an EPUB version to use with your e-reader, and a PDF version with high-resolution images, formatted to match …

Still alive – still feeling ropy, although at least all the chest infections and so on have cleared up. I’ve still been left with a cough that’s just hanging around the back of my throat, and which causes the coughing up of lumpy green – not from the lungs, thankfully, but it’s still fairly grim. It is easing – although the most recent course of medication has done absolutely sod-all …

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Dr. Smogg is a rich bitch industrialist who made his fortune in heavy manufacturing. Still, his methods are wasteful and produce many toxic by-products, which he disposes of in environmentally irresponsible ways. His next scheme is to pump massive amounts of toxic smog into the atmosphere from the smokestacks of his factory. Once airborne, the pollution will condense into solid waste particles and rain down upon the unsuspecting countryside. Fortunately, …

Dating coach, oatmeal lover, and raging misogynist: Casey Zander is all three. Actually, it’s not clear he’s a dating coach exactly, as his alleged wisdom on the woman question is so bleak and hateful that he may be driving young men away from the dating scene instead of providing them a reliable guide to it. Come for Casey’s “Oatmeal Story,” stay for his toxic advice. Bonus Quest: See if you …

At the end of September I'm doing a talk about PowerPoint for the members of a fancy club. Not quite sure why. To keep my eye in, mostly. But since I've got to put the talk together anyway it seems a shame not to share it with more people, so I thought I'd try an online version for all y'all. It's going to be at 7PM (UK time) on October …

I covered Showtime’s marvelous film noir series, Fallen Angels, in my second volume. This anthology show delivered six episodes in the summer of 1993, followed by another nine in the autumn of 1995. Each playlet was adapted from a story by a famed noir author, and was blessed with a phenomenal attention to detail appropriate to post-World War II Los Angeles: a heavily stylized depiction of the city populated by …