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‘NO WOMAN’S LAND’ has been awarded the prestigious 14th Carmignac Photojournalism Award and will be exhibited at the Réfectoire des Cordelieres in Paris this autumn. A few months ago, photojournalist Kiana Hayeri and researcher Mélissa Cornet travelled to the Mawoud Academy school in Kabul. It was a heavy journey – Hayeri had previously visited the school under heartbreaking circumstances. “I first reported on it for the New York Times after …

Last year, I joined the crowdfunding campaign for a neat little 7-inch, open hardware laptop called the MNT Pocket Reform. After much anticipation, I finally got it in the mail a couple days ago, and absolutely love it so far. Here are some first impressions. Why this device As someone who uses computers every day for work and life, I’ve gone through many devices over the years. I’ve taken old …

Welcome fans and devotees of old school mattes, models and clever trick photography. It's time once again for another giant of a blog post, and I do emphasize, giant! I never do these things by half-measures and always try to cover all possible bases when examining and illustrating these amazing hand rendered moments of movie magic.I have a vast collection of shots here, from a very broad cross section of …

Lower Inver morning view upstream from the Scrambles Over the years I have been privileged to fish in many beautiful places, but nowhere else moved me as much as these two small Highland rivers. As I walked up the Lower Inver on the Monday morning of our week, I found myself humming the song "Dancing Cheek to Cheek" from the 1930s musical Top Hat, produced and directed to showcase the …

I happened to look at a slide deck from Sandia National Laboratories from 2007 that someone had posted on Reddit late last night (you know, as one does, instead of sleeping), and one particular slide jumped out at me: It’s a little graphic advertising the different kinds of modeling software that are part of something called the SIERRA framework, as part of a pretty standard “overview” presentation on computer modeling …

Acknowledgements The code in this post is indebted (and in some cases wholly ripped off from) work by the glorious Finn Lindgren, who emailed me some code to do this probably a decade ago. Yes I am behind on my emails. Finn’s code can be found here as part of the glorious INLAbru project. Code availability The code from this post can be found in my github repo. The time …

Featuring sessions from Papa Wemba and Pavement.Listen HerePutters - Muscle Car (Empty)Pavement - Secret Knowledge Of Back Roads (Session)The Moles - What's The New Mary Jane (Ringers Lactate)Papa Wemba - Madilamba (Session)The Fall - Arid Al's Dream (Volume)Zubbizeretta - Don't You Do It (Bass Sphere)Kill Subil - Lucid (Empty)Babes In Toyland - Sometimes (Volume)Cobra - Hearse (Penthouse)Flophouse - Right Now (Harp)Pavement - Kentucky Cocktail (Session)Aquastep - Oempa Loempa Instrumental (Wonka …

Contributed by Stephen ColesSource: www.flickr.com Kit Karzen/Harris for President. License: All Rights Reserved. The Kamala Harris 2024 campaign identity, designed by Wide Eye Creative, is built around Sans Plomb, a condensed gothic not unlike the Bureau Grot used by Wide Eye for Harris’s 2020 primary bid – in turn inspired by Shirley Chisholm’s 1972 campaign. This time, though, the typeface is from a French foundry, rather than from Anglo-American origins …

Every year on the 24th October I've written a reflection on the last year of my independent consulting. This would have been my 10th issue, but is instead a special issue, for reasons that will become apparent.

What takes place once a year and involves me drinking large quantities of beer? Well, OK, it could be practically anything, admittedly, but, more specifically, it's the BV London Pub of the Year award. Yes, it's a painstaking process, visiting and revisiting pubs to determine which one is the best in the capital, but I've been doing it for well over a decade now and you can thank me later. …

hello all! no more art will be posted on this log/RSS feed; i’m merging/updating it to a new art blog powered by tegalog instead of wordpress. the new RSS link is not “quite” live yet because i haven’t transferred the domain, but will be live in the next month. please update your current RSS feed to the feed below: https://kradeelav.com/diary/tegalog.cgi?mode=rss& i will post one more update when it’s confirmed to …

The very mention of the village of Happisburgh in Norfolk brings to mind all manner of prehistoric associations and connections with long-extinct ancestors. The early years of this current century have revealed exciting local evidence of the presence of earliest hominins in northwest Europe: Homo antecessor (‘Pioneer Man’) – near million-year-old clues in the form … Continue reading "Of Whales and Ancestors: Ostend, Norfolk"

Whenever I publish something about my Python Docker workflows, I invariably get challenged about whether it makes sense to use virtual environments in Docker containers. As always, it’s a trade-off, and I err on the side of standards and predictability.

one thing about being away from the desk for a while is it resets your habits and relationships to your habits and you see them afresh from the outside, & this prompted me to ask 'when I feel this little stab of distress that prompts me to check reddit, where is that distress coming from? What is distressing me?' & I realised that for me at least, it's the context …

This is one of those things that I do so much but always need to think. So I’m going to create some documentation for myself, and maybe it’ll help others. Specifically, I’m going to setup an extern...