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This week and next, I’m very pleased to feature this interview between my good friend Thaddeus Zupančič and Kate Macintosh, the esteemed architect of Dawson’s Heights housing estate in south London (1966-72), the Grade II-listed sheltered housing Macintosh Court (1969-72), also in south London, and Weston Adventure Playground in Southampton (with her life partner George Finch, RIBA Award 2005). These are her best-known projects, but while working for county architects …

This is a talk I gave for the Toulouse Game Dev Master Class. I talk about my methods of discovering cool game art tricks (which I then document on this blog) by asking around, doing research, using mod tools or injecting into the rendering process with Intel GPA, RenderDoc or NVIDIA NSight. I didn’t embed the video directly to avoid any tracking from Google and complications with the DSGVO. I …

I’ll be honest with you. I don’t like my Birthday. September 9th has more often than not been the first day of school. Monday, Tuesday. Didn’t matter. Sometimes it would be on the weekend before, but the odds were that my Birthday signalled the first day of school. It always felt like they were telling me to get on with it. As I’m riding to The Granite, early in the …

What’s this; Now/Then? # If you’ve just joined us, welcome to my series: Wristwatch Roulette, where I furnish my forearm with two fancy finds a fortnight, from fan-favourite Ali Express, market of choice for my 2023 series Shenzhen Safari, and 2024 series Shenzhen Sojourn. Hello you//I love you # The duality inherent in manly, womanly, and beastly endeavours is not lost on Synoke. Perhaps this idea fuelled the spawning of …

Bonus Level: A Hand With Many Fingers July 6, 2024 A short and satisfying card-catalogue-em-up about a real-world CIA conspiracy. Only takes a couple hours to play. I think the gameplay is fundamentally the same concept as Her Story, except walking around to fetch print fragments from file boxes instead of driving a search box to find video fragments in a computer. Meredeth Gran — Octopus Pie Eternal (comics) July …

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24 September 2024 Over at Bluesky, the German writer and historian Helene von Bismarck, an acute observer of British politics, posted this interesting question: “One question I have been asking myself for many years about UK politics: Why does it – regardless of who is in government – appear to be this hard to solve problems & get things done? Schools, the NHS, defence procurement, etc. Lack of money, you …

Daniel Davis Wood interviews Nathan Knapp. Nathan Knapp’s début novel, Daybook, is fiendishly difficult to encapsulate: it’s a novel of philosophical and moral depth, of stylistic ambition and assuredness, of biting humour, self-exposure, and extraordinary emotional intelligence. It’s a very contemporary novel, moving from the ethics of livestreamed interactive pornography to the effects of Covid-19 lockdowns on love between intimate partners, and it packs in much more than you’d expect …

Guest blogger Dr Fraser Dickinson uses the events surrounding Philip Herbert, 4th earl of Pembroke, between May and July 1641, to illustrate the interaction between the paradigms of ‘history from above’ and ‘history from below.’ The past is often viewed as being either ‘history from above’ (the ‘great man theory’ of history), or ‘history from below’ (the Marxist emphasis on economic and social forces). Of course, any astute practitioner knows …

How do we prepare for death? Whether it is our own or a loved one’s, most of us in the Western world have no idea what to expect at the end or who to talk to about what physically will happen, and, in lives where we are used to feeling informed and in control, that is terrifying. With the End in Mind by Kathryn Mannix, published in 2017, seeks to …

It’s the autumn equinox and so we reach that time in the year when the darkness begins to take over from the light. I find the dark winter nights increasingly difficult so I have to try instead to celebrate what is good at this time of year. Harvesting is continuing, slowly but surely. We have, at last, had a few ripe tomatoes, pictured here with a sprinkling of garlic chive …

As foretold by prophecy, you the people have once again declared DNA Lounge to be "Best Nightclub", and Hubba Hubba Revue to be "Best Burlesque" in the 2024 Best of the Bay! Also "Best Pizza" runner-up for DNA Pizza, and "Best Dance Party" runner-up for Death Guild. Thank you again for your support! We've got a busy week coming up... We've got midget wrestling (seats are nearly sold out), a …

BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Desk Accessory 1.2 has been released: wifi_da-1.2.sit (StuffIt 3 archive) SHA256: 984935cc5e3e25102849cd41c52764cb08060d183d48cfb49f9da3eead49aea8SHA1: 980b17f58babb839977b7d714f8556a82bf33c7e Changes in this version: Added an "(Other Network)" option to the SSID list to manually enter a hidden SSID

MARIE: A TRUE STORY (1985), also known simply as MARIE, was released on Blu-ray last month by the Warner Archive Collection.Sissy Spacek plays the title role in this real-life story. As the movie begins, Marie Ragghianti leaves an abusive marriage to Dave (Vincent Irizarry) and takes her three young children to live with her mother (Collin Wilcox Paxton).Marie juggles college with a job and after graduation asks a former school …

Thandii “It Only Takes 2” Thandii are funk minimalists in the tradition of ESG and Liquid Liquid, though I think their grooves come out feeling less tightly wound and neurotic. “It Only Takes 2” in particular strikes me as being like if Swim-era Caribou made an 80s freestyle song. The stark arrangement keeps your ear focused on the most functional elements of the groove, but it also implies a sweaty, …