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A Just Recompense, , more info
Maya Binyam: Hangman (Picador 2023) [IBR2024] In the morning, I received a phone call and was told to board a flight. The arrangements had been made on my behalf. I packed no clothes because my clothes had been packed for me. A car arrived to pick me up. The radio announced traffic due to an accident involving a taxicab driver, a police officer, and a woman whose occupation the dispatcher did not care to identify. But …
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Rev Stan's theatre blog, , more info
Review: Ostan, Park Theatre - car washing and gaming in busy immigration play Serkan Avlik and Ojan Genc in Ostan, Park Theatre. Photo Jack Bush Arzhang Pezhman's play Ostan is set in a car wash where owner Shapur (Dana Haqjoo) employs asylum seekers. Rebin (Ojan Genc) doggedly chases progress on his application for indefinite leave while trying to train newbie Gorkem (Serkan Avlik)...
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Weekly Links, 09/20/2024 One showcase for AI gen video is to re-make trailers of famous sci-fi films. Here is the Fifth Element from the 1950s. The Fifth Element – 1950’s Super Panavision 70
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Journeyman's Journal, , more info
China’s Outstanding Craftsmen View this post on Instagram A post shared by mixdazzle (@mixdazzle) What more can be said about this. This is true craftsmanship
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Kate Macintosh talks to Thaddeus Zupančič, Part One 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 …
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Being a Tech Art Detective 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 …
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Granite Brewery X St. John’s Wort Fisher King ESB 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 …
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Wristwatch Roulette III of XII: Synoke DS 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 …
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Games and comics: Many Fingers, Octopus Pie, Don't Go Without Me, and Sylvie 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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STACK magazines - Editorial, , more info
Subscriber perks The post Subscriber perks appeared first on STACK magazines.
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The Law and Policy Blog, , more info
Political accountability vs policy accountability: how our system of politics and government is geared to avoid or evade accountability for policy 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 …
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Q&A: Nathan Knapp, Daybook 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 …
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The History of Parliament, , more info
‘History from above’ and ‘history from below’: the example of Philip Herbert, 4th earl of Pembroke, May to July 1641 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 …
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The Captive Reader, , more info
With the End in Mind – Kathryn Mannix 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 …