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With this short story by Kathy Mirkin, we continue to highlight original fiction and poetry from writers who either published their first book at 40 or after, or who have yet to publish a book. Writers interested in submitting work should see our guidelines. John McMahon/Unsplash Ruby didn’t want to hear babies cooing or crying during her train ride home to Indiana. She didn’t want to see mothers toting sloppy …

Made by enslaved Black people using oyster shells from Indigenous middens, tabby concrete reflects the flow of centuries of capital, labor, and knowledge throughout the Atlantic World. Read on Places Journal

The renowned portrait photographer reflects on his work, his relationship to philosophers, and the nature of portraiture. Continue reading → The post What the Photographer Who’s Taken Hundreds of Philosopher Portraits Really Thinks of Philosophers appeared first on Aesthetics for Birds.

Some time ago, I realized my daughter had become too heavy to carry on my shoulders. I could still do it, but it’s no longer something I’d do trivially. She doesn’t ask for it anymore either, probably sensing it wouldn’t be a good idea. She still holds my hand, tho, and I try to hold hers when I can, until she grows old enough to think parents suck or something. …

The thing I love about the ISO paper sizes, and in particular the A-size papers is that A0 is the biggest, if fold that page over you have two A1 pages, if you fold one of them over (after cutting it) you have two A2 pages etc. So if you have an A4 printer it is really easy to print things on A4 and cut it down to work with …

This postcard brings back some memories. My paternal grandparents, Amos J. and Rosa Mae Wright are buried in Forrest Cemetery, as well as Beulah Vee Wright, my dad's older sister I never met. In the late 1950s and early 1960s during the summers I would get to visit my grandparents in Gadsden for a couple of weeks. Amos was still working as yard foreman for L&N Railroad, so Rosa Mae …

There’s only one month to go before our major exhibition Medieval Women: In Their Own Words opens. Running from 25 October 2024 to 2 March 2025, this exhibition tells the history of medieval women through their own words and uncovers their lives through manuscripts, documents and precious artefacts. Tickets for...

Sometime last year, I started seeing a lot of mentions of Walmart’s Pen + Gear notebooks on Instagram. It seemed a little odd to me that people would be getting all excited about a very basic spiral notebook, but supposedly they were fountain pen friendly! So the next time I was at a Walmart, of … Continue reading Notebook Review: Pen + Gear Memo Book and Journal →

It's that melancholy time of life when every so often you wonder, "who's going to be next out of my contemporaries, all the people I've known, to go?". Today's answer is Achim Szepanski, founder of Mille Plateaux and its sister-labels Force Inc and Riot Beats (to name just a few). Through these imprints Achim put out so many cool records between the early '90s and early 2000s - artists like …

When you have more money than god, but helping other humans doesn’t feel luxury enough. Would visit though, ngl

I wanted my old life back... but it was going to take time. And I faced the dreaded post-treatment tests. Continue reading →

MARKUS GUENTNER - KONTRAPUNKT Ever since his first releases - Regensburg in 2000 and In Moll in 2001 - Markus Guentner has developed his own personal style: 'deep, atmospheric and textured music, characterized by subtle but intense arcs of harmony and melody'. That style is the connecting factor on his recent Kontrapunkt release, even if all of the eight tracks were created in collaboration with different artists - each bringing …

I pushed an update to Stupid today that features a theme inspired by Jacques Monneraud‘s ceramic work. Best if viewed on a phone.

Bombergirls Developer: Mint (they did sound composition, at least…) Publisher: Intec Release Date: February 25th, 1995 Available On: Super Famicom Genre(s): Maze Game + Action = Maze Action It’s trickier to put a spin on the Bomberman formula than you might think. Add too much and the action becomes difficult to parse or so unpredictable that player skill matters less, but add too little and it just feels like you’re …

This Is Serious Early 'Mumblecore'Dance Party, USA [2006], the debut from Aaron Katz, depicts an early-20-something/late-teens house party, and all the house parties out there, all the Americas within the United States. As such Katz's film's title hits all the spots. (I don't remember this program at all though I had to have seen some of it: "Dance Party USA is an American dance television show that aired daily on …