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New film magazine Monochromator sets out to contextualize films in such a bold manner that even its editor-in-chief Alex Heeyeon Kil wonders whether it should be described as a film magazine. Alex is a writer and researcher who splits her time between Berlin and Seoul. She explains more about her beautiful new magazine Monochromator as she shares her influences and working week. What are you doing this Monday morning?Mornings are …

The Ware for September 2024 is shown below: This ware was a gift, but I won’t credit the donor until the solution is revealed, because the credit itself might give a clue about the ware. My first reaction to seeing this board is: “this thing has a high BOM cost”. My second thought is the engineers who put it together (hopefully) got a lot of free lunches and design advice …

Dirty old river, must you keep rolling, rolling into the night / People so busy, make me feel dizzy, taxi light shines so bright / But I don’t, need no friends / As long as I gaze on Waterloo Sunset, I am in paradise. Ray Davies (b.1944), Waterloo Sunset

An article I wrote for the Conversation on the release of the UN’s final report on governing AI for humanity. Read here

Guten Tag! Guten Tag! 👋Do you know that we might be able to transition to height: auto soon? Or what web features are now safe to use with the recent Safari 18 release? Ooooor… do you think the new QUERY HTTP method is a good idea? Turn on the Web Weekly tune and find all the answers below. Enjoy! Dariusz listens to "RAZ DWA TRZY - Trudno nie wierzyć w …

Portrait of Marthine Cappelen Hjort, b. Kiær, by Asta Nørregaard, pastel on canvas; roughly 48 x 33 inches (122 x 85 cm); link is to Wikimedia Commons; original is in the collection of the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo Norway, which has a zoomable and downloadable version of the image. This wonderful portrait by late 19th, early 20th century Norwegian artist Asta Nørregaard is one of those …

Aspens and Lodgepole Pines at DeMotte Campground north of the Grand Canyon. My film cameras and film stock.For a number of years I've been keeping a few rolls of film in my refrigerator. (Refrigerated film will last a long time without changing color.) You can see what I have -- three rolls of Fujichrome Provia in 35mm, a roll of 35mm Fujicolor 400, three rolls of Fujichrome Provia in 120 …

Kitchen sink dramas are filled with ideas about two worlds colliding, past and future most obviously, particularly the clash between the generation who fought the war and their contemporary now adult children who crave a different kind of life, as well as the consequent disillusionment as that bright freedom is replaced by the drudgery of […]

Mother Jones today has an excellent story on Arlie Russell Hochschild’s book “Stolen Pride.” This quote in particular: “We live in both a material economy and a pride economy, and while we pay close attention to shifts in the material economy, we often neglect or underestimate the importance of the pride economy. Just as the fortunes of Appalachian Kentucky have risen and fallen with the fate of coal, so has …

One more Japanese band to discover: Dida Dida Doo. I had forgotten about that very good compilation “Wheels Go Round” that had White Town’s track “Anal Sex”. Yeah. Do you know this compilation? It has this lovely, cute, artwork by Megumi Yoshimura and then you read the tracklist and the first track is that one. It is odd to say the least. A Trumpet Trumpet Records put out this 10 …

Our Mission Specialist for this episode is Benz Kotzen, a Professor at the University of Greenwich. He’s here to tell us about his FEEDING MARS project, which showcased a live experiment growing vegetables, herbs and fruits in Martian simulant soils, using fish effluents from an aquaponic system as fertilizer.

The film follows an extraordinary band of feisty grandmother warriors waging a spirited battle against vast oceanic threats. Often called real-life mermaids, the haenyeo divers of South Korea’s Jeju Island are renowned for centuries of diving to the ocean floor — without oxygen — to harvest seafood for their livelihood.

Here’s another in my series of ten year old photos, this time from September 2014. We were now fast approaching the November 2014 state election, as you’ll see in some of these snaps. Flinders Street Station’s clocks – if you look closely you’ll note some line names were modified as late as the 1990s (Cranbourne) but not since (St Albans, Broadmeadows). From this angle, Ikea at Springvale looks pretty impressive. …

“Lifer,” a new poem of mine, is published in the 17 October 2024 issue of the New York Review of Books. Please check it out! In other news, I’ll soon be leaving the derelict building where I’ve rented a writing studio for the past dozen years. The new owners plan to turn it into apartments. If you happen to have read Melville’s novel Pierre, you will have an idea what …

I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 10 licenses ($15 value each) for Moom. Whether you know it yet or not, window management on a Mac can change your computing life. Imagine being able to fly windows into organized dimensions and locations with the click of a button or the press of a key. Moom is the best app for managing windows that I’ve found, and I get lost without …