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If, like me, you missed out on A Day at the Races, the Letterheads meet hosted by Peter and Sue Anthony in June, this short video from the Horton Arts Centre is a tiny sampling of what went down.Letterheads 2024 on YouTube.This extended playlist then has more from some of the folks that travelled from all over the world to attend this major gathering in Epsom, Surrey.Letterheads 2024 playlist on …

I didn’t post the wood inlay Mastodon logo pins I made a couple years ago but, they came out so well that I periodically think of other things that would make good pin designs. In the spirit of the season and, since I rarely get around to the “spooky season” projects I envision these days, I made some skull pins inspired by my old Godar Blot design.There are two variants: …

Moon Window by Jane Louise Curry, 1996. Joanna Ellen Briggs (usually called JoEllen or Jo) lost her father five years ago, when he died in a car accident. Since then, it’s just been her and her mother. Jo has adjusted to the loss, and she and her mother have been happy together. At least, that’s what Jo keeps telling herself. Now, her mother is getting remarried, and Jo feels like …

I spoke with Brian Stout over at popMATTERS about New Freedom Sound. One way to approach making music is to make a sound that’s reminiscent of something you love, trying to play in a genre. Another is to try to make music that sounds like what we aren’t yet able to hear, to be the guy who comes up with something we haven’t heard. New Freedom Sound is a chance …

We specialize in introducing foresight to people and organizations to foresight at the University of Houston Foresight program. We’ve been on a somewhat maniacal quest to find ways to improve the applications and results of foresight work. In the feedback we get about our work, we often hear something along the lines of some participants […] The post The Comfort Trap in Foresight first appeared on Hinesight....for Foresight.

Photographs from section 6 of London’s Capital Ring hiking route.

Present and Correct is not just a meticulously presented stationery store, but also a fantastic old school blog, a curatorial treasure trove of the kind that was practically extinguished by the rise of social media. A must visit / see … Continue reading →

Trying to keep track of everything happening in the Langlands program area of mathematics is somewhat of a losing battle, as new ideas and results keep appearing faster than anyone could be expected to follow. Here are various items: Dennis Gaitsgory was here at Columbia yesterday (at Yale the day before). I don’t think either lecture was recorded. Attending his lecture here was quite helpful for me in getting an …

“Skyler Graham is a co-teacher apprentice at Ember Charter Schools. She currently teaches high school English and social studies.” This article appeared in Chalkbeat, September 30, 2024. As the back-to-school season unfolded in New York, the city’s teachers set up their classrooms how they usually do: by putting up posters, reading through curriculums, sharpening pencils, and, for roughly a decade, charging Chromebooks. These lightweight laptops have become a staple of …

I often hang a Little Trees air freshener in my car called "True North," and after a long workday, I find its crisp, snowy, slightly piney aroma soothing. It’s one of the longer-lasting Little Trees scents and smells more authentically pine-like than the classic green tree, which always reminds me of a rubber Halloween mask. Whenever I catch a whiff of "True North," I wonder if it’s cold, foresty

The Truth About Harry Beck, a play about the designer of London’s iconic Tube map, is at the London Transport Museum’s Cubic Theatre through January. Writer and director Andy Burden spent years working on the play. So far reviews have been mostly positive: Theatre Vibe’s Lizzie Loveridge found it “charming,” Everything Theatre “warm,” and Broadway World calls it “as reassuring as a comfy pair of slippers,” whereas The Arts Desk’s …

In mid-June I caught COVID-19 for, I'm pretty sure, the first time. The current dominant variants are transmissible enough that they got past my defenses. I believe I caught the virus either while wearing an …

Sixty-two years ago on Thursday (Oct. 3), Wally Schirra lifted off on his Mercury mission wearing his personal wristwatch, a newly-released 2nd-generation Omega Speedmaster. Though he could not know it at the time, his choice led to six-decade-long legacy of Omega watches flying in Earth orbit and beyond. Now, a new "The First Omega in Space" Speedmaster honors that history by combining heritage details with a modern calibre.

Read part one: Building Bonfire Native Apps with LiveView Native With our initial mockups complete, we were eager to start coding in LiveView Native (LVN). There are two primary ways to debug an iOS app: using Xcode or LVN Go. LVN Go is an application available on macOS, iPad, and iPhone that allows you to test a LiveView Native app directly on a device by pointing it to the Phoenix …

The Art of the Personal Project is a crucial element to let potential buyers see how you think creatively on your own. I am drawn to personal projects that have an interesting vision or that show something I have never seen before. In this thread, I’ll include a link to each personal project with the artist statement so you can see more of the project. Please note: This thread is …