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British film critic David Thomson interviews Greil Marcus on the occasion of his recent book, Why I Write. Courtesy of Yale University Press.

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As part of wrapping up the work I’m doing toward a PhD, I realized the other day that I’d never actually compiled anything like a comprehensive bibliography, and that it’s well past time I fixed that. Here, then, is a reasonably complete roundup of things I’ve published in all the years since I was SPIN‘s worst and most teenaged staff writer, back at the tail end of the foul Eighties. …

In today’s attention economy, authors and publishers are competing not only with each other, but also with the many distractions of life 一 from streaming platforms to social feeds. Book covers have long played a vital role in driving sales by appealing to the book’s target audience. Yet now more than ever, they’re an author and publisher’s best chance to compel people to stop what they’re doing and find out …

Following on from my previous article I added GPS1 (well, GNSS) to my tiny drone – the Meteor 75 Pro. I wanted to add GPS so I could make use of GPS rescue in betaflight as well as see the altitude, speed and distance in the OSD.

Bronx Zoo, New York, NY, 2024

Some of the most impressive churches and historical sites are found along the Camino de Santiago routes that twist through the length of Europe. While tourists and pilgrims alike will be drawn to the grand cathedrals on the Camino de Santiago, I find the most special places are the tiny chapels, churches, and unplanned hidden...

I’m not sure if this will ever see the light of day, but what the hell, I’ll do it here in case I can turn it into a proper write up. At the moment, I’m only concerned with emulating Ed’s ‘multi’ workflow. If I get that working, I’ll hopefully have a leg up on implementing the other modes. Also, I’m assuming we’re working with an unset tempo to begin with. …

Pre-made "skinny" stones being bulked with foam. Inspector Vulture approves.Shaped and coated with joint compound over paper mache'.Painted black and dry-brushed white.While I have several ideas for scratch-built monuments, this was another year to simply "bulk out" premade stones to give them more heft and believability. It is a simple process of building up the back and base of the stone with additional foam then coating with paper mache' and …

Principal Component Analysis, or PCA, is a fundamental dimensionality reduction technique using in Machine Learning. The general goal is to transform a -dimensional problem into a -dimensional one, where is smaller than . This can be used, for instance, to plot large dimensional data on a 2D or 3D plot, or to reduce the number of features in an effort to eliminate random noise in a machine learning problem (made …

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generative systems and the content deficit Brochure: Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) 1970s Gift of the William Hough Collection Collection of SFO Museum 2007.011.285 Last week I spoke at the 2024 Museum Computer Network (MCN) conference in Lawrence, Kansas. The talk was an elaboration on some of the closing slides in the presentation that I did for a Museum Studies class at USF earlier this year. As usual it felt like …

The one where Sara wrote a post for CSS-Tricks 🧡🎉

Welcome to Improv 101 Many guitarists view improvising over chord changes as the unobtainable holy grail of their guitar journey. But it doesn’t need to be that way. It took me 30 years to crack the code, and now that I can see the path clearly, I want to illuminate it for you. Every guitar player can learn to improvise. The problem isn’t you—it’s the way this stuff is usually …

The Map House, a wonderful gallery in Knightsbridge in central London which is itself over 100 years old, has just launched a month-long exhibition specifically