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Yesterday I went to the Barons Court Theatre and saw Jean-Luc Lagarce’s I Was in the House and I Was Waiting for the Rain to Come, which is staged as part of this venue’s ambitious Voila! Theatre Festival, an annual event featuring multidisciplinary, multilingual and multicultural performance celebrating both British and European creatives. Although Lagarce is unknown in this country, he is a big name in France with many productions …

Local filmmaker Matt Ognibene has a new video on the Charlie Card Challenge – an unsanctioned 6-mile road race against the Green Line along the length of the B branch, from Boston College to downtown’s Park Street station. The Charlie Card Challenge was a bigger challenge this year thanks to the T’s year-long track improvement program, which eliminated 10 slow zones along the B branch since last fall. We won’t …

The Architects’ Journal Bell Phillips, SimpsonHaugh and Hawkins\Brown get go-ahead for Manchester homes Three schemes in Manchester by Hawkins\Brown, SimpsonHaugh and Bell Phillips with 5 Plus, which together will deliver 1,500 new homes, have been approved by the city council The post Bell Phillips, SimpsonHaugh and Hawkins\Brown get go-ahead for Manchester homes appeared first on The Architects’ Journal Gino Spocchia

It’s weird to me that after I urged everyone not to disable form controls, a bunch of them decided that making them read-only was somehow better. But here we are. What’s in the box? Photo by Michael Heiss, no edits, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. HTML The readonly attribute is only allowed on text fields (<input> and <textarea>). The WHATWG HTML specification for devs argues that making other controls (buttons, checkboxen) read-only …

*He’s a busy guy. https://design-milk.com/artist-olafur-eliassons-new-psychoacoustic-exhibition/ The post What Olafur Eliasson is up to lately appeared first on Artmaker Blog.

In martial arts and other combat sports, the importance of rules has a deep-rooted ethical and philosophical foundation directly proportional to the violence of the sport itself. The stronger the athlete can hit, the more solid and respectable his figure appears in relation to the control he has, using force only if, and when, it is appropriate. When you fight you don’t just have an enemy in front of you, …

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I’ve been down in an audio plugin rabbit hole lately. More on that in a later blog post. But I just stumbled upon a set of free plugins that might be of interest to you, if you are doing voice recordings of any kind – be it a podcast, voice over, or, let’s say, video tutorials. There are, of course, many more free plugins for that use case. Again, I …

A poster promoting 'The Thief of Bagdad' (1924).Is Thanksgiving is all about giving thanks for abundance?If so, I can't think of a better silent film to prepare one for the upcoming holiday than 'The Thief of Bagdad' (1924), an epic adventure/fantasy starring Douglas Fairbanks Sr.I'll accompany a 100th anniversary screening of 'Thief' on Tuesday, Nov. 26 (two days prior to Turkey Day) at the Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline, Mass.More …

One of the (many) problems with old age is that things that were once considered an annoyance, eventually become big enough problems that they need to be fixed. Such a malady has finally caught up with me. For years I boasted that I have never had surgery. I reached the age of 66 back in […]

So comics artist Ron Randall spoke a bit about working with Alan Moore on Saga of Swamp Thing #33 from the mid-1980s. So if you click on the pic above, or on this link right here, you’ll be whisked away to a thread of posts on Bluesky where Mr. Randall has nothing but good things to say about the experience. Issue #33 is, of course, this one: …in which they …

I was familiar with the sightings in both Hudson Valley, NY in the '80s and those in Belgium (2:10-19:30) in the '90s. What I didn't know was that there were hundreds of sightings at each over the years. In Hudson Valley, entire towns (and their respective police forces) witnessed a variety of giant boomerang shaped UFO's on a regular basis; a decade later, civilians, police, radar and even F-16's repeatedly …

In an age when many of us could hardly make our way to an unfamiliar grocery store without relying on a GPS navigation system, we might well wonder how the Romans could establish and sustain their mighty empire without so much as a proper map. That’s the question addressed by the Historia Militum video above, “How Did Ancient People Travel Without Maps?” Or more to the point, how did they …

November 22, 2024 It’s snowing like the end of the world here in Chicago – I’m very happy! Of course, it will last an hour, and then melt… sigh… More heroines than you might expect are committed to wearing navy, grey, and accent colors that vary with the seasons. I hear from you often, and I can entirely agree that your choice is an elegant and pretty foolproof way to …