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Lately, I've been thinking about my inner compass — the one that guides me through work and daily life. I've touched on my design ethos before, but this feels like something more personal. It's a lightweight breakdown of who I am, both as a designer and a human, shaped by the values, mantras, principles, people, and quotes that influence what I create and how I try to live. But consider …

The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262546836, English, 288 pages, 2023, USA ‘The distinction between image capture and image creation is now increasingly blurred’, writes Joanna Zylinska in the introduction to The Perception Machine. This is already one of the pivotal arguments in the current debate on photography. Indeed, the digitisation of all visual elements and the computation that goes with it has transcended the definition and role of photography, which is …

To combat trespass on the line, a couple of scary locomotives with terrifying fibreglass faces have been bought in to scare small children and probably some adults away from the line. As they patrol the route, they emit an unnerving canned laughter sound which will make even the most hardened cry “Mummy mummy, please make those cackling hysterical voices go away, they remind me of when you locked us in …

In the spirit of experimentation, I’ve tried out something a bit different and that is a new format: I’ve put together a mini class that I hope you will enjoy: “Sharpen your observation with blind contour drawing” is all about quick and fun exercises to boost your observation skills and hand-eye coordination. In just 10 ... Read more Source

We preempt your regularly scheduled program… Originally, thisun was gonna be about me, your Old Uncle, turning my SeeStar S50, Suzie, and 10-inch Dob, Zelda, loose on the fall globulars chapter in UAG (“The Urban Astronomer’s Guide,” for the uninitiated). Then, as it sometimes does, everything—well, a couple of things—changed. Thanks to the kindness of a friend of mine, Jack Estes, who is also a longtime friend of this here …

Double Maths First Thing is guaranteed Christmas-free. Humbug! Hello! My name is Colin and I am a mathematician on a mission to find and spread mathematical joy. This week’s interesting bit of analysis (and please don’t tell Dave Gale I did some statistics), gives a plausible answer to a question on Hacker News: if a statistic (employee performance) is normally distributed, why would a company’s distribution be Pareto? I’m quite …

Mr Stan Hieronymus visited Ireland in September and I was happy to be able to meet for a couple of pints in Dublin shortly after he arrived. I was good enough to take a couple of cans which he had shipped over off his hands, to save him shlepping them around the country.First, and perhaps least remarkable, is the 2024 Sierra Nevada Oktoberfest, this year a collaboration with Gutmann of …

“Eärendil was a mariner that tarried in Arvernien; he built a boat of timber felled in Nimbrethil to journey in” There are two stories that were big inspirations for Union. One was Dune and the other was the Silmarillion. In the game you start with an end point, a singular character who did something important, and then work backwards to figure out who their ancestors are and where they came …

The versatility of olive: Anthology MTM in PS/Fox flannel Share Share this post Subscribe 9 Comments Wednesday, November 27th 2024Tags: SuitsAldenDrake'sFox Brotherssaman amelthe anthology ||- Begin Content -|| By Manish Puri. I’ve had my eye on a dark green suit for a long time. So when Simon very kindly offered me a length of the olive flannel that he’d collaborated on with Fox Brothers, I jumped at the chance. To …

Today, the Unit published Monitor 88, providing analysis of constitutional events over the last four months. This post by Meg Russell and Alan Renwick also serves as the issue’s lead article. It discusses how the government has stumbled in its early steps to restore public trust, failed to match rhetoric on parliamentary scrutiny with action, and hesitated to make reforms within parliament and the electoral system that it had previously …

“All is Fair in Love and War” - common saying“So many social, political, and also economic struggles — no matter what they may appear to be on the surface — are actually about who should rise and fall in status.” - Tyler CowenWe often work to seem neutral and fair in many areas of life. But when it comes to our most important areas, we usually drop this pretense and …

Sometimes (a lot of the time) I’ll look back at my blog posts and realize that there’s some really big thing I’ve been doing or working on that would have made for an interesting blog post, and while I might post about them on my socials, like Mastodon or Tumblr, I won’t ever remember to … Continue reading "Pixel Prints and Other Gaming Crafty Things"

The 1989 film Lean on Me portrays Eastside High School principal Joe Clark in Paterson, New Jersey rescuing a school mired in violence and poor academic performance. In one dramatic scene with actor Morgan Freeman playing Clark, over two hundred troublemakers are on the auditorium stage. The rest of the Eastside student body sit in the auditorium watching Clark quiet everyone including those students standing behind him. Facing the two-hundred …

Borbetomagus is a trio of Don Dietrich (reeds) Jim Sauter (reeds) and Donald Miller (guitar) and additionally Brian Doherty (electronics) Existing since the mid-seventies. This is free-improv "jazz" of the most extreme nature and its certainly not for the faint hearted, since heavy bone crushing walls of noise are their specialty.Yummy.That sounds like something I'd like, and something that any supreme court judge in a MAGA hat would eagerly pass …

Yes, Berlin has a hold on me. I’m going to be spending 2 1/2 weeks in the city. Why so long, and why only Berlin? One of my biggest regrets is I never moved there in my 20s. I feel like I’m past my so-called prime becoming an immigrant in my mid-40s. I’m a lot more inflexible in my needs and wants now than I was a couple of decades …