Hi I'm Jeff. These are links to neat things I found on the internet.
Wow
Hey everybody! Damn that was a long hiatus. I'm still doin' the thing where we try to keep calm and carry on, but WOW it's been a year. I hope you've all made it through, and I hope you and those you care about are all happy and healthy. Anyway, I guess I'll try to get back to some links, but if I'm not prolific it's not becaseu I don't love you!
Refik Anadol: “Embedding media arts into architecture and machine intelligence for public art”
Liuyuan Lange on art station.
“Awaken is a feature film exploring humanity’s relationship with technology and the natural world” -A FILM BY TOM LOWE
Carolina Rodríguez Fuenmayor on Instagram. Prints available here.
Pierre Roussel concept artist and illustrator.
MUZINABU on tumblr
Spera Comics look interesting
Asher Levitus Planet Mu.
Venkatesh Rao’s pandemic reading list is interesting.
Marshmallow Laser Feast experiential art collective.
Kutiman on Instagram.
Rolling Realms is an infinitely scaling, roll and write game that you can download and play for free.
Big list of free games for COVID19-house-bound people looking for a fun diversion.
Got Your Back has video call backdrops for you to download and use.
Kai Yan’s photos are breathtaking.
Jukebox by openAI.
Hey everybody. I hope you're staying safe and healthy.
Blondieandrye are baking beautiful things on intstagram.
Like Roots in the Soil looks like an interesting little game.
Andy’s working notes is Andy Matischak thinking out loud about note taking.
Ben Hatke is very talented.
Bokehm0n on Instagram
Well Now WTF? is a GIF art show.
The Meteoriks: Demoscene awards.
The Social Distancing Festival is a directory of links to live-streamed art, music, and other performances to help you through the isolationism.
Marvin Kuhr on Instagram.
Bluebells cover the floor of the Hallerbos forest in Belgium.
This twitter thread about type is super good.
Natalie Shau's Haunted Beauty on Instagram.
writemd is a simple, free, and shareable tool for writing Markdown alone, or collaboratively.
Glass Museum new album Reykjavik is beautiful.
YTMND is back!! Revived and rebuilt for modern browsers.
Joseph Lee's super abstract portraits.
Coldplay's tiny desk concert.
Marcus Cederburg's minimalist photography on Instagram
Sir Patrick Stewart reading a Shakespeare sonnet every day on Instagram.
The Pen Addict dot com is a blog about notebooks and pens. Which means its a blog for me.
Kicks Condor's href hunt is back. This time it's double sized.
@seaglass_takechan on Instagram. Art made with glass from the sea.
Penko Gelev on Instagram. Fantastic illustrations.
Evolumina on Instagram.
Ever Changing Horizon is Quin Schrock. He’s also on Instagram here.
Jim Fitzpatrick is the real deal.
Bluebells cover the floor of the Hallerbos forest in Belgium.
Graphic design person here. Thos twitter thread about type is super good.
Buttertones Jazz music
Natalie Shau's Haunted Beauty on Instagram.
Kurt Ankeny creates beautiful comics.
Where I Write is a column on cbc.ca by Corey Doctorow on how he writes.
Here's a great list of awesome macOS command line things.
Inklewriter. is a web based, interactive writing tool. It’s open source and free to use. It reminds me of some of early HyperCard
Roll20.net gives you a virtual table & tools for gaming with your friends while quarantined.
Kurt Ankeny creates beautiful comics.
Where I Write is a column on cbc.ca by Corey Doctorow on how he writes.
Here's a great list of awesome macOS command line things.
David Chaim Smith's alchemical cartography and texts are a wonder to behold.
Frederik Heyman 3D scanned Lady Gaga for the cover of paper magazine.
Earth Focus on Instagram. Beautiful images.
Vassilis Tangoulis on Instagram. Haunting beauty in black and white.
@seaglass_takechan on Instagram. Art made with glass from the sea.
Greg Maka Photo: Industrial, beautiful.
Nixi Killick is selling augmented reality activated streetwear. Just beautifully bananas.
Stuart Campbell is an Australian artist using AR and VR to tell stories.
Amber Share illustrates real one-Star reviews of Americans national parks on her hilarious sub par parks Instagram.
The sound of 500 year old choral music in the Hagia Sofia. Found via this excellent write-up by Kottke.
Apparently there are online light pollution maps!
Jeffrey Alan Love is a multi-talented, award-winning writer and artist. His work is really something. He’s also on Intagram, and Twitter.
Saara Alhopuro makes beautiful art installations out of mushrooms mostly. Her Instagram is here.
Let's Chat is self-hosted chat for small teams.
Surrealist art by Paco Pomet.
The art of Antti Kosonen on Instagram.
The Imaginary Ruins of François de Nomé at Public Domain Review. (via Dark Roasted Blend)
Reel by Barbara Crooker is a beautiful poem to start your day.
Paidon is a manga wrtten and designed by an AI trained on Osamu Tezuka. Tezuka's Metropolis is one of my favorite anime
Nathan Wirth's Among Giantsplaces you amidst the readwoods of Lady Bird Johnson Grove with his astonishing infrared photographs.
Bret Devereaux turns a historians eye to the siege of Gondor in Peter Jackson's Return of the King. It's a six-part analysis by a professor whose blog is called A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry.
Summoning is a wonderful little webcomic.
These Painted Ladies are beautiful.
The Ever Mutating Life of Tumblr Dot Com by Allegra Rosenberg.
All U.S. presidents as dril tweets. I love this so fucking much.
Karl Zemen’s 'The Fabulous Baron Munchhausen'
Beautiful, functional art from Ryan Greenheck.
Star War: The Dub Gathers is a great subreddit
When Warren Ellis blogs about blogging it’s worth paying attention.
Foolish Questions: Art Spieglman’s review of Screwball!: The Cartoonists That Made the Funnies Funny
Ben Frost makes cool art.
Danusha Lumeris writes beautiful poetry.
Bill Ratcliffe on Flickr. Damn.
The Far Out Company: Visual overload and counterculture rarities from Haight-Ashbury and beyond on Instagram. Super groovy.
The Civic Imagination Project taps the Civic Imagination (our collective vision for what a better tomorrow may look like) to bridge perceived gaps between diverse cultures.
Stephen Spielberg’s Amazing Stories is back, this time on Apple TV+.
Robin Sloan built a messaging app for just his family.
The Fake Science Newsletter is hilarious.
Supper Mario Broth is a blog focused on obscure information about the Super Mario franchise.
Citra is an open source emulator for Nintendo 3DS that runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
The Strokes At the Door video is like a time machine back to the animated feature films of my youth.
These Lyrics Do Not Exist: AI generated lyrics based on a word and a mood that you supply.
Who’s a good boy? Grinch is a good boy!
A long Tumblr discourse on shipping in the Fineas & Ferb universe? Yes please and thank you!
The story of the RMS Carpathia, a ship that tried to save the sinking Titanic is genuinely spellbinding.
An excellent episode of Sean Carroll’s Mindscape Podcast
The World’s Music Charts is a comprehensive collection of world music chart info.
There is a bot twitter account that posts wiki titles that can be sung to the tune of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles song. On Valentine’s Day the bot posted the wiki title Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Welcome to the Singularity.
botnet is a social network simulator where you’re the only human along with a million bots who are obsessed with you. This is so right now.
Johnny Depp is producing a documentary on Shane McGowan, the lyrical genius and soul of The Pogues. (via the excellent Recs Newsletter to which you should subscribe.)
This real time review of Jupiter Ascending is the best thing ever. I literally wish all movie reviews were modeled on this one.
Liam Wong’s instagram is beautiful.
Foodporn, Earthporn, Historyporn All my favorite porns in one glorious tumblr.
Fangs is a web comic about a vampire and a werewolf that fall in love. Oh my. Its so very good.
Look at these ISS Expedition Posters! Expedition 16 is wheee things get really interesting.
Why is the grinch so grinchy?. This is a real journey.
Warren Ellis’s Transmetropolitan makes HiloBrow’s list of the 75 best sci-fi novels from the Diamond Age (1984–2003). Transmetropolitan is a fantastic piece of work.
This low-tech Google Maps hack is so brilliant.
Oh wow. World Travel: An Irreverant Guide by Anthony Bourdain will be out in October of this year. This is an automatic get for me.
Paperlike is a screen protector for that makes Ipads feel more like apaper when you draw or write with an Apple Pencil.
Looks like Netflix is rebooting(?) Ghost in a Shell. I hope it’s done right. The source material is foundational, some of the greatest manga and anime ever.
Yikes! Religious albums with unfortunate titles.
This looks weird. I’ll try it though. In for a penny, in for a pound.
Happy New Year! I'm switching the list over to January using Working Copy on my iPhone. Its a brand new year so I took the opportunity to fiddle with some new tools. Now I can edit this page on the go.
I'll get back to link-dumpin' but today I managed to get this site on git and I'm pausing to give myself a short pat on the back. Good job me!
I am going to start link-dumping here. I feel like that is a good use of this space for the time being. I can get myself more familiar with using the terminal, maybe figure some more complicated stuff out. Either way I miss the old days when you could find these little repositories of curated stuff all over the internet. It's a way of using the network that is dying since the onset of social media.
I'm not sure what intrigued me about this place but something did. I've been thinking a lot about how to withdraw from the maelstrom of feeds, and social networking surveillance while still remaining engaged with the quieter and more useful parts of the internet. The Dark Forest theory touches on those ideas in a way. For me it evokes a smaller undersea garden, a bubble of relative anonymity that retains a view of the wider, more dangerous ocean where the monster leviathans scoop up everything in their path. Something about quietly mumbling to myself, using tools and techniques from a long time ago fits neatly into that analogy for me.
So for the time being I'll use this space for just that, mumbling. And in order to mumble I'll need to dig through the chest of ancient tools, and arcane languages, but that process fits with the analogy too.
That's all for today
I'm gonna dust off some un-ordered list skills, so make some room. Here's a list of my current podcast habit in no particular order:
I tune this list regularly to keep it from atrophying. There are several evergreens though. I'll never tire of In Our Time, and the same goes for Reply All, and The Memory palace, but the rest of the list gets tweaked every few months when I find myself willfully skipping a title or two. When that happens I'll sideline those titles and audition a few new ones.
I went back and added href's to the podcast list because it's the right thing to do. I didn't bother when I first put them up because, well I didn't fucking feel like doing the work. So now its done.
That was't a challenge, it was more of a pain in th eass. The next thing I want to do is a bit more of a challenge. I want to add some style to this page and that meanms I'll need to figure a couple things out. I know my way around css well enough to do the actual styling, but I'm going to need to learn a few things about how to actually apply it. I'd like to do it all in an external style sheet but that means I'll need to learn how to make a style sheet and then put it into a place and link to it all using the terminal. Now that will be a challenge.
Wish me luck
Well it's not exactly what I was initially going for, but I did get some style up in here. It's just some styling in the head but it's something. It will at least give the page a small amount of order. I feel like I know just enough to make myself a little dumber. There are these weird vestigial remnants of original misundertandings that I keep needing to prune and re-grow. It's like I understood a lot of the basic concepts behind html/css, but they were all muddied by a lack of real knowledge. The curse of the Jack of All Trades is in fact that he is Master of None. It comes from what might be a useful trait: The ability to grasp things quickly. Unfortunately that usefulness is often hobbled by an atrophied ability to stick with something for very long. Calling someone a JOATMON is realy more of a polite way to point out that someone suffers from an attention deficit disorder. Its a pretty reliable indicator of someone who is quick to learn something new, but also quick to tire of it and move on to something else. I think I'm pretty clearly that thing.