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Lily sippin' and the web assay.
August 6, 2020
Marguerite sips a lily. My friend Marguerite, who I’ve known since the second grade, made a startling discovery recently that crossed my instagram path. She...
Robotic vines and robots in the office.
July 30, 2020
That time Pepsi owned a twenty-ship military fleet. I guess I was 14 when this happened, in 1989, so I have no recollection of it nor had I heard about it...
Melisma and The Long View
July 23, 2020
Figure him in your budget. Shortly before I sat down to finish this newsletter up, this newly discovered trove of FBI motivational posters from World War 2...
Examining Priors and Cathedrals
July 16, 2020
Just because it looks like a leaf to us doesn’t mean it looks like a leaf to them. Preventing your prior assumptions from distorting your critical analysis...
Satchmo's last tape and some rules
July 9, 2020
Last tape recorded by pops. Archivist Ricky Ricciardi authored this breathtaking tale of discovering the contents of the very last tape Louis Armstrong made....
Bardo, Fuji, and Curated Butts
July 2, 2020
Please keep your head in the Bardo. It feels like in some ways the US has emotionally moved on already from all of the upheaval we’re still very much going...
Three bananas about imagination and the future
June 25, 2020
This week I picked three bananas about the future and how it gets made. All organizing is science fiction. There’s an idea that has been bouncing around in...
Shady Transformers, David Byrne on Performance
October 31, 2019
Geniune shade. In an era of hyper-real imaging and printing, it’s easy to forget there are other badass styles. These creations by LEK Custom Toys are actual...
Sincerity, gravity, and harmony
October 10, 2019
It’s almost tomorrow, but it isn’t. As long as there’s a little bit of Thursday left, there are a few things I want to show you. Hippo Birdie 2 Ewe. It’s...
Locusts, Blackbirds and Dragons
September 26, 2019
I missed you all last week - sometimes things just get super busy. I’m excited to have three fresh bananas for you today. Locusts as staple crop. This is a...
Bananas about music, again
September 12, 2019
This is a YouTube heavy bunch of bananas. It also just so happened to all relate to music - I didn’t plan it to have a theme. They just presented themselves...
Harvest mice and quasiparticles
September 5, 2019
The enviable digs of harvest mice: This seems good for everyone involved, especially the photograph peruser. isi litke @isilitkeyou've seen those pictures of...
HHTDL's land rover and gar suction
August 22, 2019
The New York of Blondie. It’s always fun to see two famous people from completely different spheres interact with each other in sincere ways on Twitter....
The Quebec Simpsons and fore-edge painting
August 15, 2019
The Quebec Dub. I think anyone who grew up on television has wondered at one point or another this same thing: what are shows are like in translation all...
Work, magnetosense, and character
August 1, 2019
Work. A violin and cello duo at the 42nd st. station absolutely tore up the Rihanna classic “Work”. Found via @theferocity. Kay Angrum @kayangrumJust watched...
Missing Alien War, exploding books, a reverse payment model
July 18, 2019
Missed connections with Alien War. For the better part of an academic year from 1995-6, I lived as a student in Central London. I like to think I learned a...
Cootie Catchers, Hair Metal, and GPS
July 11, 2019
Lianna Fled the Cranberry Bog in a Cootie Catcher. Sometimes new, non-strictly-linear approaches to storytelling feel like they are a whole lot of innovation...
The rhythms of speech, chance encounters, and The Luminaries
June 27, 2019
The rhythms of speech. Too much setup would probably lessen your experience with it. In the below YouTube video that you should click to watch, a great...
Debbie Harry and Mr. Trash Wheel
June 20, 2019
Not all heroes have noses. This photo scrolling by on Reddit caught my eye last week. Props to original poster, u/Orphanpunchers. This distinguished and...
VHS Girl and the KFC Kimono
June 13, 2019
VHS Girl’s start in painting. We first spotted Katie Winchester aka VHS Girl’s fantastic hand painted and lovingly rendered homages to old VHS movie box art...
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