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Links of the moment
An ongoing series A very zen, oddly inspiring video showing how Blackwing pencils are made. A fun digital collage maker that pulls in magazine and public domain images you can clip and assemble. Explore 20 years of characters, passing obsessions, and everyday life through kids’ drawings. Two stories about Terrence Malick going to extremes to…
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series Typewriters + dictionaries + lexicography = the backwards index. Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail. A listening museum of mechanical keyboards and typewriters. How IKEA furniture lost its color. Fictional journeys drawn on the real world. A modern apartment full of ordinary things that once inspired awe. Don’t paste the AI and…
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Media of the moment
An ongoing series Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie. A delightfully lo-fi sci-fi goof centered around Back to the Future? You know I’d be into it. If there were any justice in the world Matt Johnson would get an Oscar nod for his wonderful, wacky performance. The Odyssey. Truly what cinema is for. Zeus’s…
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Podcasts of the moment
It’s been nearly three years since my last podcast lineup check-in, so time to see where things stand in my good ol’ Apple Podcasts feed. Comparing all the previously check-ins, it’s interesting to see which shows have endured and which I merely visited for a limited time. I try to be extra judicious about what/who…
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Critters of the moment
An occasional series A freshly molting cicada: A night heron: A fox in our backyard: A yellowjacket stuck between our window and the screen: A great egret: A snapping turtle spotted in the section of a creek under a road underpass (the lines are reflections of the ceiling): A Photinus pyralis, i.e. a good ol’…
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series Several of my interests in one: Steven Spielberg on The Rewatchables talking 2001: A Space Odyssey. Wikipedia as a Windows XP desktop. Shoutout to the Night Witches, (unfortunately) not an awesome band but an all-female Soviet bomber regiment who attacked the Nazis during World War II.
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Media of the moment
An ongoing series This Is A Gardening Show. Heard about this new Zach Galifianakis limited series on Netflix from friends, and it’s a delight. Funny, informative, family- friendly. Great hang. Project Hail Mary. Saw this with some dad friends, which felt appropriate since it’s both very dad-coded but also widely appealing as its box office…
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series Love this deep dive on the color theory behind why so many control rooms were seafoam green. What happened to movie taglines? I cannot believe the leaf sheep slug is a real animal. What a world. The Extrapolated Futures Archive maps real-world scenarios to the sci-fi stories that explore them. A clock that displays…
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My sons’ media of the moment
A spinoff of an ongoing series A Real Bug’s Life. This National Geographic miniseries on Disney+ uses macrophotography to capture tiny insects in dramatized settings, supplemented by Awkwafina’s affable narration. Monsters, Inc. Before ever even seeing the movie, the two year old got absolutely transfixed by a figurine of Mike Wazowski (or as he calls…
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series Love this deep dive on the origins of The Beatles’ “I Feel Fine”. Certified musical legend Alan Mencken breaks down his ‘90s Disney movie hits. Lots of fun and goofy designs in this 1956 Fun With Your Typewriter book. Really cool online tool to generate slipcovers for VHS, Blockbuster cases, and other…
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series Been loving Marcin Winchary’s thoughtful design takes lately, like Flickr’s inspiring URL scheme and the software versions of molly guards and Moylan Arrows. Times New Resistance is a Times New Roman impersonator font that “autocorrects the autocrats.” These 11th-century paper flowers, sealed in a Chinese cave, are a marvel of preservation. Speaking…
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series Make something heavy. Pop songs in Renaissance and Baroque style. Great longread from Bilge Ebiri on Terrence Malick and his influential filmmaking style. “What if you held a tree long enough for it to grow around your hand?” You know I’m here for a Tangible Media Collection. Which HTML element are you?
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series Size of Life is another banger from Neal.fun, one of the best places on the internet. Shoutout to ROMAN and other obscure Excel functions. Unfortunately, I have to side with Marco Rubio in the Times New Roman/Calibri font war. In praise of the prescient and “punishing digitopia” of Spielberg’s Minority Report. The…
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Media of the moment
An ongoing series Christmas music. ‘Tis the season! Some newer albums I’ve been enjoying: Happy Golden Days by The Arcadian Wild, Sleigher by Ben Folds, and Family Christmas Album Vol. II by The Oh Hellos. Homestar Runner. I didn’t realize this web series was still around, but browsing the website was a blast from my…
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner. How Marlon Brando changed acting. Red sprites FTW. How to fix a typewriter and your life.
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Links of the moment
An ongoing series As a Class of 2010 graduate, I can confirm: the best time to be in college was 2006-2010. Approaching our work as art can change our worlds. Cards Against Humanity Explains the Joke is an “incredible informational product that is 100% EXEMPT FROM DONALD TRUMP’S STUPID TARIFFS!” A dad turned his favorite…
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My sons’ media of the moment
A spinoff of an ongoing series A Minecraft Movie. We watched this a few weeks ago as a special treat and the Minecraft-obsessed six year old was completely locked in. (To be clear, he’s never played the actual game but has absorbed a lot about it from books and his friends.) Books. The two year…
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Media of the moment
An ongoing series The Naked Gun (2025). Cheers to a movie that knows exactly what it is and how to be that for just the right amount of time. Still giggling about random bits from this days later. Weapons. I’m typically a matinee guy but I stayed up past my bedtime to go see this…