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It is self-serving to claim one “discovered” an artist, but I guess I did. Early works here circa 1992 by 1930 Haitian born artist Max Romain of the Bronx, New York. I found his work In an amateur exhibition at a branch of the New York...
In this short series, I finally pick up some games that I’ve heard about, and are highly rated, but I just have never given a shot. The first of these is Vampire Survivors.
🔖Read I Let My Students Watch Me Struggle With a Masterpiece. It Changed Everything.. In the algorithmic age, effective teaching is affective teaching. Yes! Being a good teacher requires being sort of odd, even a bit immature. This is my...
Why not both at once
This is what my Fujifilm X100VI kit had become––bloated and less pleasurable to use.(click to enlarge)In the past, I've expressed my thoughts about the X100VI, how I use it, my different and more casual attitude when using it and how...
When I think back on my time at Blockbuster, I sometimes think of The Sandlot. Not because we spent our shifts playing baseball, although we probably would have if there had been room between the New Releases wall and the candy display,...
Friends, I went out at night to take train photos, and I enjoyed it.
From the 1930s, postcard nostalgia about the “days of the Square Rigger”: “Stokes” in this case is Isaac Newtown Phelps Stokes, who wrote the definitive book, in six volumes, on the physical and visual history of New York City up to the...
I just finished re-reading Ted Chiang' "Story of your life", and a number of things clicked in my head. You may have picked up that I read this novel at the same time as I was working on my Ph.D. research. You may have picked up that...
Most retellings of Elvis Presley's funeral stop at the hearse pulling out of Graceland's gates on 18 August 1977. That's usually where the story ends: eighty thousand mourners lining Elvis Presley Boulevard, a white suit, a Cadillac...
first one doneChecking that the depth is 3/8" deep on each one. helperThis spans the two rods of the vise and I set the narrow rails on top of it. Solid base to chop the mortises on.oopsI was being careful, taking teeny whacks so I...
It's been a strange beginning to the work week. Let me record, so I don't forget.--I've been in that liminal space where it's time to settle into the semester, yet I could still delay doing that for another few days. My office hour time...
Here’s a bunch of random things that happened in Blender Video Sequence Editor (VSE) since the previous blog post. For the full picture check out VSE related release notes of Blender 5.1, 5.2 and upcoming 5.3. Below I’m mentioning only...
The latest newsletter finally went out. This is issue #235: Can't Stop Won't Stop. As always, sign up lives here. Recently, I had to turn down working with a novelist I admire. He had a fantastic idea for a graphic novel; an exhilarating...