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This is for kids, but I am going to feature it quite unashamedly as it tells such a cool story! Based on the children’s book Mildred and the Copycat by Jono Ganz (and published by Tate in the UK), it tells the story of a cat called...
Another day full of history – Rome has a lot to offer! Much has changed, and many things have been lost over time. However, it is fascinating how much still remains and how connected it is to today.
Note to self: next time I decide to go outside and do a photoshoot in the ruralest parts of rural Montana, bring mosquito spray! I’m still itching all over. in: notes tagged: montana
Capitalism is a class system, and in recent years billionaires and their retainers have grown more brazen in asserting this basic social fact. Wherever the extreme right have assumed government, the oligarchical interest is strengthened...
Mark Ovenden’s latest book, Mapping Britain’s Railways: The Design History of a Nation on Track, is out today from British Library Publishing. The publisher’s description: Railway diagrams have been at the forefront of mapping Britain’s…...
Having just fulfilled our vow to read at least one story from each issue of Weird Tales with a 1924 cover date, let's get cracking on 1925, with three 1925 stories from Frank Belknap Long, a fancy dresser with exciting hair. We were just...
Made a couple of more tweaks to the CSS. Dove deeper this time, used Claude to help me figure out how to get to these elements in the CSS: footnotes’ anchor (the super-text number) and the arrow leading back to the original post. Looks...
Pick up a fossil and you are holding evidence of a life.Not merely an old rock. Not an attractive geological paperweight. Not something the Earth made solely to tempt us into climbing unstable slopes in inappropriate footwear.A fossil is...
While I’ve visited Chicago many times in the past 15 years, they were usually for Market Days – the LGBTQ+ street festival held every August. During those trips we rarely ventured outside of Boystown, the bars or the nightly late-night...
I’ve been toying around with pinhole photography of late, and picked up a Mia Mezzaluna 6x9 camera. The banner image is a 10 minute long exposure I took of myself. It was quite fun trying not to move for that long and I entered a weird...
From Michael Bracewell’s novella The Smiths, in which the narrator describes first hearing ‘Hand in Glove’:And was there some stratum of attitude, somewhere in the lower register, that brought to mind the interior monologue of a drily...
For the record, the only agents I have representing my work are Booklyn; who focus on placing reasonably-sized art-on-paper at institutional collections, especially within the U.S. They've been instrumental in getting my work into a...
Me too, mancub, me too. Herself incubated what may possibly be plague at Bloodstock and is therefore in the Plague Cell (our daughter’s old room) once again. The internet is acting like an elephant is sitting on it. The humidity...
Julian Chokkattu • Wired “It’s proof that it can be done—if companies wanted to make eminently fixable modular products, they could,” Proctor says. “There’s no technological reason why they can’t do it; it really is what they’ve decided...