Through Lines 225
Although Joey Waronker is a favorite drummer of mine, having seen him play with R.E.M. and Roger Waters, I realized I don’t know much about him. I learned a few things about recording at home and getting better drum sounds that I probably should have known, but didn’t.
- The Space Exploration Logo Archive. The name says it all, but perhaps equally interesting is that they’re publishing a small Risograph printed book of the archive. Yes, please.
- Similarly worth your time is the new-to-me Modern Illustration archive, a great catalog of work originally created between 1950 and 1975. And Public Work by Cosmos.
- The line “acceleration is abolishing all intervals” from Byung-Chul Han’s The Burnout Society (toque tip Mandy Brown for this) is so incredibly spot-on to one of the most dastardly negative effects of digital technologies — our ability to think and reason effectively.
- Derrick Schultz’s Modern Technology collection of short films is a fantastic amalgamation of how to utilize the best of modern digital technology paired with classic analog tools and technologies to make something wholly unique.
- Mathematicians Discover New Shapes to Solve Decades-Old Geometry Problem. And of course it all somehow come back to a Venn diagram as a way to explain this.
- With a lot of talk here in Silicon Valley about Meta’s new AR glasses being “the future” this past week, let us not forget what that company has ultimately revealed itself to be over the last nearly 20 years.
- How to run a simple web server on an old iPhone. I’m sure a lot of us have one or two of those lying around. I know I do.
- I call it Through Lines because it contains multitudes — a microcosm itself of the rest of this personal site. There’s friction in there but that gives meaning to it.
- Probably going to need to pick up ItemZero’s forthcoming Paper, Paper, Paper book.
- I’m going to need to spend some time digging through Rich Rutter’s typographically-oriented TODS CSS default stylesheet overrides.
- Amnesia seems handy for dealing with one particularly major Mac OS annoyance.
- Scheduling time to go see the (by all accounts, magical) The Wild Robot soon.
- Ballerina looks like it might be a fun offshoot of the John Wick universe.
This has been a tough week for me emotionally and physically and creatively. A bunch of big up and down swings and long days which have left me today feeling largely unmoored and generally exhausted. I’m genuinely amazed I managed to get this together today given how low energy I’ve been feeling. Next week should be better and I plan to go a little easy this weekend to recover. I’ve already made it through the first two parts of the (and I don’t say this lightly) incredible Tragically Hip documentary, No Dress Rehearsal on Prime.