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08/06/2024

When it comes to photo restoration, it looks like AI isn't ready for prime-time. It's an interesting concept, though, and this sarcastic video makes me want to watch a good-quaility restoration of Hitchcock's "Vertigo." I didn't know that the film has colors that couldn't be shown until recently.

A belated review of Cameron's 4k filmography, arriving dead last but for the very firstest of first world problems.Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.co...

06/04/2024

This joke never gets old.

30/03/2024

Art is a verb. Writing is art. Reading brings the writing to life.

Image of Verb List from MoMA.org The artist Richard Serra died yesterday at 85. His sculptures combined the monumental with the intimate, pieces that overwhelm and envelop but are often the only on…

29/03/2024

It's a sad day for small, independent presses and publishers, and for writers and readers as well. Small Press Distribution (SPD) is closing its doors.

From the announcement:

For more than five decades, SPD has distributed books for hundreds of independent literary publishers, allowing thousands of writers to bring diverse, experimental, and disruptive literature to audiences across the globe. SPD’s impact on the literary world over the past 55 years is hard to overstate. Against all odds, a tiny distribution service in the back of Berkeley’s Serendipity Books grew to help authors attain some of the literary world’s crowning achievements. SPD-distributed authors won multiple National Book Awards, Pulitzer Prizes, MacArthur “Genius” Grants, PEN Awards, Lambda Literary Awards–nearly 100 awards since 2019 alone.

Unfortunately, these accolades were no match for the challenges of a rapidly changing book industry and funding environment.

Small Press Distribution (SPD) is a non-profit literary arts organization located in Berkeley, California. As their name indicates, the core of their mission is to act as an umbrella distributor and marketer for hundreds of smaller literary publishers. SPD's primary mission is to get the books of th...

26/03/2024

Might have called the owls a hootenanny.

Language is an instrument of great precision and poignancy — our best tool for telling each other what the world is and what we are, for conveying the blueness of blue and the wonder of being…

23/03/2024

It's a rainy Saturday morning. The cat is snoring. I'm looking at typewriter designs.

Hundreds of typewriter users worldwide will be very familiar with the designs of German Karl Clauss Dietel, probably without realising the p...

07/01/2024

📚 Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a literary aficionado, or someone who enjoys the fusion of modern and post-modern concepts, this post is for you. Let's reminisce together and get inspired for what the future holds!

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As we embark on a new year, let’s take a look at 2023 and what happened where tech meets text.

03/01/2024

The Blue Men’s new year wish for you 💙

What are your 2024 hopes?

28/11/2023

⚡ MAGNETIC FIELDS ⚡
Beats and tones, atmospheres and situations, words and sights.
Twelve artists performing in response to the first surrealist text.

📅 December 15, 7 PM @ Le Mondo, Baltimore
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03/11/2023

When I describe my novella Northwood to others, I always call it experimental — mostly in order to manage their expectations. I initially conceived of Northwood as a book of poems, and though it settled into being a short novel, it still contains elements of poetry and linked microfiction. I t...

03/11/2023

01/09/2023

How am I supposed to concentrate on anything when there's stuff like this in the world?

I meant to make this video like 2 years ago. How time flies...Unlike the C3PO video, I actually did this voice myself! Though, I did have to pitch it up 2-3 ...

28/08/2023

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04/08/2023

Discord servers are great for gaming hangouts, but since they have such good features for audio/video, they're also good for hosting book clubs, readings and slams, etc.

Online literary events on Discord: Discord's stage channels empower writers to share and connect creatively.In this video, I'm explaining why Discord is perf...

31/07/2023

Thank you for everything, Pee-wee.

Paul Reubens, the actor and comedian whose character Pee-wee Herman became a cultural phenomenon through films and TV shows, has died.

24/07/2023

There was just a big birthday party for the noble typewriter. It included a typewriter drumming performance.

In June 2023, Milwaukeeans celebrated 150 years of typewriter history.

27/06/2023

"whether ephemeral guerrilla art, stern warnings or idle musings, the messages have a similar effect. In a city that shouts and blares, these are little whispers, with voices as varied and distinctive as New Yorkers themselves.

Often the notes raise more questions than they answer: Who wrote that? Why? What are the goods that are urgently processed? And what is it about a funny or serendipitous turn of phrase spotted out of context that compels me to have an iPhone camera roll full of them, the earliest photo dating back more than a decade?

They’re not quite Easter eggs, these unexpected messages — I never actively hunt for them. In fact, one often pops up when I least expect it."

If you know where to look — down in the subway, up on a light pole, inside a taxi — you’ll find messages from New Yorkers trying hard to make themselves heard.

18/06/2023

Weekend Reads: "Thinking fast and slow" by Daniel Kanheman

A welcome diversion from all the fast-thinking reactions to the pace of information, with admonishments to slow down, this book points out different modes of thought, consideres how they work, and how to use them to their best advantages.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

11/06/2023

Weekend Reads: "The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains" by Nicholas Carr

This is from before the rise of Tik-Tok and the so-called fall of Twitter but its ideas are still precient. The jacket boldly claims, "this is a book that will forever alter the way we think about media and our minds."

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

04/06/2023

Weekend Reads: "The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building" by David J. Peterson

What's it like to create a fictional language?

The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building

28/05/2023

Weekend Reads: "Death of an Author: A Novella" by Aidan Marchine

It was only a matter of time before a novel came out, written in "collaboration" with an AI. Wired magazine calls it "required reading for anyone who's thinking about doing the same."

Death of an Author: A Novella

27/05/2023

This one looks good. It seems to be more about character and choices than about shooting, but it still looks to have some adventure.

Star Trek: Resurgence reviewed by Will Borger on PC, also available on PlayStation and Xbox.Resurgence does an admirable job of capturing the spirit of Star ...

26/05/2023

A new video! This one is about tinkering with Notion to create a writer's dasboard. It can organize your written works, potential publishing venues, and submission details.

Create a Custom Dashboard to Track Your Writing Submissions for Publication | Notion Tutorial for Writerstemplate ↠ https://bit.ly/notion4writerssubscribe...

19/05/2023

In life, we're trapped inside the first-person-shooter game of our own mind, but there's no need for a story to be that way.

Perspectives that create connections between the reader and the protagonist in ways that the third person can’t

16/05/2023

It’s the most wonderful time of the year 🌳📚