My friend Carina has finally found some time to try her typewriter. Ribbon might need to be replaced, results are encouraging:
Over the last few months, I have looked at most of the media used by painters to form their work, from the support of massive stone walls to the last layer of varnish. This article summarises the series, and provides links to each of its articles.
Theremin+Synth piece from whence you came.
Watercolor: A Slice of Apple.
Chronophobias of the past, involving the new-fangled electronic typewriter: A writer best friend.
A 1971 interview with Henri Cartier-Bresson.
“For myself — I’m not speaking for others. I take my pleasure that way. Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible”.
Hilma af Klint. First abstract artist, even before Kandinsky.
In her will, Hilma af Klint left all her abstract paintings to her nephew, a vice-admiral in the Swedish Royal Navy. She specified that her work should be kept secret for at least 20 years after her death. When the boxes were opened at the end of the 1960s, very few persons had knowledge of what would be revealed.
Slowly shaping up:
Maruka highland / Keith Lofstrom's Vanity Web Page.
Moonlight Smugglers, a pleasant surprise announcement by friend and game-dev Qptain Nemo:
Bonus, Combo Pool, an addictive game for the Pico-8.
Bonus: falco pellegrino cam.
I just finished Why Ever Did I Want To Write: Patchwork of a writing life, an enjoyable autobiography which draws most of its material from the diaries and letters of the protagonist. This bit from the introduction resonated with me:
For most people, their memories serve as the primary source of information about their past.Not so for me. I remember almost nothing about my pre-teenage years, and very little about my teenage years. The memories I do have are fixed stories about (or pictures of) myself: when brought to mind I cannot root around for further detail.
Therefore, as I’ve long told myself and friends, my diary is my memory. A good example of this is the journal I kept for three years while travelling round the world: almost all of what I think I know about myself during that time can, in fact, be found in the journal. Over the years, I’ve had occasion to re-read it several times – typing it onto the computer, editing it for a printed copy, editing it for uploading to my website and so on. This means that if any of the travelling stories in my memory get altered (exaggerated), re-reading the diary serves to reset them.
And indeed the most vivid and rewarding memories of my past years are seldom brought back by a picture, a postcard, a video reel, but by few diary entries written in a notebook.
bonus: Antonio Segura Donat, The Healing of the Lame of Capernaum.
Bonus: <BrutalSlakt> 300SEK (didn't buy, don't have the space) (pic)
Play Kerfuffle by KKairos!
To play it you need DosBox and the ZZT engine. Move the .zzt into the engine folder, select a world with W and pick KRFFFL-C). The game is worth the setup pain, I promise!
Other: Dokmelody, (eo) Mazi en Gondolando.
Last year I decided to get back into reading more (I even compiled a handy list to help me in the selection process).
I read 60+ books in 2018: 53 from the public library, a handful of ebooks (I sold my ebook reader after realising paper is more comfortable to my eyes – and gets me in the mood to read more) and a few paperbacks bought in shopping sprees.
So here is a selection of the ones I liked most, if you want to start your 2019 with a similar goal:
After almost ten years, the time has finally come to say “goodbye” to Mnemosyne. Mnemosyne is an amazing spaced-repetition software (with simply the best user experience of them all), but I simply find myself more and more weary of screen-time the older I get.
I will replace it with a pen and paper method: one of A Simple Vocabulary Memorization Method and the Gold Book method.
Transferring ~9500 cards will be quite a task, but I am sure it will be worth it.
Do you want to be updated of new research papers via RSS? Then you will like gscholar-rss.
Happy to announce that lentil now supports Emacs org-mode (.org) syntax. Many thanks to Damien Couroussé for the patch!
Just played: Winter Storm Draco.
Here is a small thing I transcribed and tried to play today (synth: aeolus).
If you want to play it yourself, grab the score (abc/pdf).
Jean Giraud's illustrations for the Divine Comedy.
I wrote some haskell hack.
Van Gogh pen & watercolor sketches.
Click on the image below to play a simple-but-smart chess puzzle.
I wrote this using reflex-dom, to check the capabilities of Haskell for the web. Some of it is still painful (long build times, no way to use repl/ghicd, bloated exes, extremely scant documentation), while writing FRP is alluring.
Joachim Breitner wrote on the matter and provides some relief.
