2024
Mixtape garden let’s you make mixtapes with others.
A list of blog platforms. Lots of options!
Pixel Poetry let’s you release your inner Austin Kleon.
On why Werner Herzog’s memoir finishes mid-sentence, it has to do with bullets and hummingbirds.
I miss human curation. Same, I’m doing my best at thingstoclick.com!
Lee Friedlander’s black-and-white photography is odd, occasionally nsfw, and interesting. /via meanwhile
Feeds for your RSS reader. Works well with fraidyc.at.
“Fast Car” is not a relic of its time but tragically timeless.
AIxDESIGN LIBRARY is a “library of books on the topics of technology, AI, society, and design.” Nice…
2/6/24
AIxDESIGN LIBRARY is a “library of books on the topics of technology, AI, society, and design.” Nice site.
"Real people sometimes pay to access content, or donate to support a nonprofit publisher, or watch an..."
2/5/24
“Real people sometimes pay to access content, or donate to support a nonprofit publisher, or watch an ad. Those things can be annoying but pay for the content to be produced in the first place. If we strip them away, there’s no writing, information, or expression for the app to summarize. A world where everyone uses an app like this is a death spiral to an information desert.”
- Stripping the web of its humanity
It’s lava like a live volcanoMight wild out like Lyle...
2/5/24
It’s lava like a live volcano
Might wild out like Lyle Alzado
An “indoor waterfall and garden/forest at Singapore’s Jewel...
2/2/24
An “indoor waterfall and garden/forest at Singapore’s Jewel Changi Airport.” via What’s Your Favorite Airport Amenity?
Lit Tapes
2/2/24
Playlists compiled from songs referenced in books.
Listen to music, audio books, and podcasts on a purpose-built...
2/1/24
Listen to music, audio books, and podcasts on a purpose-built device with a tried-and-true form factor, a familiar user interface, and no interest in your data.
(via Tangara)
“I used to listen to your podcast”
2/1/24
“I used to listen to your podcast”:
I get it.
It’s fine. I take no offense. In fact, that’s part of the magic of podcasts! There’s an ebb and flow to them.
"AI is good at making scary images. Even if the prompt lacks all hints of horror kitsch, you need to..."
2/1/24
“AI is good at making scary images. Even if the prompt lacks all hints of horror kitsch, you need to get ready to see or feel something disturbing when you look at AI images. It’s like a spell. Part of the scariness comes from the cancer-like pattern that reproduces the same ornament without considering its meaning and consequence.”
- AI Art is The New Stock Image
"Humans weren’t designed for this level of omniscience"
2/1/24
Source: @technicallymims on threads.net
Hundreds of people arm themselves with vegetables in Piornal,...
2/1/24
Hundreds of people arm themselves with vegetables in Piornal, Spain, each year to pelt an evil figure of legend.
“A set can tell us what a character cannot. There is no...
1/30/24
“A set can tell us what a character cannot. There is no screen time for lengthy exposition about every detail that is Gwen Stacy, but through Set Decoration we can get hints of the events and details of her life that shaped her.”
From Patrick O’Keefe‘s dive into production design.
It’s 2024 and FiiO is making a portable cassette player...
1/18/24
It’s 2024 and FiiO is making a portable cassette player with all-analog features
via ArtStation by Maojin.Lee