The Best Book Covers of the Last Decade. (lithub.com)
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Orbital. “…without earth we are all finished. We couldn’t survive a second without its grace, we are sailors on a ship on a deep, dark unswimmable sea.” (wikipedia.org)
On Additive and Extractive Technologies, “an extractive technology seeks to extract value from you instead of providing it.” Avoid.
Seer, “the built environment itself is, for all intents and purposes, becoming a gigantic archive, at all scales, forensically recording every event that occurs within it, with few or no options for opting out.” Also, BLDGBLOG is still alive.
Google Fonts organized by vibe, even if fonts aren’t your thing, visit to see all the little cursors flying around the Figma canvas.
Alistair Smith’s personal site is pretty neat.
“Books can be picked up at any time, and an idea that was written down in the past can be released back into the present, and help to influence a future.”
From: cutaway house illustrations appreciation post & fan club by way of Meanwhile.
Book (to read): State of Paradise by Laura Van Den Berg
Fiction resists summary
It is an interesting feature of stories and fiction that they resist summary. You cannot read a summary of Anna Karenina and somehow stockpile its pleasures and charms. Narrative resists compression.
His inner radio was all about oranges, dogs, and trucks
“Truly this book is in memory of my brother, Jeff. When confronted with hatred or violence, he used to say: I don’t get that station, man. His inner radio was all about oranges, dogs, and trucks. We always made up life on our own. I miss him every day.”
From the dedication of Mecca by Susan Straight.
This map/diagram from the Parks book slaps. That is all.
Links for Week 45, 2024
- An illustrated guide to science-backed mood boosters.
- A zine about reclaiming your life from digital technology.
- A tool for searching independent websites.
- A collection of the “best” marketing headlines on the internet.
- Over the Garden Wall’s 10th anniversary stop motion short.
- Max Vogel Gonzalez’s illustrations.
- An experiment with giving out potatoes to trick or treaters.
- A concept to break procrastination.
- Some objects I covet: Nike C1TY “Surplus” shoes, El Oso Bear Tee, the Kobo Clara Colour, and the book Assembling Tomorrow.
Standard Ebooks: “A volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost.” /via Austin Kleon
On why Werner Herzog’s memoir finishes mid-sentence, it has to do with bullets and hummingbirds.
I picked up An Illustrated History of Ghosts featuring the awesome art (and words) of Adam Allsuch Boardman.
From Open Circuits
