On why Werner Herzog’s memoir finishes mid-sentence, it has to do with bullets and hummingbirds.

A time capsule of tumblelogs from 2007.

I miss human curation. Same, I’m doing my best at thingstoclick.com!

In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox.

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.

“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement.

“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 site.

“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 volcano
Might wild out like Lyle Alzado

Wax Raps on Bicycle

An “indoor waterfall and garden/forest at Singapore’s Jewel Changi Airport.” via What’s Your Favorite Airport Amenity?

Lit Tapes:

Playlists compiled from songs referenced in books.

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”:

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.

by Matt Schu

“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

Source: @technicallymims on threads.net

Hundreds of people arm themselves with vegetables in Piornal, Spain, each year to pelt an evil figure of legend.

Turnips at the ready: Jarramplas festival

“Triple Seven” by Photographer Anne Lass

“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. 

Atari Pong Sinclair Hat

It’s 2024 and FiiO is making a portable cassette player with all-analog features

via ArtStation by Maojin.Lee

via Bjorn Steinbekk