A great story about a peach tree, a bear, and the automated podcast machine that was built to keep the bear from eating the peaches. 🍑🐻🎙️

The word of the day is refuturing. Coined and described by Warren Ellis as the “… sense of creating new immediate futures and repopulating the futures space with something entirely divorced from the previous consensus futures.”

This aerial time lapse video of dogs herding sheep is much more insteresting than it sounds. /via studio neat, the makers of the panobook.

Women’s Pockets are Inferior. There is an interactive part of this article where you can drop things into women’s and men’s pockets for comparison (see screenshot below). /via chris glass

Great video by Stephen Hackett, Why I Use Paper Notebooks in 2018. I’ll throw a plug out for Word. notebooks, another pocket notebook. I like the pre-made bullets:

Uses this is “a collection of nerdy interviews asking people from all walks of life what they use to get the job done.” Very interesting to see how other people work.

From A Mirrored Mexican Home Hides Among a Lush Forest.

If your math works out like ours, you’ll end up with about one hour and 12 minutes a day for focused, productive work.

Oh, that’s depressing.

🎵 My good friend Steve makes awesome loops and beats. Like this one that uses a sample from a Greatful Dead song. Enjoy!

Al Boardman - maker of fine animated gifs.

text.fyi let’s you publish something to the web with " … no tracking, ad-tech, webfonts, analytics, javascript, cookies, databases, user accounts, comments, friending, likes, follower counts or other quantifiers of social capital."

GIjoe365 is an art project by Chris Hemsworth who decided to draw the great 80s GI Joe action figures (example above). Super fun nostalgia trip!

Beth Dean’s home page is pure retro fun.

Huh, soup.io is still around.

Arron Reynolds (the creator of awesome Twitters like @swear_trek) tells the story of declaring his social media accounts when he visited America:

I started with a softball: @DirtyPianoNames.

“There’s only one tweet here and it says Yuja Wang.”

“Yes, that’s correct.”

😂

He loves these

Freehand from InVision is pretty awesome. The Shape Detection during the draw mode is really smooth.

The “Int-Ball” is a bit larger than a softball, can float and maneuver by itself but also be controlled remotely, can take high resolution images and videos. /via apod.nasa.gov

I got a peak at a dead mall in my town today. Creepy. One of the creators of the Blair Witch wanted to film a movie in the mall, but I don’t think it went anywhere. Bonus link: a drone’s eye view of the mall.

Muzzle’s landing page is pretty funny.

The Panobook is a paneramic notebook for your desk. Backed. Also, I have a notebook problem.

I highly recommend doing “quick Twitter”

Mike D of the Beastie Boys writes about his crib for Architectural Digest

Because I’m Me by the Avalanches. Great song, great video, happy Friday!

Anyone out there try to get their Pinboard rss feeds into micro.blog?