Some fine Jelly Ear growing on the yellow tree.
Status:
Pretty exhausted today. Tinnitus buzzing and in need of rests in dark rooms.
Overnight listening:
Reading:
- How Martin Rowson and Ella Baron draw the age of Trump and turmoil: two cartoonists go head-to-head - as someone who cannot make their hands do even basic drawing I’ve always found watching cartoonists akin to witnessing magic.
- Favourite well-made apps and sites - haven’t explored a list like this for a while, probably because most apps and sites are bloody awful these days, but there are a few here I know and like (Bear, Kottke, Floor796, iA Writer, RegExr and of course gov.uk) so I reckon it’ll be worth a few clicks.
- Ben Wheatley curates a brain-melting sci-fi movie marathon - I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover Wheatley, a fellow 1972 alumnus, was an Alex Cox Moviedrome fan. (I too saw Testsuo at a formative age, in a double bill with Akira circa 1990)
- Backseat Software - “the slow shift from software as a tool you operate to software as a channel that operates on you. Once a product learns it can talk back, it’s remarkably hard to keep it quiet. This post is about how we got here."
Watching:
- Saving a yellowed Sega Saturn from a flea market 19:50
- Sesame Street: Pinball Animation Countdown Compilation 12:32 - 1 2 3 4 5, 6 7 8 9 10, 11 12