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Saw Hamish Fulton talk last weekend. Suddenly remembered he ran a group slow walk in Birmingham in 2012. Here’s an interview.
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🔗 Dan Hon: Everything Is Political
From his regular newsletter, skip the Snow Crash stuff (unless that’s your thing) for the meaty evisceration of this ongoing delusion that the tech industry of Silicon Valley is in any way apolitical. This idea that the actions of Google, Facebook etc do not form a political ideology is one of the more dangerous ones of our era. -
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🔗 Bright green environmentalism
“Environmentalists who believe that radical changes are needed in the economic and political operation of society in order to make it sustainable, but that better designs, new technologies and more widely distributed social innovations are the means to make those changes.” -
🔗 Inside the iPhone 11 Camera, Part 1: A Completely New Camera
Computational photography continues to be really interesting. Sure, you don’t need this stuff, and I’m happy with the limitations of “normal” photography with a dumb sensor, but for the majority of people disappointed with their photos this stuff is a game-changer. (This article is obvious biased to the new iPhones but all smartphones are doing this stuff.) -
So we were just outside of Plymouth in a bedsit apartment overlooking the sea during an 80mph (130kph) storm at 5am. It was exciting and we did not sleep.
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The sea, the sea.
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Tim Shaw performing at Walking’s New Movements, Plymouth.
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Walking’s New Movements conference, Friday evening.
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🔗 Autism profiles and diagnostic criteria.
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Went to the MAC to see Black Men Walking, a play about black men walking in the Peak District. It was very good. That’s two theatre productions I’ve seen in the space of a month. Maybe I’m a theatre go-er these days.
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Fungus season
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Tonight’s film was Theory of Obscurity: a film about The Residents, about a band I’ve known about for decades (they overlap with a lot of underground comics / counterculture stuff that I’ve liked) but for some reason have never properly explored.
The doc is a good introduction but also a good layout of their philosophy towards art and creative work in general. I think I may have to lend this to all my art friends. Good stuff.
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Johnson’s Britain and Corbyn’s Britain are vastly different countries, on starkly divergent paths. Each one contains millions of opponents who will feel more like dissidents under a hostile ideological regime than citizens under a government they happened not to choose.