Recap
Last few weeks I have not been well, two colds one after another in quick succession which has made me very tired and lazy, so not getting much done.
Last weekend we were up in London to attend a retirement party for my old boss in Catford. It was nice to see a bunch of people who I have not seen for 10 years now, including M who I met up with the next day for a dog walk around Nunhead Cemetery.
This week I have spent a lot of my time going through hilobrow.com's review of Radium Age Art and building my own image collection.
Links
Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking for public trust on AI.
Wax Index - An aggregator for some of the best record stores
playground - Independent games made with AI. All playable in your browser.
Accidental Mysteries - found photos, etc
Frightened Chicks - How England Began: From Roman Britain to the Anglo-Saxons
Hidden Architecture - an attempt to make visible the difference in architectural practice and provide a deserved value to certain projects and concepts subtracted from the academic narrative.
A Cartography of Genocide - A Spatial Analysis of the Israeli Military’s Conduct in Gaza since October 2023
jungle - Infinite jungle in the browser
Crafting Apps - Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics, page layout, interface design, word processing, audio, presentations, CAD and spreadsheets. Native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
image to ascii - Drop in an image, and get it back as animated ascii in its own colours.
Poster Prompts - One hundred design styles as copy-paste prompts for ChatGPT image generation. Each page shows the prompt alongside an example of what it produces — for two events: a village fête and a music gig.
The people holding up the internet - "the time zone database, which holds every clock rule a government has ever announced. Paul Eggert, a lecturer at UCLA, keeps that file up to date in his spare time."
Color Names - A meticulously curated collection of 31970 unique color names.
Inside Out Library - Search historical illustrations, curious diagrams, and overlooked imagery. Free to use for anything.
Flowstate - Handwritten pages and voice memos — transcribed, formatted, and saved into the apps you already use.
Arcana Made Easy - Exploding notions of heteronormative occultist practice through reflections on two gallery exhibitions that celebrate queer arcana.
BIG WORDS - Make a full-screen sign, timer or message from a link. Hold up your phone at arrivals, put a countdown on the TV, or show the Wi-Fi password at the front desk. No account, no app, nothing stored on a server. The link is the whole display, so you can share it or bookmark it.
Reelizer - Standout film art, selected since 2011.
Phonon - Gradium's open-weight text-to-speech, running right here in your browser. The model downloads once from Hugging Face, and nothing you type leaves your device.
The Timeline Museum - a zoomable art-history timeline with walkable 3D galleries of real paintings, all sourced from Wikipedia