Weekly Update

Recap

Urghhhhhhh

So Hot!!!!!

Spent most of this week in Yorkshire visiting elderly relative

Too Hot!!!!

Links

Hyperblam - lets you make music with HTML. Create pedal boards, drum machines, sampled instruments.

Currents - another Pinterest clone I guess

Storied Colors - One color a day, told as it ought to be told: with its provenance, its chemistry, and the people who paid for it in poison.

Inkwash - right-click to add water ( good write up of how its made )

Butterick's Practical Typography - an amazing resource

la machine - the creature that refuses to behave.

The Reinvention of the Guitar in 13 Albums - to celebrate the publication of his new book Still In A Dream, music journalist and author Simon Reynolds explores the repeated reinvention of the guitar throughout music history via 13 records, from Bo Diddley to Seefeel

ZONE ONE - A live map of central London. Every tube train, bus, mainline train, riverboat and aircraft on screen is real and moving in real time, placed from public transport and tracking feeds. Hover or tap a vehicle for details, click a station for departures, a camera for its live picture.

Spectrimage - Color wizard for pixel visualization (with another good write up of how its created)

Roland50 Studio - Classic synths in the browser

The Forgotten Castles of the Garamantes - lie buried beneath the Libyan sand. This ancient Berber civilisation flourished in the Fezzan region, building fortified towns, trading extensively with the Roman Empire, and raising unique pyramids.

The 100 greatest songs of the 1960s - the pinnacle of, arguably, the strongest decade of music ever.

The Butlerian Jihad Has Begun - Do we need a 'Holy War' against the Thinking Machines?

MediSearch - Science-based answers to medical questions

Benjamin Everett - incredible photography

Hope Is Not Naive - Rebecca Solnit on Backlash, Power, and Political Memory

Inkfield - More in-browser inky fun. Digital ink painting on WebGL + p5.js — records every gesture as JSON and replays them as time-based generative art.

cachemonet - a bunch of gifs

The Closet - a walk-in closet of 1,327 real Criterion editions, shelved in spine-number order — exactly as a true collector keeps them. Look around, read the spines, and pull any one off the shelf to inspect the case.