VisitLondon.com's guide to the best galleries in London is a terrific resource that provides names, addresses, hours, and prices of what they consider the best galleries in the city.
Love art? Visiting London? Get it right!
The Deep Ark is an eight hour plus mix of 1990's Warp Records "Electronic Listening Music" and related beats.
Scroll down on this beautiful site to read an interview with The Arkitekt.
The Deep Ark
A powerful and deep world of sound filled with the vibrations of nature.
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via MeFi.
You will either hate me or love me for sharing this game with you.
I quite enjoyed these last year. Here's some of the highlights for 2024:
“pelicanos blancos” by Guillermo Soberón (MEXICO) and “Rocket” by Yuriy Stolypin (RUSSIA)
You can view all of the nominees here.
Some of last year's winners were extraordinarily good:
Site is here:
Siena Awards
Siena Awards
The HTML Review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web. Spring, 2024, means the third issue has been posted. It's broken into three sections: Poetry, Possibilities, and Expeditions.
As always, it's beautifully designed.
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the html review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web
Past issues are also available:
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the html review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web
the html review 01
the html review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web
They're brought to you by Maxwell Neely-Cohen and Shelby Wilson.
In Appendix-B of his book, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders asks us to write a 200-word story using only 50 unique words, constraints which Saunders suggests typically encourage an escalation of tension. Of course, someone's gone and coded a site to help you do just that, The George Saunders Escalation Exercise.
The GSEE reminds me of David Milch's process for defeating writer's block:
- Write for no less than 20 minutes and no more than 50 minutes.
- Write no description, only dialogue, using the descriptors Voice One and Voice Two.
- Take what you wrote, put it in an envelope, and seal it. Never look at it again.
- Do this every day at the same time until you're no longer blocked.
Believe it or not, this works.
(David Milch is a TV writer, which is why he's focusing on dialogue.)
Anecdote Alert
I believe Milch to be one of the greatest writers of all time. I've loved his work for many years. He's one of my heroes in art and heroes in life. I think Deadwood is as good as any Shakespeare, Picasso, or Dylan.
Years ago, after reading Mark Singer's terrific 2005 New Yorker profile, The Misfit, I reached out to Singer to ask if he still had the transcripts mentioned in the piece. He wrote back quickly to say he didn't.
About a year later I received an email from David Milch's assistant. The email simply said, "I hear you're looking for these." PDFs of the transcripts were attached. Just over 100 pages.
I've owned davidmilch.com for years and one day will make a site about him. I'll be sure to put those PDFs on them.
"In 1892, Cincinnati printer John Earhart, published The Color Printer: A Treatise on the Use of Colors in Typographic Printing, in which he detailed his methods for creating hundreds of color mixtures and thousands of color combinations as well as advice for complementary colors, using harmonious colors, and printing."
The Color Printer site is a digital edition of Earhart’s work created by Nicholas Rougeux with enhanced reproductions.
The Color Printer
Digital edition of John Earhart’s 1892 treatise on using colors in typographic printing
I really don't know how to describe this site. It's a large, intricate one-page animation. You can zoom in or out. That is all. Contains animated nudity.
Floor796
A huge animation scene with many references to memes, games, films, series, anime, music groups
Spine Magazine is an online publication devoted to book cover design and book culture. I linked to them back in 2022 when they featured a Vonnegut special, but they're worth checking out at the root url.
Plenty of interviews with designers, authors, and illustrators, and of course, lots of gorgeous book covers, including early drafts and alternates.
SPINE
Spine Magazine is an online publication devoted to book cover design and book culture.
Vyki Hendy
Nice to see the Cabin Porn blog is still active.
And here's one of my own cabin photos, from Paradise Cove, Vanuatu:
Hundreds more cabins on Cabin Porn's blog.
