Just like last year, I’ll be taking a break over the next four or five weeks, so this is a shorter issue than would normally drop into your inbox. I hope that you enjoy this selection of links and pics, feel free to get in touch, and look forward to catching up later in the summer.
We had a trip to Virginia, more about that below.
I hope that you’re well and enjoying some time to catch up on things, or that you’re coming to end of Spring and looking forward to a few days of sunshine and reading a book.
Here are a few things that caught my eye this week.
Fascinating reading this series from The Guardian following the murders of climate activists Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips. They laid bare the environmental destruction of the Amazon and the battle to protect the rainforest and the Indigenous peoples who live there.
Most evenings at the moment you’ll find me trying to learn how to make low-poly models in Blender. I’m hoping it’s also helping my spanish.
I wondered if anyone has used this Immersive Web Emulator? I’m trying to find versions of WebXR that work on a mac and came across this interesting tool that I might use with my students.
I wrote about my use of oblique strategies, the card game devised by Brian Eno and artist Peter Schmidt. There’s a list of them here.
I’m still recovering from the last episode of Succession. I quite enjoyed some of the write ups and I’ve been listening to the Oysters, Clams and Cockles Podcast every week. Oh my word, I enjoyed that so much. I was so nervous for Greg…
I was very moved by Heather Cox Richardson’s Memorial Day post, where she talks about the pamphlet that was given to soldiers in WW2 about Fascism. It is horribly precedent, although you don’t have to look far for today’s examples.
Just three days to go until Apple’s Developer Conference, will they finally unveil a mixed reality headset? Getting in just ahead of Apple, Meta announce Meta Quest 3. They are still market leaders, but for how long?
Nice to dip into a few people’s beautiful print sites, this one _stranford and t_zuan0321. That reminds me, my friend Kim is at the Three Rivers Arts Festival, if you’re in Pittsburgh, go and see her!
If you drive around Pittsburgh, you’ll inevitably find parking chairs placed in the street just outside a house to reserve the spot for whoever lives there. I wonder if anywhere else does this, you see them everywhere!
I’m heading to Minneapolis next week for CALICO, maybe see you there!
This is what I’m listening to as I type and edit an article, first streamed during lockdown. I keep returning to it, love when teenage birdsong kicks around the half-hour mark. Might not be for everyone… I understand.
Thank You
We traveled to Fairfax, VA just outside Washington, DC for a soccer tournament and spent Saturday afternoon at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum near Dulles. I have to say it was pretty impressive, with commercial and military craft packed into a huge hanger. I was fascinated to see Space Shuttle Discovery, the enormity of which I hadn’t realised, standing below its wings, and walking around its huge engines. This is the Shuttle that CMU graduate Judith Resnick crewed on its maiden launch, a few years before she died in ill-fated Challenger disaster in 1986. Discovery completed 39 missions, the last of those in 2011, launching satellites and telescopes, including Hubble, and servicing the International Space Station. It is pretty cool looking bit of kit, and I was quite taken with the black type used on the craft, a slightly modified version of Helvetica.
okay, I think that’s everything. See you next week.