Nice examples of blackout poetry from the master. I must remember to get my class to do some this session.
A batch of newspaper blackout poems.
Category Archives: Micro
Read Second Place by Rachel Cusk ★★★★☆ 📚 pretty intense narrator who is obsessed with self absorbed artist.
Kilpatrick Muir today, heather very much in bloom, few butterflies about despite the overcast weather. Peacock & Green Veined White.
Lofi music streams for studying, working, and relaxing.
lofi.cafe – lofi music 🎧, last session I played a bit of this type of music, from YouTube in class. Went down quite well. Think this may be useful. Via @joejenett‘s pointers
Today’s walk round the Glen Douglas Trio, with photos and map walkmap
WordPress Patterns
Common Blue 
White (green veined or small) 
Small Tortoiseshell
I just switched to the block editor to test out the new WordPress Block patterns feature.
You go to the pattern library, copy a pattern and paste it into your editor. I did that here and replace the 3 images that it came with. I added some captions. Using this pattern.
Here is another pattern.
And the days are not full enough.
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass
– Ezra Pound
I don’t think I am quite ready for the Block Editor yet but these look interesting.
A ‘video’ of the flickr photos I’ve posted over the summer holidays. generated mostly with this script.
Back to school today.
My summer consisted in part of:
Gartnavel Walled Garden, in gentle rain. Shortly followed by thunderous downpour.
Why Instagram’s creatives are angry about its move to video
Sarah Frier documents how Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom wanted Instagram to be an outlet for artists (in a high-school essay, Systrom wrote that he liked how photography could “inspire others to look at the world in a new way”).
And
Click on Instagram today and you will still see plenty of photos, but you’ll also be confronted with a carousel of short, vertical videos (known as “Reels”) as well as the more-than-occasional ad. In his video, Mosseri explained that “the number one reason people say that they use Instagram in research is to be entertained” and the app was going to “lean into that trend” by experimenting with video. Citing TikTok and YouTube as competition, Mosseri said Instagram would “embrace video” and users could expect a number of changes in the coming months.
I use Instagram, I don’t see much of the work of “creatives” ’cause I don’t follow any. I do see an increasing number of adverts and have hated the changes like algorithmic photo order, lack of linking and locked down API.
Almost everyone I follow on Instagram I have met. It is the only place I follow relatives. I’d love to be able to follow then in micro.blog or some other nicer place. Interoperability please.