Read: Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland edited by Kathleen Jamie ★★★★★ 📚
Marvellous anthology astonished me, the range of writers on what I consider my sphere of interest that I had not read. Lots to follow up, just one e.g. Amanda Thomson Art.
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Click Bath is an audio ambient sauna, created by Hamish Lang
Simply click around, fiddle with some knobs, and make some noises!
via joe jenett
Read: Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki ★★★☆☆ 📚
3 girls growing up in Greece, lovely scenery, with the feel of long repetitive summer days. A lot going on behind the scenes that slowly emerge.
Grand Prize Winner Nisha Alberti (Edinburgh, Scotland) Source material: A gynaecologist strokes his long red beard. C. Josef, c. 1930 | Wellcome Collection via Europeana 3 Runners-up...
GIF IT UP is an annual gif-making competition for the most creative reuse of digitised cultural heritage material. It is run by Europeana in close cooperation with Digital Public Library of America, Digital NZ and Trove. In 2020 new content partners joined the fun – Japan Search and DAG Museums in Kolkata, while this year we welcome the Art Institute of Chicago.
HT to Paul Bond for reminding me. Some nice entries. I have entered In the past but forgot about Gif it up. A fun way to draw attention to some serious sharing of digital by museums and libraries.
We had a walk round Ardinning this morning, first time I’ve had boots on since testing positive on the 12 November. 2 and a bit flat miles was enough! Muddy. Grey day with low clouds and a bit of rain. No wind at all!
The two, berry covered, rowan trees outside our flat have been nearly completely striped by redwings over the last day or two.
Why is a manufacturer allowed to create an inherently distracting live video which takes over 2/3 of the screen which the driver relies on for all vehicle information?
“Passenger Play”, Another tech billionaire at work?
Hand stamped ‘Under Dubwood’, no other details. The sender clearly wished to remain anonymous.
Wandering around the internet in the insomniac hours I find Caught by the River an interesting gathering of nature, poetry & culture &:
The nitwit founder of Facebook has created the worst, most damaging website in the world. And we’re just supposed to accept it.
Americans represent only about 10 percent of Facebook’s users, but nearly 85 percent of the efforts that the company has put toward stemming the spread of misinformation has been focused on the U.S.
Scoundrel seems a mite gentle given the content of the article.
Via jwz
Read: The Union of Synchronised Swimmers by Cristina Sandu ★★★★☆📚Sad tales, elliptical fragments for the lives of six defectors that sync together a story.