Design books

Blueprints: How mathematics shapes creativity by Marcus du Sautoy

#Boosky #books #design #designbooks #math

1st lines

The shepherd oft foretells by simple ways
The weathers change that will ere long prevail
He marks the dull ass that grows long and brays
And sees the old cows gad along the vail
A summer race and snuff the coming gale
...

John Clare around 1824

#1stlines #poetry #England

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

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Cities and Memory - global sound map, field recording and sound art Cities and Memory is a global collaborative sound art, sound map & field recording project - remixing the world, one sound at a time.

Many fascinating things to explore here. Reminds me a bit of R. Murray Schaefer's soundscapes.

citiesandmemory.com

#urban #memory #sound #soundscapes

I have been looking for ways to better integrate my current experiences and recent memories into my AI work. This looks worth exploring.

lab.puga.com.br/cog/

#AI #memory #RAG

Personal Encyclopedias — whoami.wiki

A thoughtful piece on how we organize our own and our families stories

whoami.wiki/blog/persona...

#informationarchitecture #stories #photos

Agentic AI and the next intelligence explosion The "AI singularity" is often miscast as a monolithic, godlike mind. Evolution suggests a different path: intelligence is fundamentally plural, social, and relational. Recent advances in agentic AI re...

Fascinating piece from the Google AI team on multithreaded reasoning.

Agentic AI and the next intelligence explosion

arxiv.org/abs/2603.20639

#AI #reasoning #agents

Design books

Mathematical Origami: Geometrical shapes by paper folding (Volume 2) by David Mitchell

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #origami #maths

1st lines

From birth, from the first astonishing moment
when he pecked his way out of the shell, pure fluff,
he was looking for something - warmth, food, love
or light, or darkness - we are all the same stuff,

PK Page from Hologram 1994

#1stlines #poetry #Canada #BC

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Have We Chosen to Forget the 2021 Heat Dome and Lytton Disaster? | The Tyee An auditor general’s report could add to understanding. If people paid attention.

BC has joined the Liberals and CPC in ignoring the losses caused by climate change (this has gone well beyond risk)

Have We Chosen to Forget the 2021 Heat Dome and Lytton Disaster? by Geoff Meggs via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

#Canada #BC #NDP #climatechange

Design books

Folding Polyhedra: The Art & Geometry of Paper Folding by Alexander Heinz

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1st lines

So moping flat and low our valleys lie
So dull and muggy is our winter sky
Drizzling from day to day dull threats of rain
And when that falls still threatening on again
From one wet week so great an ocean flows
...

John Clare around 1824

#1stlines #poetry #England

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

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Recent paintings

And this morning's notebook calligraphy...

Just 14 Species Have ‘Genuinely’ Improved on BC’s At-Risk Lists | The Tyee That’s out of 2,642 struggling species tracked in a new wildlife study.

BC should become a world leader in protecting biodiversity.

Just 14 Species Have 'Genuinely' Improved on BC's At-Risk Lists by Sarah Cox via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...

#Canada #BC #climatechange

Translations from Tomisawa Kakio's Snake Flute Modernist postwar haiku

Translations from Tomisawa Kakio 富澤赤黄男 (1902-1962) first published in Moving Letters 13 back in 1989.

foldingnotes.substack.com/p/translatio...

#poetry #haiku #Japan

Design books

The Art & Science of Geometric Origami: Create Spectacular Paper Polyhedra, Waves, Spirals, Fractals and More! by Jun Maekawa

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1st lines read each morning

descend upon
the breathing monument

my family
of apparitions
is select
through dim

hours between
birds and darkness

from Birds by Molly Schaeffer 2011

#1stlines #poetry

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

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Design books

Art of Sound: Creativity in Film Sound and Electroacoustic Music by Andrew Knight-Hill and Emma Margetson

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #sound #music

1st lines read each morning

I too went out
to meet the dust
early in the morning

interleaf shakes dry
faceless birhters

dreamily warring fleets

from Birds by Molly Schaeffer 2011

#1stlines #poetry

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

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booksellers.ca | Purchase print books and eBooks online A network of over 100 bookstores, more than 500,000 print books or eBooks, unparalleled expertise. It is possible to buy local on the Web!

The English language partner site to Les libraires, from the same team.

www.booksellers.ca

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leslibraires.ca | Acheter des livres papier et numériques en ligne Un réseau de plus de 100 librairies, plus de 500 000 livres papier ou numérique, une expertise inégalée. Acheter local sur le Web, c'est possible!

Wonderful site supported by independent Quebec bookstores. Worth browsing.

www.leslibraires.ca

#Booksky #books #Canada #Quebec

Freesias for Jocelyn A birthday. gift

Freesias for Jocelyn

Learning the five word line from Zukofsky's 80 Flowers.

foldingnotes.substack.com/p/freesias-f...

#poetry #flowers #Zukofsky #condensation

Design books

The Art of Immersion: Entertainment In A Connected World
by Frank Rose

#Booksky #books #desigb=n #designbooks #entertainment

1st lines

The juicey wheat now spindles into ear
And trailing pea blooms ope their velvet eyes
And weeds and flowers by crowds far off and near
In all their sunny liverys appear
For summer lustre boasts unnumbered dyes
...

John Clare around 1824

#1stlines #poetry #England

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

New series

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