Design books
Blueprints: How mathematics shapes creativity by Marcus du Sautoy
#Boosky #books #design #designbooks #math
Posts by Steven Forth
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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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
A thoughtful piece on how we organize our own and our families stories
whoami.wiki/blog/persona...
#informationarchitecture #stories #photos
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
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.
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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.
#Booksky #2books #translation
Recent paintings
And this morning's notebook calligraphy...
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 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
#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #origami #math
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.
#Booksky #2books #translation
The English language partner site to Les libraires, from the same team.
www.booksellers.ca
#Booksky #Canada #books
Wonderful site supported by independent Quebec bookstores. Worth browsing.
www.leslibraires.ca
#Booksky #books #Canada #Quebec
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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