Sunny seaside photo of St Leonards-on-Sea. The picture is divided horizontally in four sections: pavement, pebbles, sea and blue sky. A line of bunting coincides with the horizon. A couple with their backs to us faces the sea.
horizon, with added bunting
Visiting St Leonards soon, wish it were open already
Urban street scene. On the right pavement, the black top part of a rounded litter bin — tilted diagonally backwards towards the thin metal railings of a metal fence — rests precariously on the rim of the internal rubbish container.
laughing his head off
Striking red and orange tulips.
incandescent
The worst radioactive accident outside of a nuclear power plant happened in Goiânia (Brazil) one year after Chernobyl. Radioactive Emergency (miniseries now on Netflix, essential viewing) shows the efforts to contain contamination & help the victims + the institutional errors leading to the tragedy
Postcard filled mostly with the figure of a buck. A small helicopter is seen on the top left. The poem related to the postcard showing birds lays next to this first postcard.
Format and environment matters. Time matters. Just a few tweaks and we could also have had more of Helen DeWitt’s good work supported in 2026 (screenshots from the Windham-Campbell Festival video) 5/5
Short poem written on the back of a postcard next to the front of the second postcard, which shows birds on top of a fence.
…of making something new instead of rewriting the same kind of poem again and again. Opening borders. The video shows how confident and fluent she is in bringing new images and text to life, the conversation progressing simultaneously without missing a beat 4/5
A woman’s hand adds colour to one of two postcards on top of a notebook.
I asked her about the stress of drawing, doing something she didn’t think she was good at — during quarantine, she had started sending postcards with a drawing and a poem to people she didn’t know. She compared it to challenges of any new work… 3/5
A woman’s hand holds a sharpie while writing on the back of a postcard.
In her most relaxed Windham-Campbell video, she draws the whole time while chatting to her husband, the scholar José Ángel Maldonado. Lines and colour and meaningful dialogue seem to animate and free her more and more 2/5
Two postcards in the process of being drawn are seen on top of a notebook on a table. A woman’s hand holds a coloured pencil.
I started thinking about the Windham-Campbell Prize and anxiety when the poet Natalie Scenters-Zapico was selected in 2021. She’s always been open about the weight of this feeling on her creative and professional life 1/5
A new print of the wallpaper shows its patterns clearly. It is in the same room at Shaw House where the original wallpaper survives.
Time regained
Worn out wallpaper in light blue with only one circle of its black-and-white pattern clearly visible.
Time
Black and white photo of the Elizabethan house. Metal watering cans in front of a raised bed can be seen in the foreground.
Shaw House
Cartoon image showing a variety of signs saying ‘Rabbit Season’ in front of tree trunks.
Happy Rabbit Season
Stained glass on the wall behind the altar.
St John Passion, St George’s Hanover Square (Bach in Handel’s church)
‘First in Space’ written in Russian on top of a poster on the side of a building. It shows an image of Gagarin smiling in front of blue skies where the planet earth is being encircled by what looks like a passing comet.
‘First in Space’ — a pal is visiting Transnistria and I cannot get enough of this virtual, strangely topical ride.
Me too :)
Well, just a fly-by :)
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3D particle life running on browser using WebGPU/WGSL - najarro.science/pl
A vertical red fluorescent light surrounded by two yellow ones.
Dan Flavin (David Zwirner)
Lectern cloth in red with a golden strip running through its middle. Purple and red Lenten shrouds are seen behind the golden altar. Background walls show mosaic figures separated by columns, a crucifix in the central niche.
Lenten shrouds (Our Lady of Assumption & St Gregory)
Detail from a woodcut from Dürer's Apocalypse, showing a man (St John) devouring a book. Source: http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:29-uer-dr-ah-0333-5
Text mining before the age of LLM training.
‘squashed as though someone had tried resizing him in a Word document and forgot to lock the aspect ratio’ (or, the superior quality of alt text for owls)
ALT, photo no. 4: the pale hand of the deceased is being held between the hands of the main actress.
Man with glasses in front of a bedroom window, a crucifix on the wall.
Mother and daughter in a bedroom with two single beds.
Blurry scene seen through an open door — woman sitting down in front of an occasional table; someone else sits opposite her.
A Hand to Hold — hilarious, horrific, hard-to-let-go short film. Frank Bourke is great as the doctor.
‘organisations adopt quantitative rules not because numbers are more accurate but because they are more defensible. Judgment is politically vulnerable. Rules are not. The procedure exists to make discretion disappear, or seem to’
A red pepper lies on tarmac, a few fag ends to its left, both located in between pavement and yellow line.
fag ends & veg
If asked to draw a person's portrait, many people would say “I cannot draw.” Why is observational drawing so hard? In a new paper, @judithfan.bsky.social and I answer: it's the limitations of human vision. Learning to draw is learning skills to overcome them.
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Round green blob on white background. At the bottom, ‘A hazel leaf in August’ is written in a darker shade of green.
Round green blob on white background. At the top and bottom of the book cover it reads ‘Pure Colour’ in black and ‘Sheila Heti’ in gold.
Hazelnut Leaf and Pure Colour (Rose Wylie, 2017, and Sheila Heti/Ellsworth Kelly, 2022/1964-5)
Magnolia in bloom hides the brick of a Victorian house, a snail camouflages as part of a branch, sky’s diagonal blue lights the top left of the photo.
snail
