SEPULCHRAL MONUMENTS is tbf an irresistibly metal album name.

The machine (which Joh hallucinates as Moloch) from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.

BRB just looking up the going rate to sell a kidney.

“Height: 29 inches x Width: 10 inches“ 💙🤍💙🤍💙 Oh how I want them. [stares wretechedly at price tag]

Woooooooooohay! Oh this has totally made my day. absolutely exquisite work.

This is 😻😻😻

(Also: is that - could it be? - the Toast Rack in Fallowfield?)

Oh thank you. i love it when things like this happen and I realise I have absolutely zero clue about (in this case) the history of nail polish. This looks like the perfect Sunday work-avoiding rabbit hole…

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When did wild this wild become an option?

Unable not to overthink things = now curious about the history of colour ranges. How cd one quantify change over time? Superficially easy to visualise (or easy to visualise superficially?) but hard to describe. What do trajectories of colour look like?

Celebrate Long'uro | Reteti Elephant Sanctuary This April, we’re celebrating Long’uro, and preparing for his future. Join us, and help write Long'uro's next chapter.

If like me, you‘re reading this wiping away tears right now, you should know that my friend Dorothy and the Reteti team need donations to do their work.

I’ve been an adoptive parent of Long’uro since day 1 so perhaps I’m biased but everything about it is ❤️

www.reteti.org/celebrate-lo...

Thank you

This probably isn’t what you have in mind but the concept of the «research museum» came up prepping for <cough> a job I was pitching for last year. (Don’t ask how that went). Some of its bibliography may be useful?

journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/article/the-...

The neverfail go-to when I’m in the doghouse and need to buy my way back into my mums good books.

(A glug of Baileys with the cream doesn’t go amiss either.)

I still shudder to recall the awful day my supervisor took me on one side to break the bad news about the House of Bourbon.

Metal detectorist finds original design prototype for custard cream.

Tom Waits - The Black Rider (Magic Bullets) Robert Wilson_tv 1990 YouTube video by Рудольф Росс

YES. But to tide us over until then…

The Black Rider
m.youtube.com/watch?v=lbQk...

Woyzeck
m.youtube.com/watch?v=3LD-...

Alice
m.youtube.com/watch?v=yKLl...

Love this *to smithereens*. The specific form - a dossier of full primary texts threaded together by commentary - is a banger and would work if anything even better in print (where I can’t get distracted by hyperlinks). Must already exist but I would buy any number of nanohistories in dossier format

Fwiw I keep a sticky note always on my desktop with my five or six go-to characters as I find it easier to copy & paste than remember the Unicode key chords.

I don’t understand any of this at all (nor am I daft enough to believe it is argued in good faith) and I happily count myself out of it but if it’s normal to be in a relationship with somebody whose politics appal you, how do you even have e.g. a conversation?

Saxton’s unfeasibly gorgeous map of the North Riding of Yorkshire

Saxton (my new vector georeferencing app) is named for Christopher Saxton (the Elizabethan cartographer)

Byrne, M St Clare. “The Queen’s Map-Maker.” In Elizabethan Life in Town & Country. Taylor & Francis 2025.

Tyacke, Sarah & John Huddy. Christopher Saxton & Tudor Map Making. British Library 1980

💯 I like to tell myself that implementing finicky polynomial georeference transformations in software is essentially hard living rock n roll wildness almost indistinguishable from touring the world (and other places) in an iconic NWOBHM band back in the eighties.

GitHub - gjhilton/Saxton Contribute to gjhilton/Saxton development by creating an account on GitHub.

Wrote a software for #skystorians using #QGIS to digitise historic maps

Draw in Illustrator → Run Saxton → Import into QGIS as georeferenced editable vectors

github.com/gjhilton/Sax...

Written in a rush to support a project I'm working on so caveat emptor, but I'm finding it a game changer IYKYK.

Finally the Hegseth episode we've all been wanting.

For comparison: the Nine Inch Noize set design & visuals from Coachella last weekend (which is iiuc just a one-off show?)

Design for live music is in an entirely different league... yes, perhaos of budget but more importantly of craft and artistry.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=C3cL...

Stage image of gatsby. hugely derivative of the luhrman film

stage image of paddington. honestly dont have the heart to descibe it. by-numbers rote musical box set. the chicago set and a thousand others but in the wildly original colour scheme of blue and orange

into the woods. red riding hood in a moody forest scene at the door of a wooden hut. legit great image and a++ lx design too

stereophonic. highly realistic with a touch of edward hopper. foreground the control room of a recording studio, background recording booths.

Oliviers = 999% trash yes but that set design category... what the actual hell

Paul Tate dePoo III
The Great Gatsby (London Coliseum)

WINNER Tom Pye (set) Ash J Woodward (video)
Paddington: The Musical (Savoy)

Tom Scutt Into the Woods (Bridge)

David Zinn Stereophonic (Duke of York’s)

Also: manifold.umn.edu/projects/spe... is free to read online....

Even better, it's Open Access! 🎉

mitpress.mit.edu/978026205367...

Notwithstanding the somewhat offputting 'worldbuilding' (did we really need this word? Perhaps the book will convince me.) OH GODS YES I NEED THIS. Thank you tons and tons and tons.

(Hoping for lots of Surkov.)

On which puns see Lloyd, Christopher. Enchanting the Eye: Dutch Paintings of the Golden Age. Royal collection publ, 2004 153-6. archive.org/details/ench... Eg: the signature, Steen, lhs column. In stone. Stone! Steen! Geddit? Others: astonishly, misogynistic. Also, astonishingly misogynistic.

Pre-2022 data is like pre-1945 steel.

WOW! this is amazing THANK YOU TONS

This looks truly outstanding and I desperately wish I could do it but £15 Eventbrite fee is the straw that backed up the broke camel.