A decent interview with Signal's President, Meredith Whittaker.
If you don't know Signal, it's a communications app similar to Telegram or Whatsapp or FB Messenger, but it's not run by creeps or owned by a billionaire narcissist.
It's available on Android and iOS and is free. You can reach me on Signal at atinybe.11.
Rarefilmm is an archive of 100s of hard-to-find, little-known, or mostly-forgotten films. I've bookmarked a few for future watch: the documentary Pasolini, un delitto italiano (Who Killed Pasolini); Peter Bogdanovich's At Long Last Love; Pedro Costa's O Sangue; Xích lô; Bashu; and, just for laughs, the english-dubbed version of one of my all-time favorite films, Le Samourai (directed by JP Melville): The Godson, pictured below.
Some of Bernhard Lang's award-winning aerial photography. These are from his Adria Series and were taken from a helicopter in Italy in 2014. More on his site.
AlphaGuess is a web-based game where you try to guess the letter of the day based on clues as to where that letter falls alphabetically in relation to your most recent guess.
Great idea over on Kickstarter for the first foldable cargo box for your bicycle. Unfortunately for me it requires a rear rack, which my bike doesn't support, but I imagine many folks finding this useful.
The campaign ends this week so hop on it if you're keen.
Idehen's terrific music video explaining communism, fascism, liberalism and many other isms. Clever and cheeky.
The BBC has opened up its sound effects library. Everything free to download — more than 33,000 sounds!
via The Quietus
"Why are buildings today simple and austere, while buildings of the past were ornate and elaborately ornamented? The answer is not the cost of labor."
Samuel Hughes' piece for Work In Progress explores this idea.
"I want to sit for _____ minutes" is the idea behind Sit.
Sit is Rafal Pastuszak's site for doing nothing. It's a good'n.
Since 2010, Docastaway has sent travelers to deserted islands with no training, no company, and few supplies. And business is booming.
Interesting read here.
Jen Rose Smith
