There's a free puppet library in the basement of Emmanuel Church in Boston, MA. It is entered through the alley in back, Public Alley #437.
Venus Flytrap Puppet / Tiger Puppet / Fish Herders Puppets
If you're in Brooklyn on Monday, January 13, 2025, you can head to Wonderville and participate in robot karaoke:
Join us for karaoke night on impossible mode as we replace the lyrics to any SONG with words from any TEXT, then try to sing the results on the spot. It all happens live, so each song has never been heard before and will never be heard again.
Past combos include Yelp reviews of psychics to the tune of Total Eclipse of the Heart and Bernie Saunders Email Subject Lines to the tune of Don't Stop Believin'.
There’s a resurgence of small, handcrafted sites challenging the current trajectory of the internet. Joining the movement is as simple as making your own.
from Chia Amisola's excellent essay, Making Space for a Handmade Web. Just one of the Six Memos for the Future of Digital Creation.
Studio.Neat makes expensive but gorgeous notebooks (and other things).
Mused.com is like a Google Street View x Google Earth for place GSV and GE don't go. It describes itself as
Bringing Immersive Cultural Heritage Experiences to Gaming, Classrooms, and Libraries around the World.
Once you sign up for a free membership, you can do things like:
- Go Inside the Great Pyramid of Giza
- Explore the Maya Temples at Copán Ruinas
- Confront The Great Sphinx of Giza
Note that I had difficulty making this work with Google Chrome but it worked with every other browser I tried. My default is Arc.
The Public Domain Image Archive is exactly what you think it is.
Canadian Green Party leader Elizabeth May trolls Donald Trump regarding Canada becoming the 51st state.
In 2003, I had a miserable job at a miserable company called Butterfield & Robinson. There were some wonderful people there but the bosses' bosses were useless and I hated it. I lasted 13 months and — after doing a bunch of copy editing that I wasn't paid for — I quit and went back to being a freelance web designer.
Part of the culture at B&R was to have a "Daily Huddle" where the entire company would gather and discuss the previous day's business, as well as what was in the pike. The huddle was run by a different person every day and the company made a big deal out an employee's first huddle, which would come six months into your employment. You had to make it special. Most people did this with catering or special guests. I did it with music.
For my first huddle, I made two mixed CDs, which I called A Way of Doing and A Way of Being Done. I had a friend do the artwork and I made about 75 copies of each and gave them away at the huddle. The friend recently sent me the artwork and I've recreated the playlist for the first disc on Youtube. I'll post disc two in the future. If you're a member of A Tiny Bell, you can listen by playing the video below.
I'll also explain the CD titles and write a bit about my first day at the company, which was awesome and involved lunch with Sidney Pollack and stories about Stanley Kubrick.
You may recall Khaleel Seivwright, who during the pandemic built tiny homes for Toronto's unhoused. He was charged by the city and forced to cease construction. The city claimed it was their land and the structures were fire hazards.
Inspired by Seivwright, Ryan Donais is constructing Tiny Tiny Homes to solve the same issue. He's incorporated smoke detectors and put the structures on three wheels, therefore qualifying as bicycles under Toronto law.
You can get involved or donate to Tiny Tiny Homes on their website.
These untitled oil paintings are all by Brazilian artist Lucas Arruda. They're from his Deserto-Modelo series. If I showed these to my mother, she'd say, "Those aren't paintings. They're moods." She'd mean it as a compliment.
More here.
