The people (person?) behind the YouTube channel Abandoned Films has finally taken on the Matrix, making a 50s-esque trailer for the film using AI.
AF have done a bunch of these before. I'm not sure what their relationship to Demon Flying Fox is, but surely they're related.
Apple is offering a free download of Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale's The You You Are in ebook or audiobook form (read by the actor).
For the confused among you, this is a fictional copy of a non-fiction book featured in the fictional Apple TV+ show, Severance.
In addition, the newly release Season 2 has an extraordinary new opening credits:
The sequence was created by Oliver Latta (A/K/A Extraweg), who has been making fantastic work for years:
Recently, I was at a party celebrating Robbie Burns Day and someone mentioned a show called Love On the Spectrum, which I’d never heard of. After listening to the description, I recalled a documentary from the 90s called How’s Your News?, about a team of developmentally challenged reporters. No one at the party had heard of it. Of course, the whole thing is on YouTube. I do remember it fondly.
Anthony Howe makes huge wind-powered sculptures, often out of stainless steel.
Sculptures range in price from US$45K to $400K.
More on Howe’s site and YouTube Channel.
Over the course of his prolific and varied design career, Jens Quistgaard created a series of peppermills for Dansk Designs.
The Peppermills of Jens Quistgaard is an exhaustive look at his designs.
Wonderful project: MakeItYourself.Org is a free, downloadable book (PDF) of illustrations, each of which links to instructions on how to make the item in question:
Across the world creative people are making high quality things of all kinds and sharing their work freely with all of humanity. Make it Yourself showcases this incredible talent, bringing together over 1000 useful DIY projects to demonstrate just what is possible when you make things yourself. Each featured item links directly to their original project websites, where you’ll find everything needed to make them.
Over three decades, Aadam Jacobs obsessively documented Chicago’s indie rock scene. Today, the future of his roughly 10,000 live recordings is unclear.
From WBEZ: Chicago's Hidden Indie Rock Archive by Monica Eng.
The Homosaurus is an international linked data vocabulary of LGBTQ+ terms. Designed to enhance broad subject term vocabularies, the Homosaurus is a robust and cutting-edge thesaurus that advances the discoverability of LGBTQ+ resources and information.
This week saw the launch of two services that randomly serve up servings of the Small Web / Indie Web. What is the Small or Indie Web? You’re soaking in it!
A Tiny Bell and other personal blogs are part of it. If you like this kind of content, you may want to check out:
IndieBlog.Page which has an Open Random Blog Post button that you can click or add to your browser as an extension. Hit it when you need a fix.
The second such service is by Kagi, a Google competitor you may wish to check out. Theirs is called Kagi Small Web Randomizer. Simply click that link to be taken to a random part of the Small Web. It’s sourced from a curated list.
I hate the man, but POTUSTracker is a very well-designed website not for just tracking Trump physically (where is he?), but his actions and that of his administration. I imagine this information would be useful for concerned citizens, news junkies, and assassins alike.
There is also a Trump Golf Tracker.
