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Meanwhile, April 2025
Sweeping the best hyperlinks out of my tabs and onto your desk
Penguin’s fever dream
Penguin Archive, book covers of note and designers hating their jobs
There’s only make
Harland Miller, Corita Kent and The Perimeter
Louise Giovanelli and other Cleopatri
Your regular dose of hyperlinks to keep you distracted and docile
This is the end … of 2024
Back once again.
Holy Land USA
Also wild gods, thrice-bevalleyed monuments and Mr Kipling’s exceedingly good zombies.
Brutalist plants
Plus severance, steel and the shackles of time.
Darkness doubled
And other gift ideas!
Laments of the undisciplined
Put your things in and behave like an artist.
Other people's letters
It’s a jolly post, man.
Meanwhile, bury it underground
Chopping Caravaggio and hanging out with Sir Clive Sinclair.
Bananapocalypse now
The whole goddamned point of the web.
Robot wilderness
And frogspawn, gravel, ribbons, the usual.
Erin Kissane on going offline and into the dark forest
Fantastic talk by Erin Kissane at this summer’s XOXO Festival (via Kottke), in which she talks about going offline, her time with the Covid Tracking Project and how we need to to fix the social internet: A lot of us remember what it was like to live and work
Meanwhile #216
Authentic twiddling in the dark forest.
Fine holography
No money, no virality, no response.
Meanwhile #214
Whatever you're saying is true for about as long as you're saying it
Meanwhile #213
Like bringing a forklift into the weight room.
Meanwhile #212
Gazing towards the infinite and towards the bowels of mother earth … and muffins!
Meanwhile #211
Tappity tap tap, clicky click click.
Meanwhile #210
It’ll make a new kind of sense when seen together.
Meanwhile #209
Showing up with a random burst of motivation
Disintegration
Read. Read dammit READ.