My Recent Media Diet, The “It’s Not Life or Death, It’s Just Tacos” Edition

I keep track of every media thing I “consume”, so here are quick reviews of some things I’ve read, seen, heard, and experienced in the past two months. I never wrote a proper report on my trip to Mexico City, so I put some of the highlights in here. I’m in the middle of…

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is a documentary film on the legendary Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved. Navigating a white, male world wasn’t threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were, and I wasn’t afraid to show it. The film o…

Advanced slit-scan

Baku Hashimoto: Let's say there's a quite thick flipbook that all frames of a video are bound page by page. If you just rifle through it, the original video will be just played. Slit-scan intrinsically means slicing the flipbook diagonally. [...] I think the name of "slit-scan"…

Photo Book Project Documents America’s Bowling Alleys and its Bowlers

Looking for fresh documentary photography projects that you can explore in photo book form? We spotted an interesting project by Jeff Sonnabend, who is currently funding a print run of his art quality photo book titled Bowling the American Dream. Whether you're interested in spo…

Nate Rochefort: Photographing Imaginary Planets Made of Everyday Stuff

Mankind has been turning to the stars and planets from our solar system and beyond in the name of art and science. With so much still out there to discover, the cosmos remains a potent source of creative inspiration for many. Take Nate Rochefort, for example, who has been busy m…

Cheap Photo: Who Wants Over 1000 Text Overlays for Just $29?

Have you ever wanted to be able to create professional looking invitations, greeting cards, announcements and souvenirs quickly, and easily? If so this amazing sale is for you. We have found a limited time deal that will get you over 1,000 incredible text overlays that will help…

Cheap Photo: SanDisk Ultra 64GB Card for $11.99; ND Filter Kit for $21.99

Work smarter not harder. That's what I was always told growing up, and the same rings true today. These photography accessories will definitely allow you to work smarter, and they will help you create amazing images. Need some more SD cards? The SanDisk Ultra 64GB is just $11.99…

Lomography Announces First Petzval Art Lens for Mirrorless Market

Those who are looking into adding some bokeh goodness to their photos may want to check out the latest in Lomography's Art Lens lineup. Say hello to the new Petzval 55mm f1.7 MKII, which the company has recently announced as the first Lomography Art Lens that it especially desig…

Facebook refuses to delete fake Pelosi video spread by Trump supporters

So instead of that video, let's watch this video instead.2020 is going to be awesome. Facebook says it will continue to host a video of Nancy Pelosi that has been edited to give the impression that the Democratic House Speaker is drunk or unwell, in the latest incident highlight…

Motivation

Concept Drawings from Studio Ghibli Movies

Tales From Weirdland has a collection of posts that feature concept drawings from several Studio Ghibli movies like Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Castle in the Sky. I poked around a little and found artwork & concept drawings from Princess Mononoke, The…

McHive, the World’s Smallest McDonald’s (for Bees)

A few McDonald’s restaurants in Sweden started putting beehives on their rooftops to help save dwindling bee populations and it turned into a national sustainability effort. More franchisees around the country are joining the cause and have also started replacing the grass…

Four short links: 24 May 2019

Forms by Configuration, GitHub Sponsors, SpaceX's LEO Internet, and a Gallery of Programmer Interfaces ncform -- a very nice configuration generation way to develop forms. GitHub Sponsors -- allowing donations. Starlink -- SpaceX is developing a low latency, broadband…

This Week in the IndieWeb

May 17-24, 2019 Recent EventsFrom indieweb.org/events#Recent: Homebrew Website Club Meetup Thursday, May 23 at 6:00pm BRIGHTON, England: ClearleftHomebrew Website Club Meetup Join us for an evening of IndieWeb personal site demos and discussions! Any questions? Ask in the cha…

Deep Time Fakes

Machine learning brings old paintings and photos to life: Machine learning researchers have produced a system that can recreate lifelike motion from just a single frame of a person's face, opening up the possibility of animating not just photos but also paintings. It's not perfe…

5G Networks Could Throw Weather Forecasting Into Chaos

NOAA's acting chief said that interference from 5G wireless phones could reduce the accuracy of forecasts by 30 percent. That's equivalent, he said, to the quality of weather predictions four decades ago. "If you look back in time to see when our forecast scale was roughly 30 pe…