I’m not sure exactly why, but at this time of year, when the leaves are changing (or at least I am expecting them to change…) from green to a patchwork outcry of reds, yellows and oranges, I often think about Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau kept such good records of climate and weather and nature data at Walden that they have become incredibly useful to scientists as a way of tracking the effects of climate change in one location of Concord, Mass.
Get Nightmare Puppeteer on Steam for $0.99 and make some strange stuff
Here’s a video with some new features in Nightmare Puppeteer- the game that makes animations
I added a few new “look” features just now and will continue to add more
I will continue to add features to NP.
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Hi hi hi. Okay, so I know that when you see words like “blonde” and “Taylor” in the vicinity of each other around these parts, you automatically assume I’m about to take you (willingly or not) into the Swiftverse—and you would not often be wrong. But not today, my friends! On Monday, I was scrolling through Instagram—likely avoiding a task I really needed to accomplish—when I saw a birthday post from Niki Taylor about her sister Krissy.
Every so often this little chart goes viral again, often with an invitation to readers to pick themselves, as it were, out of the image:
This apparently comes from, as the caption tells us, a 17th-century composition book. Now maybe they just had emotions Different in the late 17th century. A lot can change about subjective experience in four hundred years. Harold Bloom said Shakespeare invented human interiority only like a hundred years before that, so really, maybe it’s like how babies can’t see yet.
Ever sinceKelly Reichardt’s Showing Up came out earlier this year, I’ve been thinking a lot about the virtues of proportionality, of filmmakers who have the discipline to tell small stories that are rich in specific detail. “Termite art,” in other words. Showing Up is about a sculptor (Michelle Williams) and art-school instructor getting new pieces together for an exhibition at a small gallery that appears to be off the town’s main drag.