Morning frost on the fields

Christmas afternoon walk in the Kempen

Listening to the John Denver Christmas album with The Muppets. The best.

Firefox Color is a fun browser theming tool if you need a trivial reason to give Firefox a try. Here’s mine.

This morning I’m officially a legal resident in Belgium.

Pre-dawn Sunday morning documentation writing for a project that needed this months ago.

The Mellotron is right up my alley in its inherent tension between mechanized reproducibility and analog serendipity.

An impromptu recording of “Boat Song” with a real Mellotron one late night in L.A. remains one of my favorite touring memories.

The Public Domain Review is doing their end-of-year fundraiser. It’s a great resource, and if you sign up in time, you’ll get a thematic set of postcards. I’ve helped with a couple rounds of reward fulfillments in the past and can vouch for the effort and care that Adam puts into the project.

I would love to try to recreate how Hiva Alizadeh layers these threads in ways that work both sculpturally and as images.

🎙️ Just listened to the first episode of the Artist in the Archive podcast with Jer Thorp, currently ‘innovator-in-residence’ at Library of Congress. Looking forward to catching up on the rest of the catalog.

These handkerchiefs from the new Dries Van Noten line featuring art from Robert Beatty…

I love all the work the negative space does in these ink drawings of L.A. scenes by Christoph Niemann

Grim Grains is an online collection of vegan recipes by Rekka Bellum. I love the specificity and intentionality of every element.

Sarah is in Le Monde on the reopening of the Tervuren museum in the context of the debates of recent weeks sparked by the report on cultural restitution submitted to Macron.

I’ve been using SourceNote for a couple of days now and have found it helpful. It’s invisible until you need it. Great low friction way to save ephemeral or scratch text without losing momentum in your work.

I’ve been using MarsEdit as a drafts drawer for microblogging posts—a place to drop links to things I’d like to post later. It has me posting more things that I’d otherwise forget to return to.

These orange banded quarter-cylinder tiles make for one of my favorite doorways on the morning commute.

Love this peekaboo window over the water in the little café by our house.

Rainy afternoon bike ride

Aquarium Drunkard has launched a new format. It’s exciting to see a small online publisher growing rather than packing it in.

There are some great looking 5.25” floppy sleeves archived here, but I’m partial to this cornball exclamation point made from the hole in the diskette.

Warren Ellis on what he would want from a status page has me thinking again about one of those back-burner projects that has been hanging around too too long.

🎵 Listening to Willie’s ’Local Memory’ a few times today trying to conjure a thing into being.

Taking time away from client work to do some personal organizing at a cafe by the Zuivelbrug.

Playing with some procedural distortions of landscape photos from the Farm Security Administration collection at Library of Congress

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has made over 500 art and art history books available for free.

I wish the PDF downloads were OCR’ed, but at least the Google Books editions are searchable.

Too much troubleshooting of my Mastodon instance; not enough working.

Today’s Gent-area library workspace is at the café at De Krook

A Leffe and a bucket of spaghetti after the race

Kasterlee Marathon starting line

Some New Cities is my new favorite Twitter bot, but it also makes me realize I increasingly wish I could follow these things on the fediverse or via RSS instead of on Twitter.

Kasterlee Marathon this morning will be my second in three weeks. Will be mostly through the woods in mud and in the low 40s.

Killing time until the late start is the hardest part.

I wish this interview with Mat Dryhurst deeper on the power crypto could artists to control their creative assets but I‘m intrigued to follow up on his work more elsewhere.

Nice concept: Website for Emily Cockayne‘s upcoming history of re-use collects essays on material that didn’t make the book (good use of the .work TLD as well) www.rummage.work

Today’s Ghent-area library workspace is at De Krook.

Tiny art as pastime garciabuxton.com/2018/11/t…

I had not considered the idea that Rockstar‘s corpus is largely historical, but Robert Whitaker’s exploration for Eurogamer is interesting.