links/2023w28

• Thinking I'll pre-address my cremated remains to the "Mail Recovery Center" and save everyone the trouble: USPS Has 452 Packages Of Unidentified Cremated Remains | HuffPost

• Damn: Anchor Brewing, ‘America’s first craft brewery,’ to close after 127 years | Washington Post

• Man Linked To Viral Dress Photo Faces Attempted Murder Charge | HuffPost

• Amazing conversation with director Matt Reeves about his work; his enthusiasm for and love of cinema is infectious. Also, I need to rewatch CLOVERFIELD: Team Deakins: MATT REEVES - Director | Team Deakins pod

• Ahem, fuck the studios and the AI hobbyhorse they rode in on: Hollywood Studios’ WGA Strike Endgame Is To Let Writers Go Broke Before Resuming Talks In Fall | Deadline

• Over 100 people trapped for several hours in mystery writer Agatha Christie's former home | CNN

• NFTs? FFS, WB: The Flash Movie Trainwreck Reaches A New Low | Kotaku

• Still love the design and world of DX:HR; glad to see it continuing to inspire others, too: Deus Ex: Human Revolution’s Eliza Cassan was a perfect nerdlesque muse | Polygon

• Beautiful: Artist Miya Ando Transforms New York’s Brookfield Place into a Botanical Wonderland Inspired by Japan’s 72 Micro-Seasons | artnet

EDGELANDS (Blessed are the Hearts that Bend, 2023)

A transportive melding of cello, textures, and ambient/field that’s been on constant rotation this week. Beautiful.

100% bought it for the cover (all hail the king)

three quick notes on SECRET INVASION 03 + 04

• While I loved the first 1/3, I can't, at this juncture, figure how they intend to wrap up this story in a satisfying fashion with two episodes to go. Perhaps the plan is to kill everyone on the show one by one and then, when everyone's dead, the show ends?

• Thusly, the final episode will be Gravik killing all of the Graviks until there's none left except for himself...

• But, in the post-credits sequence, Nick Fury emerges from the pile of Graviks, points his gun at final Gravik and says, "Now go the fuck to sleep." Smash cut to black.

backyard/20230713

reMarkable 2, ctd

A few more impressions as I cross the halfway point of my first week:

• 99.8% certain that it will fully replace my paper journal: briefly returned to paper and went back to the reMarkable. Love writing in / on it: feels like a Papermate Flair / fountain pen mix without the waste of blowing through a box of Flairs a month. Lamy stylus supposed to arrive today. Have a feeling that that will clinch its victory.

• Very nice to have gotten a handle on the touch gestures. Less friction = more brain.

• A workflow is emergent.

• Still haven't read anything on it. Or signed anything. Should have caught me a year ago, then it'd've been a different story.

• The focus that writing on it instills transfers well to working on the Mac.

• K was so fascinated by it that she bought her own for teaching. Have a feeling that it will be even more useful for her than for me (though it has already cemented its position as an essential brain extension in (what passes for) my creative practice).

• My handwriting is and will remain shit but I learned to live with that long ago. In other words, text-type conversion isn’t in the cards and won’t be and I’m fine with that: I’ve been deciphering my scribbles since time immemorial and it’s not like I’m a doctor or anything important.

good mail day