44. On interdependence
[Diners’ Club Western Section Credit Card, 1953, National Museum of American History, Gift of Bloomingdale, Alfred, 1953-04-30, Smithsonian Institution]It...
43. Back to the subject of museums
[Key for the Technological Industrial and Sanitary Museum, Garden Palace, maker unknown, Sydney, Australia, 1879-1882, Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences...
42. The paws - between fast and slow
[Paw and toe beans, claw in need of a trim]I’m spending a lot more time online now and I expect that if you still have a desk job then you probably are too....
41. The blurring
[A New York fortune cookie from when I lived there back in April 2013]Its a short one today, we’re all drowning in ‘content’.Back in the home office it was a...
40. Sounds, like stars in the darkness
[Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color, 2013, Jet Propulsion Lab, NASA, Public Domain]“No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are...
39. Closed/closed - the end of touch
[Sherman’s Influenza Bacterial Vaccine 38, ca 1937, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.]If the last one was...
38. Closed/open
Head of a Cat, ca. 1877-1880, Paul Wayland Bartlett, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Armistead Peter III, CC0 license.I’m finishing off this...
37. Super connectors and low frequencies
This week’s news of the sudden death of DJ and producer Andy Weatherall - at just 56 - was rather shocking. He was one of the real musical ‘super connectors’...
36. A ship heads into a bank of clouds
A shorter one this time.This week I was flying back from Sydney and opted, a little unusually, for a window seat. The torrential rain had abated briefly, and...
35. Holiday triptych - books, music, art
#1/This one starts out during a week away at the beach, and as a consequence, the opportunity to finish off a couple of books and attempt to make some crude...
34. Context collapse
Changi Airport now has Jewel - a high end bubble shopping mall with an enormous water feature that feels like something out of the old videogame Doom - a...
33. Farewell 2019, hello 2020
I tried to get this finished before the end of the decade, but life intervened. And, you’ve probably already heard that Australia is on fire (and is likely...
32. Art, AI, auteurs, access, annual audio
Matthäus Greuter, Kort over Rom med de syv pilgrimskirker, 1634-1638, Statens Museum Kunst, Denmark. Public domain.This last weekend, R and I were playing...
31. Heart beats
Above is a chart of my heart rate on my 9 hour flight from Melbourne to Hong Kong to the Hong Kong Museum Summit earlier this week. I dozed off after take...
30. “Calculating the ever changing distance between rock and stardom”
Mirror with game board design, China, Han Dynasty 206BC- AD220, Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain.The title today comes from Saul Williams’ poem...
29. Multi-sensorial memories & seamful-ness
[A whale stranded on the coast at Winterton; five men in the foreground, ship in the background. Engraving, ca. 1880. Credit: Wellcome Collection. CC BY]A...
28. C86, coziness, conceptronica
All new technologies will be used to ‘optimize’ - worker behavioural tracking via motion capture in 1915. From the Kheel Center for Labor-Management...
27. Experience malls & bonus beats
My hastily snapped, slightly wonky, pic of UNTITLED (HARING), 1997 as I walked past it.“In 1997, in a gesture of homage, KAWS painted on a poster of New York...
26. Story games and game stories
(A chance discovery of my old Dungeons & Dragons ephemera from a mid 1980s visit to the UK offices of TSR!)Last weekend I was in Mind Games, a very Melbourne...
25. Ghosts & the spectral
Hello new readers! (and old readers!)I’ve noticed another flood of new readers in the month between this episode and the last, so for those of you who are...