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Daily notes, when I remember.

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Morning Pages

Sound editing in Dune, Northumbrian cabins, Airstream trailer, Industrial ruins, ghost plane, weird worlds, flying cars, Agatha Christie

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A houseboat, some old hotels, magazines, Wes Anderson, UFO abductions

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Camille du Gast, Murals, American Movie Theaters, Raindrop, Marginalia search.

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Mem.ai, Ye-Ye culture, Korean sculpture, Virgina Sterrett.

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Inside musical instruments, polar bears.

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Anita Berber, Origami Knights, "Providence"

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Austin Kleon, Heat 2, audio updates

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Moon Knight, Joss Whedon, Crypto Bros "buy" Dune

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The Scarecrow - Jim McKenzie

A really great process-video.

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Cryptoland

As far as I can tell, someone is attempting to create actual Hell on Earth and then sell bits of it to overcompensating white men.

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Morning Pages

Things in jars, The Godfather in 4K, Keanu Reeves

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Morning Pages - A clear out...

Extreme buildings, Satanic panics, incredible watercolours, NFTs and modernist movie villain lairs...

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The Morning Pages

Some snippets that have bubbled to the surface of my news feeds this morning...

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Solarpunk

On the excellent Messy Nessy Chic [https://www.messynessychic.com] website (go there, you will not be disappointed), I found this great article [https://www.messynessychic.com/2021/06/10/inside-the-imaginarium-of-a-solarpunk-architect/] on the concept of "Solarpunk".

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School Report

I received an e-mail today, letting me know that my English teacher, Frank Craven, has died at the grand old age of 91. I didn't have any contact with him after I left school, which seems a terrible shame now. I loved his classes and would absolutely credit

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Listening to Books

This is a really great piece by Maggie Gram [https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/listening-to-books/], defending the use of audiobooks and exploring their history.

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Time Travel - solved!

This would seem to be a useful piece for anyone exploring time travel in any of their writing. If only they had cracked this before we had created an entire time travel podcast series, it would have saved a lot of headaches in the writers room. The Paradox of Time

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Americans In Paris

This American Life has released some episodes from its archives and made them available as podcasts. Americans In Paris apparently features David Sedaris. I have bookmarked and am excited to listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/americans-in-paris/id201671138?i=1000444994669

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Strange times...

In which I ponder what to do about my social media feeds...

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The Strange Tale of the Oldest Science Fiction Novel

The Strange Tale of the Oldest Science Fiction Novel | Mysterious UniverseA text from way back in the 2nd century has become regarded as perhaps the fist science fiction novel ever made.Mysterious UniverseBrent Swancer [https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2020/08/the-strange-tale-of-the-oldest-science-fiction-novel/]

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The Fayum Portraits

Funery painting of ancient Roman Egypt - a Met Museum film

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Time Lapse: The sun over ten years

This is mesmerising; NASA has made a high-res video of the sun, wherein each second represents one day.

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QAnon

A really fascinating long read from this month's Atlantic

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The Lovecraftian Bundle

Dark ambient music with a Lovecraft theme.

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This Is Not A Conspiracy Theory

Kirby Ferguson’s latest film is now available in its final cut.