Justin Peck

MyRetroTVs Tune in to the lost decades with these nostalgic TV simulators.

Channel surf on virtual vintage TV sets www.myretrotvs.com

Missions | Sculptor Bodoc Portfolio Bodoc Cosmic Missions

Bodoc’s incredible cardboard sculptures bodoc.space/missions

Christopher Herwig Motors Through Southeast Asia to Capture a Vivid Fleet of 'Trucks and Tuks' Christopher Herwig journeys 10,000 kilometers and 208 pages, capturing the wondrous, idiosyncratic art form.

Christopher Herwig Motors Through Southeast Asia to Capture a Vivid Fleet of ‘Trucks and Tuks’ www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/08/chri...

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

Tired of buying shoes from drunkards?

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APT

Voting

Northern Waters

Just A Peck 0006 // APT, Bacon Bonanza, Anniversary: https://justapeck.net/2025/08/17/just-a-peck-apt-bacon.html

This week's newsletter wherein I briefly mention American Players Theatre, the Bacon Bonanza, Astronomy Photographers, our anniversary, the dump, and other things I'm excited about.

Any chance you could be tempted to open the auction up to US residents?

The Shelves of Time Revisiting a revisitation of the past

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a hand holding a satirical package of bird models with the words "DEAD BIRDS they are all died!" at the top

They were probably hit by a truck or something

www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/02/obvi...

The Colors of the World, Seen From the International Space Station Auroras, moonsets, the Milky Way, and more in recent photographs from ISS crew members in orbit. Take a look at @TheAtlPhoto:

The Colors of the World, Seen From the International Space Station. “Recent photographs from crew members aboard the ISS show some spectacular views of auroras, moonsets, the Milky Way, and more, seen from from their vantage point in orbit.” [theatlantic.com]

The Rock Art of Serrania De La Lindosa - Earth As We Know It Within Southeast Colombia's Orinoco River basin, a series of massive rocky sandstone mesas, called tepuis, rise up from the dense humid jungle. Since ancient times the cliffs of these mountains were i...

The Rock Art of Serrania De La Lindosa
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The Bluesky Dictionary Can Bluesky say every word in the English language? Well this is your chance to find out.

It's wild that I might be the first person to ever post the words leechlike, imprecisions, bodhrans, discology, fingerbowls, and acidly on Bluesky. www.avibagla.com/blueskydicti...

Vote on the 2025 Tiny Awards Finalists - Waxy.org The finalists for the 2025 Tiny Awards are out, which I helped judge again this year. Here's a little roundup of the 11 contenders. Voting ends September 1!

The finalists for the 2025 Tiny Awards are out, which I helped judge again this year. Here's a little roundup of the 11 contenders. Voting ends September 1! https://waxy.org/2025/08/vote-on-the-2025-tiny-awards-finalists

Interesting Bars: Discover Unique Cocktail Bars & Speakeasies Find the best interesting bars, speakeasies, and unique cocktail lounges near you. We help you discover hidden gems and must-visit spots for an unforgettable night out.

Find unique bars and lounges in major cities.
www.interestingbars.com?ref=DenseDis...

Some of this was on my mind because over the weekend I wrote a rant/pep talk about making art in the age of human and AI slop. (Which is an age maybe not so different from any other...) countercraft.substack.com/p/why-you-sh...

This see-thru Game Boy is a work of art — because she designed a transparent circuit board Those copper traces are a thing of beauty.

Just floored by @nataliethenerd.com's work here. Zoom in and see the copper traces!

Ashley Willis Make Something Just for You This post started as an answer to a question I asked in Slack: What else should I write about? A few people wanted to know how I fin...

New Blog: Effortful Leisure, or: Why I Keep Making Things

aka: how I keep from burning out by 3D printing toys and refusing to monetize my joy.
ashley.dev/posts/effort...

Happy 30th to the first Ben Folds Five album. Wrote you some thoughts on it from tour bus, as i listened to it all the wau theoigh for first time in 3 decades www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

THE MOUNTAIN IN THE SEA THE MOUNTAIN IN THE SEA LOCUS AWARD WINNER  ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD, NEBULA AWARD, LA TIMES BOOK AWARDS' RAY BRADBURY PRIZE FINALIST  LONDON TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR NAMED ONE OF THE BEST SCIENCE...

I just finished The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler, and it's exceptional. A propulsive, intelligent, hopeful, *beautiful* novel of ideas (AI, sentience, semiotics, conservation) with cyberpunk influences.

Ordering his other two books immediately.

www.raynayler.net/the-mountain...

The Bluesky Dictionary Can Bluesky say every word in the English language? Well this is your chance to find out.

No one on Bluesky has made a post using the words hippest, craftsmanlike, deftest, fifthly, fingerer, fieldstone, launderettes, bloodmobiles, deterrable, malodorousness, or impassivity?

www.avibagla.com/blueskydicti...

Well, they have now!

[first date]

Him: So what do you do?

Her: I’m an oncologist.

Him: So you’re always on call?

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Cats Young Actors Edition

Biggest Fake in the Universe

LOON Summer Sparkler

Just A Peck 0004 // Cats, Pizza, Tom Lehrer: https://justapeck.net/2025/08/03/just-a-peck-cats-pizza.html

The fourth issue of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I talk about upcoming shows, board games, and cassette tapes.

The dance of death scene from Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957)

The dance of death scene from Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957) pasted into the rolling hillside wallpaper from Windows 95 with the caption: “The Seventh Seal” at The Sphere (2025)

Which course is this?

Being a silent-movie extra could be dangerous

I've purchased quite a few books that I heard about on bsky.

Duluth, MN lift bridge

I loved seeing the "path maps" too. Some of them (Journey Under the Sea, Balloon to the Sahara) were surprisingly complex!

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Just A Peck 0003 // Rent, SubSuperior, Heat Pumps: https://justapeck.net/2025/07/27/just-a-peck-rent-subsuperior.html

The third issue of the Just A Peck Newsletter wherein I talk about upcoming shows, HVAC repairs, and Walter Murch.

Elmore Leonard’s Perfect Pitch How the author of “Rum Punch” and “Out of Sight” came into his style.

Great crime novelist Donald Westlake to even greater crime novelist Elmore (Dutch) Leonard, on the many bad Hollywood versions of Leonard's work: “Dutch, why do you keep hoping to make a good movie? The books are ours; everything else is virgins thrown in the volcano.”