Theo Honohan

The march of pejoration means that I'm supposed to say "systemically excluded" because the word "disadvantaged" has been around for so long

Would this be tastier with red cables

added modulation. clearly the first parameter to try is sample loop end point, ofc

I've never been in an New York seminar where racially diverse participants considered the question "Does Abstraction Belong to White People?" but quite frankly, what seems a lot more likely is that disadvantaged people have less access to a lot of worthwhile and interesting cultural manifestations.

"There's some interesting writing here but this book really reminded me of how myopic, white and self serving the New York art world is."

I only experienced US culture in person as a tween. The racial politics situation seems pretty bad.

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Love Hultén's "pink lab"

It's probably obvious, but synths built by slightly eccentric artists look a lot more interesting than synths built by engineers with an interest in audio or music. The basic aesthetic rules are the same, there's just more visual fun www.lovehulten.com/pinklab.html

Plan of the Giardini (a bit out of date)

"Amid the orderly grid of the Giardini della Biennale" www.archdaily.com/1035655/re-s...

What grid?

We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.

Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.

Then they came for the Dreamers Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.

Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago spent nearly two months in ICE detention—despite having protection under DACA—until a federal judge ruled that the government had no reason to keep her in custody and ordered her release.

DHS is still vowing to "explore every available option to remove" her. My latest:

View across a camel market in an open landscape.

Marc Riboud
Camel Market (Nagaur, Rajasthan, India), 1956
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Another advertisement from the same web page.

Black-and-white magazine advertisement: "MAY WE TELL YOU ABOUT QUESTAR? This beautiful instrument is the result of thirteen years of singleminded devotion to the idea of creating the finest and most versatile small telescope in the world." etc

May we tell you about Questar? gregorygross.com/blog/entry.p...

The inventor attempts to explain the device (in an imaginary dialogue with a plain person) at the end of this article, possibly endearingly
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*gear train

"I like working in an industrial research lab, because of the input," he says. "[French film director] Jean Renoir wrote in his autobiography that when someone asked his father, [Impressionist painter] Pierre-Auguste, why he painted from life, taking his easel outdoors rather than painting in a studio, he said: 'If I were to paint a tree in the studio, I would be able to paint five or six different kinds of leaves. That's all that would come to me. But when I go out in nature, there are millions of different kinds of leaves. I need nature for that inspiration. "It's the same with me. If I just work by myself and come up with problems, I'd come up with some small number of things, but if I go out into the world, where people are working on real computer systems, there are a million problems out there. When I look back on most of the things I worked on – Byzantine Generals, Paxos – they came from real-world problems."

Leslie Lamport on inspiration from the diversity of "nature" www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

This video makes a simple mechanism (a rack-and-pinion driving a flywheel through a gear chain) sound very fancy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhmL...

Bernd and Hilla Becher I’ve seen Bernd and Hilla Becher’s black-and-white photographs of industrial structures innumerable times, but never quite like this: picture after picture, nearly 650 in all, showing buildings––water...

"On the other hand, most ... are so utterly boring that the comparisons between individuals seem totally pointless. Here, seriality is the redeeming quality. The single object is depressing, but I can enjoy the repetitive quality of the group." I don't think the critic realises how damning that is.

YouTube video by The Met Bernd & Hilla Becher Virtual Opening | Met Exhibitions

That 2008 WSJ article tries to draw attention to the less blatant (gridded, graphic) and more documentary aspects. Then there's the recent exhibition in New York which definitely has a posthumous vibe to it. For work that was never very dynamic, where does this lead? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibBZ...

It's a wonderful record, but I fear that the aesthetic aspects of how they presented it (particularly the typological grids) aren't going to age well. In particular, the idea that there is a serial aspect to the enjoyment of their work seems a bit shallow.
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Black-and-white view of a 1960s landscape model of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power station. Two sets of elevator doors are seen in the background.

"Oh Diablo Canyon 2, why can't you be more like Diablo Canyon 1?" www.larrysultan.com/gallery/evid...

Unlocking Béziers: Discovering Les 9 Écluses de Fonseranes 2025 Les 9 Écluses de Fonseranes is an unmissable landmark on the Canal du Midi near Beziers. A place to relax and enjoy the outdoors all year.

"Unlocking Béziers" sounds like an operation in a vector editor like Illustrator.
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Aerial photo of Niederfinow

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Aerial photo of Henrichenberg

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Map of Henrichenberg

Aerial photo of Niederfinow

The Germans have some interesting complexes (I think it's the only word that's grand enough) where one or more old lifts have been preserved alongside a new one. Henrichenberg (which I've been to) and Niederfinow.

Often a dismantled inclined plane seems to leave few traces.

Another fibreglass part mould of a large statue, this one standing up.

Mariana Castillo Deball
Between you and the image of you that reaches me, 2010
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Photo of large fibreglass mold from an original statue of Cuatlicue. It's in sections and it's lying on its back.

Mariana Castillo Deball
No Solid Form Can Contain You, 2010

Center of the Universe by Bruce Nauman 02 Center of the Universe, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque New Mexico by Bruce Nauman

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Black-and-white image of three men holding the ropes of an inflated round parachute. Margaret Bourke-White, Untitled #15 (Twenty Parachutes), 1937

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Black-and-white photograph of a round parachute attached to a pole. "From 1975-1977, Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel selected photographs from a multitude of images that previously existed solely within the boundaries of the industrial, scientific, governmental and other institutional sources from which they were mined. The project, “Evidence”, was funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and was one of the first conceptual photographic works of the 1970′s to demonstrate that the meaning of a photograph is conditioned by the context and sequence in which it is seen."

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