Excerpt from a longer (podcast) conversation with John Waters about how he used to work at Mary Oliver’s bookstore in Provincetown. “They had this bookshop where you were allowed to be mean to the customers. It was really fun.”
Longreads
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"Thanks to an assist from his sons, Mike D is set to release “Thank You,” the first new music from a member of the pioneering rap trio in 15 years."
Keep zooming. Keep zooming.
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay is making a documentary about the 14th amendment, “spotlighting America’s long running and sometimes bloody battle with itself over who is a citizen and how much freedom they get”.
On Japan’s visible evidence of care. “American service providers, private and public, increasingly run like ghost ships. Japanese technology and design seemed in greater service to humans, their journeys, and enterprises.”
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
"Erik Giggleman was an elite Army soldier who went in search of a righteous struggle and found it in Ukraine. As his commitment deepened, his father confronted an excruciating truth: Either the conflict would end, or Erik would die fighting."
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
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• Kate Mothes
The group exhibition at Gallery Wendi Norris plumbs the dialogue between absence and present.
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Work Chronicles
• Work Chronicles
I love the 1-bit aesthetic of this story-driven city builder game called GlagStone.
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• Kate Mothes
John D. Boswell, a musician and filmmaker who works as MELODYSHEEP, created the film from videos and images published by NASA.
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From BBC Earth, the trailer for Evolution, a five-part series premiering on PBS in October. “Ponder this: All the incredible diversity of animal life on Earth sprang from a single organism. Every animal, no matter how weird, is related to every other.”
