-
Art of/from/in the brain. Self Reflected was “made using an elaborate combination of hand drawing, deep neuroscience research, algorithmically simulated neural circuitry, adapted brain scan data, photolithography, gilding, and strategic lighting” → Self Reflected gallery. See also: the Guided Tour and Closer Look videos.
-
From Polari to Pig Latin…and eight points in between. → Top 10 Secret Languages. And while I’m in the mood for lists, how about 10 Indispensable Scottish Words?
-
A breathless headline but an eye-opening link. → After You’ve Seen These Maps, Your Image of the World Will Never Be the Same Again!
-
An amazing story of collaborative art from, of all places, Reddit. → Place
-
Merde! → Bad language: why being bilingual makes swearing easier
-
Mastodon, an open-source Twitter-like system, is mildly interesting on its own. But using it as a platform for Oulipo-inspired experimentation, like oulipo.social in which “No one is allowed to use the letter ‘e,’ or ‘any variant of it, that is found in Latin script,” is fun and fascinating.
-
Incidentally, Mouse Reeve, the creator of oulipo.social, also collaborated on Drift, an amazing experimental typography book (and site) that featured randomly generated typographical compositions.
-
An hors d’oeuvre, a lagniappe… → xkcd: Mispronunciation
-
The geometric paper animals by Guardabosques! are awesome. I particularly like the Japanese Macaques and the various birds
-
Today in 1962, singer, songwriter, painter and future Nobel Prize in Literature winner Robert Allen Zimmerman—better known as Bob Dylan – Wikipedia—debuts his song “Blowin’ in the Wind” at Gerde’s Folk City in New York. Based on the Negro spiritual “No More Auction Block” (a staple in Dylan’s live performances at the time; listen to Odetta’s performance), Dylan’s iconic song, like many of his best songs, became famous as performed by others….in this case Peter, Paul and Mary‘s version that hit #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. A few other interesting covers: The Killers, Regina Spektor, Sam Cooke and Johnny Cash.