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• A useful primer: GTD in 15 minutes – A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done

• "The ’Virtual Ink’ series is an homage to the ritual of traditional Chinese painting techniques re-imagined in the digital. From this foundation, the practice of mark-making becomes a wellspring of inspiration in developing artistic tools of tomorrow, in the creation of sculptural line-work that communicates the uncertainty, fluidity and temporality of form." | Sougwen Chung

• Dystopian ‘Collaged’ Figurines by Hiroki Tsukuda Depict The Darkest Hour | Spoon & Tamago

• "The fleshy tones and poses are so nearly real —yet so obviously not—that it’s difficult to accept the images have been developed without direct human input. But perhaps most astonishing are the interview answers above; the AI machine interviews itself, revealing among other truths that it would like Gun and Roses played at its funeral...": The debut issue of PLAYBOT, a porn mag created by AI for AI. | magculture

• Newly identified waterlily species is world’s largest | The Guardian

• Not a huge fan of the "intense focus Hemingwriter"-type thing, but I'm sort of in love with the Flowo | Yanko Design

• A Ramen Shop in Japan Inspired by Old, Pixelated Video Games | Design Milk

• Peter Fabris’ Illustrations for William Hamilton’s Campi Phlegraei (1776–79) | Public Domain Review

from the writing to the written

In the final throes of revisions, ever the open wound, for the first zine, reading the thing over and again and making changes tiny and large that make it so, with each return to the top readthrough, I make fewer and fewer adjustments until finally, it feels like I am no longer writing it but have written it in the past and it feels done.

Recognition that my process is infused – as best I can – with this diamond from George Saunders:

How, then, to proceed? My method is: I imagine a meter mounted in my forehead, with “P” on this side (“Positive”) and “N” on this side (“Negative”). I try to read what I’ve written uninflectedly, the way a first-time reader might (“without hope and without despair”). Where’s the needle? Accept the result without whining. Then edit, so as to move the needle into the “P” zone. Enact a repetitive, obsessive, iterative application of preference: watch the needle, adjust the prose, watch the needle, adjust the prose (rinse, lather, repeat), through (sometimes) hundreds of drafts. Like a cruise ship slowly turning, the story will start to alter course via those thousands of incremental adjustments.

George Saunders https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/04/what-writers-really-do-when-they-write

And so I revise on, from the writing to the written.

PARKER - THE MARTINI EDITION: collection complete

Quick skim of the latest, THE LAST CALL, and it's just as stunning as the first volume. Bittersweet knowing that this is the end of Darwyn’s work but oh, what work - what a legacy - he’s given us.

good mail day (Zola Jesus edition)

ARKHHON has arrived: a brilliant record that pushes everything I love about Nika’s music into new directions, a document of an artist constantly and fearlessly evolving. Spectacular.

Boston rooftops, 1906 | via