Current read; my complete list, from 2013 to the present, lives here.

wedded obsessions

Big thanks to Howie Noel - be sure to check out his shop! - for this awesome Gould-meets-Beatty print. Not only is it a beautiful piece of work, but it’s what the breakfast nook wall needed to bring my Dick Tracy obsession and my wife’s Grogu obsession together. Who needs rings when you’ve got Grogu and Dick Tracy together on one wall?

WEREWOLF OF LONDON (1935), Japanese promo poster | via

Advert for THE SHADOW radio show and newspaper strip, circa 1940-42 | via

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• Very cool; if they follow the pace and restraint of the original (and utterly brilliant) film, this should make a fantastic series: Eddie Redmayne To Lead ‘The Day Of The Jackal’ Series For Peacock & Sky | Deadline

• Beethoven’s DNA decoded from locks of hair saved by his fans | WaPo

• Off to a good start: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’ | The Guardian

• Recently picked up an issue of the original at an antique mall. Count me in on this: Gold Key Comics is back with Boris Karloff’s Gold Key Mysteries | The Beat

• "This deck was drawn by artist, designer and architect Boris Kobe (1905--1981) in 1945 while at the Allach concentration lager, a sub-camp of Dachau in a suburb of Munich... After surviving the Holocaust, he continued his architectural career and created no other known artistic works related to his time in the camps." The Daily Heller: Cards From Hell | PRINT Magazine

• Mesmerized: Meticulous Flat Lays of Vintage Toys and Miniatures Celebrate the History of Play and Design | Colossal

• This needs to be canon: Horrific Mario Manga Shows 1-UP Mushroom Growing Out Of Plumber | Kotaku

• And a hearty 🖕 to you too, Funko: Funko Lays Off Most of Mondo Staff, Poster Business in Limbo | The Wrap

Love this Better Little Book SHADOW cover.

vertically infinite / infinitely vertical

Mightve stumbled / bumbled into my preferred method of working with Obsidian's Canvas feature: a main document in the middle and extended into one continuous scroll (infinite whiteboard space FTW) with little notes and extra scenes and variations and phrasings and notions and ideas etc etc etc added as cards throughout and along its length. While my initial method was to treat the canvas as a digital corkboard/chaosboard of index cards in widescreen, I found it to be too fragmented – even for someone who enjoys working with fragments – and unnecessarily busy for me to yield a satisfactory synthesis. Infinite vertical scroll + widescreen works as effective utilization of both scroll and widescreen, I think...