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...
Superman: The Mechanical Monsters (1941) Deluxe Box Set – Mezco
The Fleischer cartoons have long been my favorite incarnation of Superman so when I heard that Mezco was making a box set of one of the best episodes, I leapt onto their waiting list as quickly as I could. It finally arrived today - and it was so very, very worth the wait:
Quick note: this is my first Mezco set – it will not be my last. You can procure yours here.
“His last mask”: Lon Chaney cartoon obit, 27 August 1930 | via
five quick notes on PICARD 3.6
Best episode of the season and of the series. I repeat: why did it wait this long to get this good?
Felt, appropriately, like the start of a goodbye to an era – but also a hello towards a new one.
(Reiterating my desire for a series featuring the crew of the Titan and Jack Crusher.)
Are you going to make it out of this one alive, Will?
Way to call back to the start of the series; that's a hell of a McGuffin.
