Work a year remotely in Italy? That sounds lovely! / via Bernie Michalik

It's pricey ($60), but just the fact that it's possible to get a good 3D scan from a phone and get an action figure made is really neato. It'll get cheaper.

Looking into space for a moment. More insights at Colossal

A touching thread and moving last words / via SwissMiss

Text to speech with a AI voice generator. (The pro versions sound particularly good.) / via John Maeda

Hand painted posters. Serving Queens, NY & beyond for 50 years. Their Instagram is a good start but follow it up with this profile in the New Yorker. / thanks Thor!

I thought it was just the algorithm taunting me, but I guess these first hand videos by Stephen Patula are getting around. I find these mesmerizing. Also, living wages should be the thing.

A bit more of Ardhira Putra's illustration paired with some smooth sounds to close out the week.

It’s Nice That profiles this Jakarta-based illustrator and motion designer and I’m super digging the vibes.

Composed by Katerina Gimon. Performed by the 2022 TMEA Texas All-State Treble Choir under the direction of Dr Lynda Hasseler. This is powerful. / thanks Henry

It's fun even if you don't speak Portuguese (microphone access is optional) / via Under Consideration’s review

Used to follow his former blog and delighted to find he activity maintains an expansive personal site. Every section is filled with near endless awesomeness.

Lovely letterpress print by Cameron Moll coming soon. Pre-orders of the limited edition open now.

Mellow, quiet, yearning duet by John Mark Nelson and Sofia Mills (Thanks TikTok)

It's very simple on iOS to bypass biometric authentication and require the passcode.

A free to use, edit, extend crowdfunding tool for Shopify with multiple goals and variants as campaign tiers by Craig Mod. (Excellent video tutorial to boot!) / via Kevin Kelley's post about The Proprietary Path

Mariame Kaba reminds us that “hope is a discipline.” It is also a political strategy and a survival mechanism.

“These actions are small, she said, like writing new songs to process old wounds. But maybe they prove more meaningful than submitting to darkness.” Listening now. Thanks Zan

Andy Moliski is hiking the Appalachian Trail. With the help of his two brothers he's sharing the journey in real time through an amazing website that defies category. Be sure to check out the journal. / via Things to Click

"Reviews of products that mostly do not exist..." as Kevin Fanning puts it, "This is so dumb, But maybe it’s not totally dumb?" (but it's also about just writing, you know, for fun.)

CW&T's favorite things based on guiding principles of simplicity, timelessness and long lasting design. / via belong

Explained in 6 minutes by Debbie Millman. Many favorite moments, including this beautiful stretch: "Branding has become a profound manifestation of the human spirit."

Immediately smitten with Brooke's calm and warped perspective / thanks SwissMiss

I saw the photos in this tweet and promptly started researching this panoramic Swiss rail line that goes up into the alps and back down into Italy.

Explore the map, pick a place and listen to natural soundscapes, learn about the habitat and related charities. / via Dense Discovery

This journey map captures a year of highs and lows in 2020, part of a workshop with Eugene Eric Kim.

Hypnotic browser/mobile puzzle game using satellite images and a soundtrack from Space Shuttle recordings / by Nadya Suvorova

Bonobo close their 5 night residency at the Royal Albert Hall with Anna Lapwood on pipe organ. Her expression of joy is beyond doubt. I can only image how those 9,999 pipes sound irl.

Agreeing 100% with Greg Storey that I'm here for Lego revisiting classic themes. Related: The upcoming Lion Knight Castle.

Radically optimize image file sizes with this Mac app or web service. I've used this before but it wasn't until I asked Naz how he got his photographs so wonderfully compressed that it all clicked. Now a tool in my everyday workflow.

A gallery of card designs created with the HTML Canvas element and JavaScript with editable code to tweak and generate new variants. Created by Luke Patton

A James Turrell installation in Colorado that you have to hike to. #bucketlist / via Michael Sippey

Actually this list isn't about photography, it's about seeing and being / thanks Sean

They're brighter than you think (yellow?! orange!). I chuckled at the new to me term "The German Rainbow"

The base type for Apple OS gets more expressive style widths with a great overview of how and why to use each. / via Merlin who says "This man has amazing hair"

MetroCard top off / existential crisis

Write music.

Nathan Friend brought Spirograph to the browser (and an app). / via Sidebar

Back-office for a Business-of-One, including company formation, tax, accounting and bookkeeping services. Not available in Ohio yet, but this looks v promising. / via Erik

A variable font built around an axis of photographic exposure / thanks K!

Teenage Engineering created a pocket operator app to sequence sound and video (for Google Pixel phones). No real idea what this does, but I love their approach to interface design.

App that blends an image on your phone with video of your pencil / paintbrush to draw. Once set, you can even zoom around. Fascinating. Da Vinci Eye has another app for murals too.

Two examples show another approach of how tools like Dall•E can generate imagery

Always looking for new music and super enjoying the singles and playlists of New Commute thanks to posts by Wolf Bomb

vs. what pride actually is. An expanded notion by Jess Bird

Janelle Shane's AI Weirdness blog is great. This particular post makes me wondering about job security.

Held in New York City, New York, on June 28, 1970, to commemorate the first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. / via Nayland Blake

Closed out a day of computers & zooms & needed to do something & didn't want to think about it. This 5 minute type drawing exercise from Draplin hit the spot. (The thing I made isn't very good.)

Automatically scours major streaming platforms to share links for songs, albums and podcasts. I no longer have to link to YouTube videos! (I do fear if the service will exist much longer after a Linktree acquisition...) / via Andy Bell

The list of ”10 things I wish every design student knew“ by Cameron Moll holds up incredibly well over time, but also? Works for every profession.

This entire article can be summed up by the title. Don't get me wrong, as soon as fully autonomous vehicles are a real thing? Screens everywhere!

A poem by Amanda Gorman with illustration by Angie Wang

Everytown advocates for gun safety measures in state legislatures across the US, providing a breakdown of laws by state alongside a list of solutions. It's hard to think of anything else.

I'd love to visit the Praise Show Art Gallery in Brookline to see Oliver Jeffers latest paintings and get lost in the stars

A hardcover edition of Thoreau’s book, annotated, designed and illustrated.

Florida high school class president Zander Moricz was told by his school that they would cut his microphone if he said “gay” in his grad speech, so he replaced gay with “having curly hair.” 👏👏👏

Between 1939 and 1941, the Works Progress Administration collected photographs of most buildings in the five boroughs of New York City. Here they are digitized and tagged by Julian Boilen. / via Yewknee

It's like Zoom, but funner apparently, breaking out of boxes and adding filters, music, and games.

I've seen this before but saving in hopes I remember this phenomenon. Gaps in the treetops curb the spread of insects, parasitic vines, or infectious disease and improve access to light. (Postnote: Likely saw this on Kottke years ago)

And which trails to ride in Copenhagen, Bogotá, New York City, Paris, Washington, D.C., Geneva, San Francisco / via Belong