Pasolini sits in a chair in his study. A wall of bookshelves, with books piled on his deak.
Pier Paolo Pasolini by Marisa Rastellini, Rome, 1962
"But what have you discovered about film in an aesthetic sense?"
"Well, to tell the truth, the only thing I discovered is the pleasure of discovery."
Close up photo of RBS class teacher Brian Cassidy demonstrating pulling a master (like carbon paper, uses writing pressure to transfer ink to paper) that's been pressed against a hectographic-recipe gelatin, leaving ink in the shape of the drawing on the gelatin. It looks like someone pulling a sheet of paper off a pan of purple jello, with the same drawing on both the gelatin and the sheet being pulled off it.
Close up photo of a tray of hectographic-recipe purple gelatin with ink on its surface matching the duplicated ink on a white piece of paper sitting next to it.
Did hectography (aka jellygraph; a way of making duplicates of writing/art) in my RBS class w/for a collaborative class zine. Ingredients=kitchen/pharmacy stuff you'd have on hand for many reasons (eg gelatin) & can go down sink drain, so users included folks fearing gov searches. #DHmakes
Via @gruber.foo - AI 10-year time travel with the billionaires
www.aicandy.be/giorgio-1
Who knew? About the sopranissimo, and that Scalzi played the uke?
“You understand your place in the universe very quickly when you look at something 1 billion light-years away … and realise that those photons, they predate dinosaurs, they predate humans, they predate the continents,”
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
another cool find:
Archaeologists have discovered a 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb in southern Mexico, adorned with complex carvings, which has been called “the most significant archaeological discovery of the last decade”
Hundreds of thousands of Zapotec speakers still live in Mexico to this day
This is a significant slice of American history that transcends but adds to that of animation & Disney. ‘the camps…’ explained, too
Fake Xerox and real piano wire. Gorillaz’s new video for ‘The Mountain’ rebuilds a 1950s animation pipeline using painted backgrounds, optical tricks, and strict self-imposed limits. www.cartoonbrew.com/music-videos...
In 1987, as a WNET-13 editor, I traveled to LA for the PBS taping of Mancini and Friends, with Mancini conducting. Plas must have been one of those Friends. A great night for fans of Mancini, and for a young editor only 6 years into a TV career.
Looking great, watching for it to be released (or a beta?). Count me in.
When you have the chance, please take the time to watch Harrison Ford's remarkable, beautiful Life Achievement Award acceptance speech. #ActorAwards
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV_2...
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
Source?
Claudenitive dissonance.
THROUGH DARKEST EUROPE is an alt hist set about now in a universe where Islam developed science, technology, and representative government while Western Europe got stuck in, well, piety. It's also a sort of meditation on terrorism.
www.amazon.com/Through-Dark...
As straight and twisted as it gets. The bite that blew up the world.
Jack Shanahan, retired US Air Force General and first Director of the Department of Defense Joint Artificial Intelligence Center:
Today would have been George Harrison’s 83rd birthday.
youtu.be/HsffxGyY4ck?...
Google translate of “I went outside to listen to the monkeys and I got locked outside - room sixty six”
What I told the night clerk in Palenque
Same. @christopherbrown.bsky.social saw this coming.
snowdecahedron
Radigue adjusts her electronic gear as she composes
# RIP Éliane Radigue
📷 Yves Arman
“Time, silence and space are the main factors constituting my music. Shivering space, like a soft breath, induces the vibrations of the silence slightly, becoming sound.”
Adnos I:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCHL...
Now available at bookstores and online.
"The best spy novel set in the Adirondacks since Ian Fleming booked James bond a room at a Lake George cabin colony." Anthony Hall, Lake George Mirror.
"I loved it. Abbey meets Vonnegut." Bill McKibben
Pleiades: The Seven Sisters Star Cluster apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26022...
A long exposure from a dark location reveals the dust cloud surrounding the Pleiades star cluster. The featured 18-hour exposure, taken from Bory Tucholskie, Poland covers a sky area several times the size of the full moon.
Related - my sister-in-law worked for AARP magazine. Sued them for age discrimination and won.
Another summer will come…
One of the greatest modal folk funk songs ever written
If this one doesn’t move you, nothing will!
youtu.be/q12AKu-Ndb4?...
we literally had bodies stacked in refrigerator trucks, the sound of sirens tore through streets day and night, but sure, you do you
Full illustration shows evolution to today’s helmeted guinea fowl.
