A bunch of miscellaneous stuff, in no particular order …
- Two books on deep history that I added to my far-in-the-future reading list: “On Deep History and the Brain” by Daniel Lord Smail, and “Deep History: The Architecture of Past and Present” by Andrew Shryock and Daniel Lord Smail
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A bit of wasted time on Youtube followed the discovery of gameplay videos for “Urban Assault”, the one game I ****ing loved when I was younger (as with all nostalgia, I obviously think it was underrated).
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Someone else pointed out that “Dead Poets Society” was an overhyped movie, and in fact a bit ridiculous.
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A playlist of H. R. Giger Art if you’re into surrealism at all
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More wasted time on Youtube, this time on revisiting an old album by “Enigma” (remember?!) — and then it was depressing to find out exactly how old: twenty years
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Someone in Japan got up close and personal with a Giant Squid. Skip the article, watch the short video clip in the beginning.
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Finally, here is something that blew me away. It’s not science fiction, this isn’t CGI rendering for some upcoming movie, this is real. This WIRED article catalogues some “retro-futuristic” architecture (public housing, by the way) built half a century ago. Separately (I’m not making this up) I came to know that one of these sites, the one whose image is at the top of the post, was a filming location for “Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2”.
(for some reason, I had saved this draft 20 days ago, but neglected to actually hit “publish”)
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