Your child is making sand castles (unreconciled nostalgia for the feudal project). My child is sketching Marx's face in the sand. We are not the same.

Incredible. Wasn't the Green only refurbed a couple years ago?

The SS United States in axonometric projection in the Hermann Bollmann map of New York City, 1963

Deranged

They've made it almost shrine-like

Can I get a subsequent prayer emoji

Checkmate, globeheads

Agree, no slow down in accretion of data. Just 0s, not Nulls.

But the speed at which we now demand digital maps, especially in journalism, means that cloud obscuration is back - there's no time to wait for a clear day. Just today, in a map representing the damage from the LA fires, the NY Times has placed a label not unlike the ones at the top of this thread.

Today, clouds have almost disappeared from the stable, seamless 'mosaics' that are the background layers for platforms like Google Maps. This is a function of blending thousands of images together. But there were moments, especially in earlier versions, when clouds appeared out of place.

But the throughline seems to be the industrialisation of content that no-one actually pays attention to - at the expense of everything else

You've never needed a last minute pneumatic log splitter?

Featuring Miquette Giraudy of Gong, the film was scored by Pink Floyd, who then released the accompanying album 'Obscured by clouds'. The album makes use of the EMS VCS 3 synthesiser, which really sets the scene for misplaced spiritual voyages.

Schroeder skewers his colonials, who trick themselves with a kind of hippie truth-seeking until it is too late. But this critique is not really extended to the film itself, which repeatedly dislocates Indigenous people and their language in the service of spectacle.

Shame about the permanent mourning veil on the tower though

Can't DM you directly! Might need to change a setting