Theo Honohan
@theohonohan.bsky.social
"The subtlest and most pervasive of all influences are those which create and maintain the repertory of stereotypes."
It's probably obvious, but synths built by slightly eccentric artists look a lot more interesting than synths built by engineers with an interest in audio or music. The basic aesthetic rules are the same, there's just more visual fun www.lovehulten.com/pinklab.html
November 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
It's probably obvious, but synths built by slightly eccentric artists look a lot more interesting than synths built by engineers with an interest in audio or music. The basic aesthetic rules are the same, there's just more visual fun www.lovehulten.com/pinklab.html
November 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
November 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
May we tell you about Questar? gregorygross.com/blog/entry.p...
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
May we tell you about Questar? gregorygross.com/blog/entry.p...
Leslie Lamport on inspiration from the diversity of "nature" www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
!["I like working in an industrial research lab, because of the input," he says. "[French film director] Jean Renoir wrote in his autobiography that when someone asked his father, [Impressionist painter] Pierre-Auguste, why he painted from life, taking his easel outdoors rather than painting in a studio, he said: 'If I were to paint a tree in the studio, I would be able to paint five or six different kinds of leaves. That's all that would come to me. But when I go out in nature, there are millions of different kinds of leaves. I need nature for that inspiration.
"It's the same with me. If I just work by myself and come up with problems, I'd come up with some small number of things, but if I go out into the world, where people are working on real computer systems, there are a million problems out there. When I look back on most of the things I worked on – Byzantine Generals, Paxos – they came from real-world problems."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/bafkreidosmvqbjwecpcz6ncxc3ee7g5hjro3w5qkclaszdciqk3ig5nw6a@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Leslie Lamport on inspiration from the diversity of "nature" www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
"Oh Diablo Canyon 2, why can't you be more like Diablo Canyon 1?" www.larrysultan.com/gallery/evid...
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
"Oh Diablo Canyon 2, why can't you be more like Diablo Canyon 1?" www.larrysultan.com/gallery/evid...
November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The Germans have some interesting complexes (I think it's the only word that's grand enough) where one or more old lifts have been preserved alongside a new one. Henrichenberg (which I've been to) and Niederfinow.
Often a dismantled inclined plane seems to leave few traces.
Often a dismantled inclined plane seems to leave few traces.
November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The Germans have some interesting complexes (I think it's the only word that's grand enough) where one or more old lifts have been preserved alongside a new one. Henrichenberg (which I've been to) and Niederfinow.
Often a dismantled inclined plane seems to leave few traces.
Often a dismantled inclined plane seems to leave few traces.
Mariana Castillo Deball
Between you and the image of you that reaches me, 2010
castillodeball.org/project/betw...
Between you and the image of you that reaches me, 2010
castillodeball.org/project/betw...
November 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Mariana Castillo Deball
Between you and the image of you that reaches me, 2010
castillodeball.org/project/betw...
Between you and the image of you that reaches me, 2010
castillodeball.org/project/betw...
Mariana Castillo Deball
No Solid Form Can Contain You, 2010
No Solid Form Can Contain You, 2010
November 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Mariana Castillo Deball
No Solid Form Can Contain You, 2010
No Solid Form Can Contain You, 2010
November 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
November 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
November 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Another photo of the same place.
November 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Another photo of the same place.
Photo by Paolo Monti of a theatre created by Arman in 1973. It's in Parco Sempione, Milan. preserver.beic.it/delivery/Del...
November 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Photo by Paolo Monti of a theatre created by Arman in 1973. It's in Parco Sempione, Milan. preserver.beic.it/delivery/Del...
Photos by Liao Yusheng
figure-ground.com/st_ignatius/...
figure-ground.com/st_ignatius/...
November 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Photos by Liao Yusheng
figure-ground.com/st_ignatius/...
figure-ground.com/st_ignatius/...
Richard Deacon
Untitled, 1980
Untitled, 1980
November 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Richard Deacon
Untitled, 1980
Untitled, 1980
Hermann Landshoff
The Surrealists, 1942
New York, autumn 1942.
© bpk Berlin / Münchner Stadtmuseum, Sammlung Fotografie / Archiv Landshoff. via stedelijkstudies.com/journal/mode...
The Surrealists, 1942
New York, autumn 1942.
© bpk Berlin / Münchner Stadtmuseum, Sammlung Fotografie / Archiv Landshoff. via stedelijkstudies.com/journal/mode...
November 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Hermann Landshoff
The Surrealists, 1942
New York, autumn 1942.
© bpk Berlin / Münchner Stadtmuseum, Sammlung Fotografie / Archiv Landshoff. via stedelijkstudies.com/journal/mode...
The Surrealists, 1942
New York, autumn 1942.
© bpk Berlin / Münchner Stadtmuseum, Sammlung Fotografie / Archiv Landshoff. via stedelijkstudies.com/journal/mode...
Nowadays we might try to conceal the fact that a monument stands on a lower ground level, surrounded by a retaining wall. Luigi Rossini didn't do that in these prints.
November 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Nowadays we might try to conceal the fact that a monument stands on a lower ground level, surrounded by a retaining wall. Luigi Rossini didn't do that in these prints.
Meanwhile, mathematicians get excited about iterating the operation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker%2...
November 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Meanwhile, mathematicians get excited about iterating the operation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker%2...
ImageMagick has a messy interface, but it's powerful. Here's a terse command that turned a horizontal 10x3 grid into a 5x6 grid (including some necessary trimming and framing).
magick becher-blast-furnaces.jpg -shave 17x17 -crop 50%x100% +repage -append -bordercolor white -border 25 output.jpg
magick becher-blast-furnaces.jpg -shave 17x17 -crop 50%x100% +repage -append -bordercolor white -border 25 output.jpg
November 5, 2025 at 11:20 PM
ImageMagick has a messy interface, but it's powerful. Here's a terse command that turned a horizontal 10x3 grid into a 5x6 grid (including some necessary trimming and framing).
magick becher-blast-furnaces.jpg -shave 17x17 -crop 50%x100% +repage -append -bordercolor white -border 25 output.jpg
magick becher-blast-furnaces.jpg -shave 17x17 -crop 50%x100% +repage -append -bordercolor white -border 25 output.jpg
Lithograph by Ernest Born, 1931
November 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Lithograph by Ernest Born, 1931