I’m always amazed that easy access to ice in a commercial eating/drinking setting seems to be very much an American construct.
Elsewhere, it’s either nonexistent, grudging, or prone to making the visitor ill.
Why are we the wackos here?
Do others not see the value?
Every trip I go on, I make a different set of mistakes re: what I forget.
Sigh.
My good buddy (and fellow MIT alum) Peggy Weil has a new piece at the NY MOMA, right on the first floor - if you're in the area, check it out!
Exhibition. Through Oct 4. “The pace of climate change is too slow to apprehend,” says artist Peggy Weil, “and its substances—gases like methane and CO2—are invisible.” A trailblazer of digital art, Weil has recently turned her attention to what she calls Extended Landscapes: portraits of the invisible layers “beneath our feet, above our heads, and back in time.” Her work reveals the planet to be a recording device, inscribing climatic and geological events into polar ice sheets and sedimentary strata. Core Memory brings two of Peggy Weil’s “underscapes” to the immersive 24-foot screen in MoMA’s lobby. From the youngest snow to the oldest ice, 88 Cores descends two miles and 110,000 years through Greenland’s ice sheet, where time is preserved in vertical bands of ice, air, and gas. In 18 Cores, Weil shifts from polar cold to geothermal heat, assembling images of rock cores extracted from California’s Salton Sea between 1985 and 1986. This film reveals a subterranean landscape of shales, siltstones, and sandstones dating to the Pleistocene era. Through these vertical time capsules, Weil makes the physical evidence of environmental shifts perceptible and undeniable.
Just noticed on a website I go to a fair amount (etrade.com) that they invite me to “log on”, not "log in”, and once I'm in, I see a button to “log off" not “log out”.
Has this always been the case, or did they change their prompt?
Not sure why it's hitting me - I think of both as fine, but somehow this seems new there.
Very much enjoying the Kevin Hart led Netflix show “Funny AF”
So distressing to see that there are so many amazingly funny folks out there working.
I need to be going to more comedy shows and supporting this extant talent!
Also, this show is good. Watch it.
If anyone has any tourist-y suggestions for someone (me) visiting Stuttgart Germany, I’d appreciate it.
Weather-wise, I’ll be visiting next month.
I heard the Mercedes museum was worth seeing, and that there were some good mineral baths there, but I don't have any specific recommendations.
Been a while since I was jumping between Obj-C++ and Swift.
My brain is smart, but not quick.
Thank goodness for helpful IDEs…
Aw, damn - Dean Tavoularis died the other day:
What a huge talent. I never met him, but his work was amazing. I didn't know that he started his career as a Disney storyboard artist, but it makes sense.
He started his production designer career on Arthur Penn's “Bonnie and Clyde” (which I recently rewatched - surreal and amazing).
He did a ton of work with FF Coppola - The Conversation, the Godfather movies, Apocalypse Now, One from the Heart, so much great work.
