Phil Betts

@philbetts
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Art, code, society, foliage. PhD'd in Management (booooo) and movies? (yaaaaaay!) Probably the world's most pre-eminent Fox Searchlight Pictures scholar, 1994–2009. Real Little Miss Sunshiners (#Sunbeams) get it. Bisexual icon. Highly suggestible.
LocationSydney/Gadigal land
@Edent I realised recently that emoji are valid CSS class names, which meant I didn't have to make separate class name strings for a chart with elements labelled by emoji. So it definitely is useful!

Had signed up for a Sydney Morning Herald deal - went to cancel after a few months and of course there's no online cancellation option - cancel via phone only during mostly office hours.

Which ensures I will never, ever sign up for the SMH again.

New Piece: Bat Rays! 🌊 Honoring a new space at Giant Robot opening up.

Divers from all over come to see our California kelp forests. What delight is it to look up and see a bat ray's "smile" underwater. :3

Animals show. 🦈 LA & online: https://www.giantrobot.com/products/animals-susan-lin-bat-rays-in-kelp-forest

#stainedglass #artistsonmastodon

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Hard to know if anyone has ever suffered as much as I am currently suffering.
Home sick with a cold. That sucky time when you're slightly too wired to sleep, too tired to do anything physical (plus chest hurts), too foggy to focus, not foggy enough to not be bored.

A new microseason in the "Grain rains" (穀雨 Kokuu) division has begun:

First reeds sprout (葭始生 Ashi hajimete shōzu)

This microseason will last until April 24.

Imagine getting the brief to write some copy on a fucking bin bag and then smashing it out of the park like this. Sensational effort.

"I think it’s really cool that we have the choice to say, ‘Hey, we’re not gonna put this on streaming services … [we] have that choice as young artists and really promote our views through every aspect of the music—not just the playing, not just the creation of it, but in the distribution of it as well."

The compact disc isn’t going quietly:

https://chicagoreader.com/music/music-feature/compact-disc-cd-cds-revival-resurgence/?ref=thetonearm.com

The compact disc isn’t going quietly

Vinyl has long been the big story in physical media, but CDs are cheaper, quicker to manufacture, and poised for a comeback.

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