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A VHS tape loop between two VCRs make a 90-foot video delay. The live installation "Time is Long" showed with Bushwick Art Projects in Brooklyn. Is the space between the VCRs cinematic?

The script looks through the page for any images with the class "low", and if found, reveals a button on the page and attaches the image swapping function to it. The function swaps out the source, and doubles the width/height.

The half size low-res image does two things: it greatly reduces the file size, and shows the pixels better (when enlarged by CSS). By using "image-rendering: crisp-edges;" in the CSS, the enlarged pixels are kept sharp.

"There is usually never a line at the train ticketing machines. Judging from an overheard convo, it appears that people are reluctant to use their rechargeable Octopus cards for fear of leaving a paper trail of them having been present at the protest. https://t.co/s1rsgSnCqL" / Twitter

old computers and publications

Aleator Press is publisher, archive, and rare book dealer specializing in computer-generated literature. We're using this profile to upload scans of our rare materials for the benefit of scholars, collectors, book dealers, and other interested parties.

grid-based system for designing simple symbols and fonts. including an example font. mainly intended for plotter drawings.

On the Necessity of Gardening tells the story of the garden as a rich source of inspiration. Over the centuries, artists, writers, poets and thinkers have each described, depicted and designed the garden in different ways. In medieval art, the garden was a reflection of paradise, a place of harmony and fertility, shielded from worldly problems.

To surmise, conspiratorial thinking is the expression of the hope for a better world that embraces shortcuts to avoid the task of trying to accurately model and understand the state of affairs. It is a cheap balm for anxious minds overwhelmed by a complex world, a secular replacement for the relief that religion provided with the knowledge that everything that happened was part of some cosmic plan. Going beyond this mindset while trying to be an efficacious actor means grappling with the anxiety that comes with taking on the responsibility of actually trying to figure out what’s going on. This process is uncomfortable and demanding but the alternative is uncomfortable, frustrating, demoralizing, and in the face of existential risks, potentially catastrophic. Only by grasping at more fundamental rooted dynamics do we have any hope of reliably affecting the world in any meaningful way.