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the ecstasy of sanctimony.
Such a great and concise phrase. Hadley Freeman referred to it recently in her Guardian column when describing the court of Twitter’s harsh and questionable justice.
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I’ve wanted to do this for ages with Distributaries. I tried to find a minimum distance solution that wasn’t OTT back when I started collecting location coordinates, but I probably wasn’t using the right vocabulary in my searches… ended up ordering them manually (!). Would like to get this in place, I think the manual ordering is part of the reason I’ve been tardy in adding more coordinates.
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An “integrated platform for creating high-fidelity web archives while browsing, sharing, and disseminating archived content.”
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After VVORK: How (and why) we archived a contemporary art blog
Just came across this 9 February 2015 Rhizome editorial. I’ve browsed VVORK a bit before, but I suppose I hadn’t really thought about it’s status or longevity as an archive.
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I’m looking forward to the long weekend, going to spend a bit of time at the Channa Horwitz exhibition at Raven Row. It’s on until Sunday 1 May 2016.
Channa Horwitz, Logic for Variation and Inversion on a Rhythm, 1976. Image via VVORK, who in turn seem to have found it via Berlin gallery Aanant & Zoo.
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Databases are generally associated less with open-endedness than with the muted horrors of bureaucracy, in which the fear and pain and misery of human experience is reduced to data and evidence.
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Death by gentrification: the killing that shamed San Francisco is an article by Rebecca Solnit published yesterday in the Guardian. It is a thorough report on a very sad event situated in an increasingly complicated city.
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Lows western France 1011 and 100 miles east of Iceland 991 losing their identities
Couldn’t find the shipping forecast on the Met Office DataPoint’s product list, but I did find the relevant XML feed.