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Surfing with coffee 2

Surfing w/ coffee #2. Order of exploration:

A
Google search “web worker” paper.js jerky (trying to sort out animation+ajax issues) → Paper.js issue #634 “Allow using paperjs without canvas” → Paper.js issue #561 “Add Font and Glyph types from plumin.js” (↓B) → Plumin.js (↓C) → Louis-Rémi Babé @louis_remi → Surge, static web publishing

B
Opentype.js → Frederik De Bleser (↓D) → NodeBox, tools for generative design

C
Yannick Mathey @_____________y → USA, limited edition typographic print

D
Overtone, collaborative programmable music → Meta-eX, “Live coding. Live synths. Live music.”

See previous surf sesh.

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The Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion at the Colby College Museum of Art

Photo of the entrance to the Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion at the Colby College Museum of Art

Lobby of the Colby College Museum of Art and the entrance to the Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion.

Visited the Colby College Museum of Art recently for the fist time in years, the Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion is a great addition. Wish I brought a proper camera.

Photo of the Colby Museum façade

Entrance to the museum, including Richard Serra’s “4-5-6” in the courtyard.

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On California, and a book review

I grew up in California but moved away in mid-2010 to the UK for a postgrad at Central Saint Martins. Recently, I had the opportunity to visit San Francisco with my partner. It had been almost five years since I was last in the state.

I had a great time showing him some of my favorite things in San Francisco, discovering new favorites, seeing family and friends. California was as beautiful as I remember, perhaps more so. I didn’t realise just how much I had missed the environment, the fog and the wildlife. A couple of friends and I happened to visit Ocean Beach on an overcast day when thousands of bright indigo jellyfish-like creatures washed up on shore. I spent an afternoon walking the trails through Mt. Sutro with a good friend, passing California poppies, Pepper trees, serpentinite boulders, eucalyptus, mountain irises, hummingbirds, columbines, poison oak.

However, a few of the more disappointing aspects of Californian life have lingered in my mind since returning to the UK, things that I rarely noticed (or maybe more accurately, tried to ignore) when I was living in the Bay Area.

One moment from our trip sticks out in particular.

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