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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.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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See notes and further research prompts below in relation to yesterday’s 24 Pull Requests event. It was organised by Codebar, Ladies Who Code, and Your First PR, sponsored by Gitter, Shutl, and Twitter. I left Twitter HQ with my brain fizzing, always a good thing.
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Render of 8pp gate fold, done with Blender Internal engine
Been experimenting with Blender these past few months, pretty incredible free/open source 3D software. Definitely a bit of a learning curve, but very addictive and satisfying once you get the hang of it.
Links to some of the more helpful tutorials and info I’ve found are listed below. I switched from the Blender Internal engine to Cycles recently for improved results w/ architectural rendering, so some of these links are specific to Cycles.
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This is the recipe I follow for dal/dhal/dahl/daal tadka/tarka. “Tadka” is a tempered spice-and-oil topping that you add before serving to enhance the flavours of the dal. The ingredients and method are based on one of the dal tadka recipes on the excellent site Vegetable Recipes of India (see recipe). It would be best to use arhar or tuvar dal, but I use red lentils generally since they’re the easiest to find and still taste great. This serves 4 people and is excellent with jeera rice.
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This recipe for jeera rice is based on a very similar recipe from one of my favourite Indian recipe sources, Vegetable Recipes of India. It includes just a few method and quantity adjustments.