is shooting film making me a better digital photographer?
I took my mirrorless digital camera out for the first time in a while today.
Read more ->adding images to this blog with sanity and next/image
i wanted to add some images to my most recent post, but figuring out inline images in Sanity's Portable Text and how to make it work with Next.js's next/image wasn't as easily google-able as i thought!
Read more ->that I can just look at my iPad in near darkness and it unlocks is some real magic, eh
Using cats to share nuclear warnings with the future ->
there’s some great research on how to share warnings about nuclear waste with those 10,000 years in the future. one option is glowing cats!
What happened when people planted mystery seeds they got in the post ->
"About a month ago, I did receive seeds from China. I guess China because it looks like Chinese writing. I thought, 'Oh cool, maybe Burgess seeds or one of the seed companies sent me some seeds.' And, umm, like a dumbass, I planted them, not knowing there was a problem," a woman in New Mexico said in a voicemail left with the state's department of agriculture in late July. "And now, I've been battling this for a couple weeks. Now, where I planted them, and I remember where I planted them, everything that's in the garden where I planted them are having a hard time and are starting to die … I really don't know what to do at this point, so could somebody call me back and give me a little bit of direction about this? I know I'm a dumbass."
Combating rural decline with ice cream ->
Apple, squid ink, melon, and scallop - ice cream flavours repping Japan’s small towns.
Returning patrula / fire ->
a short documentary about indigenous fire practices, and how protecting the land can mean more than leaving it alone
Your body’s amazing reaction to water ->
an excerpt from James Nestor’s Deep, on freediving and the ‘master switch of life’
Read more ->Earthquake prep in Cascadia ->
a long read about indigenous knowledge, the pacific northwest, the cascadia fault
there’s snipers on the roof of the justice precinct today. extra security for the sentencing. that’s not a sight I ever thought my eyes would see and my skin still crawls.