The magic of mother-of-pearl clouds: A stunning visual experience The Watchers
The Astonishing Biodiversity of Fungi Blooms in Max Mudie’s Macro Photographs Colossal
Gong Show Doomberg
WaPo: Want To Be Happy? Don’t Be A Lawyer.
He was driving taxis in Echuca. Now Hollywood’s hailing Scott ‘Mr Inbetween’ Ryan
Nearing 50, Scott Ryan was driving taxis and delivering pizzas in Echuca. Fast forward a few years and the world can’t get enough of his cult suburban crime series, Mr Inbetween. As the reclusive Melbourne screenwriter with a remarkable life story explains, things don’t tend to fall in his lap.
By Angus Fontaine
Escape rooms
Randomness follows / exploring a collection of old Wired articles via Kottke) / ‘Invisible Houses‘ are never really invisible / houses on film, six classics / Edinburgh recreated in Far Cry / exploring video game worlds with LostGamer.io / a brief history of topiary / on the ‘a half-decade of memory-holed music from roughly 2003-2009‘, what are the songs we lost at the heyday of the iPod era? / sort of related, ‘Did the Music Business Just Kill the Vinyl Revival?‘: ‘In other words, a technology that is 70 years old—and in which labels have invested almost zero additional dollars—is priced as if it’s a hot new innovation requiring billions of dollars in startup capital.’ Key takeaway: ‘Half of vinyl buyers don’t own a record player.’ / Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification, or how the platform ‘heats’ the creators of its choice to artificially create demand, just like a rigged fairground game: ‘… Tiktok is handing out giant teddy bears.’ / the art of the escape room at Immersology, which provides ‘structures & theories of immersive theatre’ (via Culture Study) / vintage Pyrex goes viral / why is Toyota late to the EV party? / CarSized is a fun comparison site that shows just how much the automobile has ballooned in size over the decades / a gravity simulator at xkcd / whatever happened to the fourth plinth statues? / the end of Pollock’s Toy Museum? / The Classic is a magazine about photography / The Case of the Devil’s Baby of Ravenswood.
