Travel Day!
Current location: Milwaukee Airport, WI, USA
Reading: Status and Culture by W. David Marx
Listening: Hideous Bastard by Oliver Sim
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Travel Day!
I had an essay mapped out for this morning, but I decided last-minute to instead give myself a relatively luxurious amount of time to pack and prepare to leave for the airport—I'll save that essay for next week.
I'm leaving for Seattle this afternoon, where I'll be house- and pet-sitting for my sister. I'll have the chance to meet my new nephew and catch up with my parents and little sister-wing of the family before and after they leave for their own trip, which'll be nice.
This trip is notable in that it'll be the first time I've hit the US West Coast since the pandemic began, and in that it'll be the first time I'm traveling with my fancy microphone (for the audio nerds amongst you: an EV RE-20 with a Cloudlifter and Zoom H4n interface), so this'll be a good test of a slightly more portable version of my current, preferred setup (which could inform how I work on my audio projects during extended periods of travel in the future).
I'll also be switching over to using pencils (including some old-school colored pencils I inherited through the local Buy Nothing group) for the duration, which'll be a nice change-up from the acrylics and oil pastels I've been arting with (and loving) over the past handful of months.
My project schedule should be otherwise uninterrupted for the duration of this trip, and I'll probably be posting a decent amount on Instagram (stories in particular, as I just can't get excited about the main app these days) as I'm thrilled to be taking another trip so soon after my recent roadtrip along the US East Coast.
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Things I've Made This Week
Select, recent works from across my project portfolio.
Aspiring Generalist: Friendship Recession
Brain Lenses: Flanderization (podcast)
Climate Happenings: Arctic Fires
I Will Read To You: Gitanjali 60 (podcast)
Let’s Know Things: Apple Ads (podcast)
Curiosity Weekly / Daily: September 13 / September 13
One Sentence News: September 14 (podcast)
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Interesting & Useful
Microsculpture — levonbissstudio.com Portraits of insects from the collections of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
Phenomenal Skies and Animals in Action Top This Year’s Nature TTL Photography Contest — www.thisiscolossal.com
The annual Nature TTL Photographer of the Year contest garnered more than 8,000 submissions this round, with some of the most impressive images focusing on fauna in the wild and stunning light-based phenomena that illuminate nighttime skies.
World’s Biggest Data Breaches & Hacks — informationisbeautiful.net
Data visualization of the world biggest data breaches, leaks and hacks.
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Outro
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