*It’s not for everybody, but it’s the kind of art-history you’d want to read off the website here. https://liseuse.harmattan.fr/9782336465340

That’s quite a weird little tool bag. The most interesting thing about it is that it’s designed for Laura Kampf’s long-established personal habit of scroUunging street junk for Makertaimnent purposes. Also, she made a hundred of them and they sold out instantly at a price-point of USD $160, so it’s nice to see this German […]

*This YouTube influencer is trying to pastiche the difference between histocial costume-play and high-tech prepper survivalism. *I don’t know if it “works,” but it’s interesting video preppertainment with a remarkable and distinctive look, so to that extent it would probably work for him. https://youtu.be/fmUignz2R6o?si=Y55ACz7sVdFAnQzH

*Includes a pocket-sized “planter’s knife” made in Sheffield, which Scott bought for himself in that city of steel-works, and carried around the extensive fields of Abbotsford, in order to work on pruning his trees. *Scott was a very serious land-developer and he often remarked that “his oaks would outlast his laurels.” Since Scott’s poetic laurels […]

*Well, let’s see how that works out. Los Angeles has had a “low-brow art” alternative gallery scene for quite a while. https://youtu.be/RHdGOp9Aers?si=uLYUYP__JmKCdckc

*Still pretty crude, but onsider the implications of this for, say, objects in movies. https://youtu.be/OrPf7V9FcYs?si=94TgejPO8C910HXr

*In which Charles Babbage makes a half-hearted effort to build some popular-entertainment kinetic-art computational contraptions. http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/16/babbages-dancer-by-simon-schaffer/ (…) Calculator or Dancer? ‘They needed a calculator, but a dancer got the job’ (The Marriage of Figaro, 1784) In the steam-punk metropolis of Gibson and Sterling’s Difference Engine, the sickly Keats runs a cinema, Disraeli is a gossip […]

Sir Walter Scott is making a general argument here against kids getting taught shop class and becoming hobby makers. Scott is a Scottish laird with a lot of friends in the aristocracy, and his main concern is that dilettante tech-hacking muddles class distinctions. A hobby tinkerer is “a trumpery gim-crack kind of a character who […]

The Sir Walter Scott Versificator For his 1825 historical novel “The Betrothed,” (which, oddly has the same title as Alessandro Manzoni’s historical novel “Promessi Sposi” from 1827) Sir Walter Scott decided to write a comical parody as an introduction. In this fantastic pretense, the book’s author conveys a tavern meeting of his most famous fictional […]