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Cake day: Jun 12, 2023

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This visual is uniquely soothing, reminds me of artist Cory Arcangel, who did an art piece with just the Super Mario clouds drifting on a television screen - hacking into the NES cartridge and getting rid of everything else - to much admiration.

I remember reading an art journalist applauding the Impressionistic feel of the thing, the way Arcangel brought a background object to the fore, and in the process transformed it into something new entirely, with a surprising character and strength of presence.

Here’s a Whitney Museum link to the work.


Does this sound like the prototypical clickbait headline title, or what do you say?


I gotcha, I was just thinking how Patreon has been vital for nurturing a vast digital ecosystem of content creators who are in it as a labor of love.

EDIT: typo


The same goes for a lot of YouTube channels.
In fact, I opened a Patreon account just to show a little monthly support for an excellent, criminally underrated creator of videos on astronomy and its’ history, ParallaxNick.

Among other topics, the guy recently finished a four-part series on Galileo, a two-parter on Kepler before that, a single on Copernicus before that. By my calculations, I’m guessing a six-part masterpiece on Newton is right around the corner.


What the hell?!! Just this morning I told a bit about Mitnick’s story to my sister and my wife, separately, I’d never done that before with either. I haven’t talked about Mitnick with anyone in years. Until just this morning, and now 12 hours later, this.

Rest In Piece, Kevin. You have been in my thoughts today, as a living memory. I am glad to have bid you farewell in such a manner.