Set Fire To Flames - "Your Guts Are Like Mine"

Black Country, New Road - "Science Fair"

This is amazing stuff!

Also "Chaos Space Engineer"

GyongSeong Creature

Still watching, only seen two episodes.  Enjoyable enough; post war Japan, missing girl, rich dude who owns a pawnshop needs to find her.  Somehow it's intriguing enough to watch, although not fully captivating.

The two sleuths are interesting enough characters.

Virginia Postrel - "The Power of Glamour"

 

Glamour is, rather, a form of nonverbal rhetoric, which moves and persuades not through words, but through images, concepts, and, totems. (Even when conjured as word-pictures, glamorous images are perceived and remembered as emotionally resonant snapshots, not verbal descriptions.)

Glamour is powerfully persuasive. Yet because it relies on imagery and channels desire, it is often dismissed as trivial, frivolous, and superficial.

the old Scots word glamour described a literal magic spell. Glamour (or a glamour) made its subject see things that weren't there. A 1721 glossary of poetry explained: "When devils, wizards or jugglers deceive the sight, they are said to cast glamour o'er the eyes of the spectator." Glamour could, Scott wrote in 1805, "make a ladye seem a knight; / The cobwebs on a dungeon wall / Seem tapestry in lordly hall." That power was believed to stretch into the real world. In his diary, Scott worried that "a kind of glamour about me" was mking him overlook errors in his page proofs; he wondered whether the right herbal concoction "would dispel this fascination." (As both magic and metaphor, glamour and fascination are closely related.)

Glamour [...] emerges through the interaction between object and audience. Glamour is not something you possess but something you perceive, not something you have but something you feel.

Unlike escapist entertainment that simply provides emotional distraction, glamour is escapist in the profound sense identified by the geographer Yi-Fu Tuan. Echoing Queen Christina's Antonio, Tuan argues that escapism is the essence of culture, which he defines as "the totality of means by which I escape from my animal state of being." This uniquely human escapism allows us to shape the world, and ourselves, through deliberate action.

    A human is an animal who is congenitally indisposed to accept reality as it is. Humans not only submit and adapt, as all animals do; they transform in accordance with a preconceived plan. That is, before transforming, they do something extraordinary, namely, "see" what is not there. Seeing what is not there lies at the foundation of all human culture.

A single static two-dimensional portrait – a selective representation "preserved for posterity" – is, by its very nature, deceptive. Viewers perceive such a portrait differently from a real human being. If, as [Jessica] Coen claims, young women do not realise that "most waists don't really bend without a roll of flesh" or that "a 40-year-old woman actually does have some wrinkles," it is because they've mentally edited away those flaws in the people they see every day. In the flux and movement of life, the mind overlooks imperfections that appear glaring in a still image. Retouching may therefore produce an image truer to the mind's eye. 

Reid McCaster, Edward Smith - "Bullet Points" podcast

listened to only one full episode (Spec Ops:The Line) so far, but enjoyable.

Reid McCaster, Edward Smith, Astrid Rose - "Okay hero"

Bunch of essays on Metal Gear Solid.  Nothing crazy but enjoyable to read.

This is a world where reasonable assumptions about anybody or anything are eventually all rendered moot, owing to increasingly complex information and technology. It represents the end of knowledge, the type of postmodern, perpetually self-reconfiguring society described in 1979 by French historian Michel Foucault, whereby new versions of understanding–new discourses–simply transpose old, without any of them ever being proven objectively true or false. In Foucaultian postmodernity, all truth is relative, disembedded from traditional, face-to-face means of communication, individuals are free to credibly distribute their versions of knowledge to anyone and everyone, creating a world where, if enough people share and are convinced of a discourse, that discourse is assimilated into everybody's reality. Here, the once-local members of FOXHOUND have gone rogue; soldiers without a war, their actions have become singular and apolitical, and they've turned on their countrymen.

Imaging at ASML

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdlZ8KYVtPU

Amazing stuff.  Almost impossible to realise it all actually works.