RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET - I was ready for a whimsical personification of the web. I wasn’t ready for such a dull script. Oh well! #movies
@topghost Mmm… its indistinguishable… I just invented it.
I wonder how often I order cold brew at Dunkin and receive iced coffee instead. Half the time?
Oh hm I might have done it.
I am trying to get my IndieWeb-ActivityPub tool working, Mastodon is accepting my posts but they are not actually showing up and to figure out why feels utterly impossible!
Zerp zerp
“Coin-operated Boy” is playing at the JetBlue terminal at JFK and it’s very unsettling!
SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME - It kinda lagged in the middle but I’m suddenly excited to see where Marvel movies are going again! Everybody in this slice of the universe is so cute!! #movies
Cows: nature's dogs
THE DEAD DON’T DIE - Is there anything I enjoy more than a meta genre send-up? Is there‽ #movies
This is my first summer in an apartment without built-in A/C and I’m trying go without, but today I discovered that it’s too hot to eat M&Ms and I’m feeling so torn
It seems like I'm not alone this year in choosing to not celebrate the Fourth of July. That brings me just a little comfort.
I built a service that translates Mastodon Atom feeds into JSON feeds that are formatted more like micro.blog’s feeds. I’ve been reading all my social follows in my feed reader for a few weeks and it’s really quite pleasant. Try it!
I'm going to be in Portland July 19–21! I've never been there and I'm excited to experience it.
I’ve had a cold for a week and I think it’s mostly from the twice-daily arctic blast of the subway cars
@manton I didn't know he worked for Disney until I explored his website! I also didn't realize he had so many books. Time to dive in.
I loved No Such Things by Bill Peet as a kid and forgot about it completely for many years. I'd really love to find that old copy for my bookshelf now. (Bill Peet's website is a 90s treasure.)
Walking around Red Hook and Gowanus today, I think I must have seen every scooter in Revel’s fleet.
Last weekend I visited Otherworld in Columbus, Ohio. It was a lot of fun! It's a sort of immersive art experience in the vein in the vein of Meow Wolf. But whereas House of Eternal Return was a bunch of artists coming together to create a single thing, Otherworld seems to have a much more singular focus. As I explored with my friends, we slowly began to realize that there was a puzzle to solve here. The clues were sparse and didn't perfectly fit together, which we suspected was because the show isn't finished yet—it's only been open about a month. I'm excited to visit again in a year and see how things have evolved.
I think my favorite part of the design was how gracious it was to the guests. The world-building preamble is in a side room off the main entrance that's easy to miss and—more importantly—easy to skip. There's a loose framing narrative around the idea that we are test subjects for some sort of experiement, and a mystery to uncover around how and why things started going wrong, but ignoring all of that does not at all detract from the main experience. It would be easy as a designer to force the audience through some sort of expository preshow and, like the old Hydrolators at EPCOT, that preshow would probably be forcefully disabled very quickly. Well done, Otherworld!
