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• A map of Fairyland (c. 1920)
  “The Library of Congress has a remarkable digitized work in its collection titled “An anciente mappe of Fairyland : newly discovered and set forth,” by Bernard Sleigh, published in London around 1920. Here’s the high-resolution image so you can see some of the detail:”
• Roma VFX Breakdown
• What Captain Marvel Gets Right About Trauma – FLARE
  “On-screen, one of Captain Marvel‘s high-energy fight scenes is playing out and I can’t look away. “I’ve been fighting with one hand tied behind my back. But what happens when I’m finally set free?” Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) asks, before blasting the daylights out of her enemies to the tune of No Doubt’s “Just A Girl.” She’s finally unleashing her full powers after spending most of the movie struggling to come to terms with who she is—and what she’s capable of.”
• Photos of the New Futuristic Library in China with 1.2 Million Books
  “China recently opened a new futuristic library that contains a staggering 1.2 million books. If you enjoy architectural photography, Dutch photographer Ossip van Duivenbode‘s images of the library will be a feast for your eyes.”
• Getting Started With Arnold GPU (Beta) – Arnold Rendering Blog
• Higher! Further! Faster! More!
  “comic books have played an important part in cultures all over the world. From the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinée (such as Hergé’s Tintin stories) to British comics anthologies (think 2000 AD) to Japanese manga (One Piece, Naruto, Dragon Ball), comics are an important art form often used to comment on and inform national politics—as well as being shaped by them. American comic books are often most associated with the figure of the superhero. It is no accident that the first comic featuring Captain America, released in 1941, featured the titular hero punching Hitler in the face on the cover. Captain America was intended and acted as a symbol of national hope relating to the ideologies of that period.”
• Hello Neil, I’m trying to actually start writing creatively again after so many years of stifling myself but I don’t know what tools I can use. What writing tools and computer programs do you use to write out comic books and novels?
  “Novels and short stories, I use a paper and pen. Then mostly type it into LibreOffice. Scripts are paper and pen, then type it into Final Draft.”
• NASA: Meteor Exploded Over Russia With 10x Energy of Atomic Bomb
  “A meteor caused a massive explosion in Earth’s atmosphere in December 2018, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL). The fireball was so powerful that it released ten times the energy of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima,”
• 5.3 GPU (Beta)
• Why was I asked to condemn Islamist violence days after Christchurch? | Latifa Akay | Opinion | The Guardian
  Less than two days after the horror of the massacre of 50 Muslims in two mosques in New Zealand, I was asked in an interview on the BBC news channel whether or not I think Muslim communities in the UK do enough to condemn Islamist extremism.

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• 🎵 “Polymara” by Kelpe
• 🎵 “Snare Drums” by Rognvald
• 🎵 “I Need You” by Octo Octa
• 🎵 “C45p” by Helena Hauff

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WATCHING:

• 🎥 Peterloo (2018)

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READING:

• All the Names They Used for God
• The Stand
• The Rattle Bag
• Emile Zola Collection – The Rush for the Spoil (La Curee)

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