WYO 130 between Laramie and Centennial, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
Month: October 2020
WYO 130 between Laramie and Centennial, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
Our new book “Overview Timelapse” will ship in less than a week so we’ll be sharing some images from the book leading up to release day! Pre-orders are available now through the link below:
www.amazon.com/Overview-Timelapse-How-Change-Earth/dp/1984858653
We’re so excited that we got to include this image of San Francisco, California, and the surrounding Bay Area, in the book’s section about water. Home to some eight million people, the region was captured here by satellite at a low angle from 800 miles away over the Pacific Ocean. When freshwater from inland California mixes with salty water coming from the ocean, it creates brackish wetlands that provide a vibrant habitat for wildlife, including many species of birds. Over the last century, nearly 80 percent of the Bay’s wetland habitats have been diked and filled for building, farming, and salt extraction.
37.777500°, -122.416389°
Source imagery: Maxar
Our new book “Overview Timelapse” will ship in less than a week so we’ll be sharing some images from the book leading up to release day! Pre-orders are available now through the link below:
www.amazon.com/Overview-Timelapse-How-Change-Earth/dp/1984858653
We’re so excited that we got to include this image of San Francisco, California, and the surrounding Bay Area, in the book’s section about water. Home to some eight million people, the region was captured here by satellite at a low angle from 800 miles away over the Pacific Ocean. When freshwater from inland California mixes with salty water coming from the ocean, it creates brackish wetlands that provide a vibrant habitat for wildlife, including many species of birds. Over the last century, nearly 80 percent of the Bay’s wetland habitats have been diked and filled for building, farming, and salt extraction.
37.777500°, -122.416389°
Source imagery: Maxar
Does anyone else… feel crazy… just kind of looking at the world on google maps and marveling at the fidelity? You can even rotate it around willy nilly, making things look wonk as heck. Oh look there’s Australia at the top of the globe, what’s it doing it there? And patchy ol’ Antarctica. Finally, you end up on the streets near Jindabyne Dam, and it looks so much like so many other suburbs on Earth that you feel the need to stop.
Does anyone else… feel crazy… just kind of looking at the world on google maps and marveling at the fidelity? You can even rotate it around willy nilly, making things look wonk as heck. Oh look there’s Australia at the top of the globe, what’s it doing it there? And patchy ol’ Antarctica. Finally, you end up on the streets near Jindabyne Dam, and it looks so much like so many other suburbs on Earth that you feel the need to stop.
“Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare – Chicago? Los Angeles? Miami, Florida? Vincennes, Indiana? Syracuse, New York? Anyplace, everyplace, where there’s hate, where there’s prejudice, where there’s bigotry. He’s alive. He’s alive so long as these evils exist. Remember that when he comes to your town. Remember it when you hear his voice speaking out through others. Remember it when you hear a name called, a minority attacked, any blind, unreasoning assault on a people or any human being. He’s alive because through these things we keep him alive.“
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
“Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare – Chicago? Los Angeles? Miami, Florida? Vincennes, Indiana? Syracuse, New York? Anyplace, everyplace, where there’s hate, where there’s prejudice, where there’s bigotry. He’s alive. He’s alive so long as these evils exist. Remember that when he comes to your town. Remember it when you hear his voice speaking out through others. Remember it when you hear a name called, a minority attacked, any blind, unreasoning assault on a people or any human being. He’s alive because through these things we keep him alive.“
New Fiction 2020 – September
“The Enigma of Amigara Fault” by Junji Ito (2001)
Gah fuck, he did it again. A short story about finding one’s place.
South Park: The Stick of Truth dev. Obsidian Entertainment (2014)
I usually read up on the criticism after the fact, and this one’s near universal response was, “But it’s good?” Obsidian reportedly went through some kinda hell to get this one done and their RPG prowess shines right through. That and the South Park creators’ efforts to jam it full of fan service makes for something that should’ve been bad or so offensive that it’s unplayable, but they balanced the kids’ adventure stuff with the jokes about anal probes and aborted fetuses surprisingly well.
I heard an interesting take on Lynch’s career up this point. He’d been an all-star director with a string of hits, and he was (perhaps rightfully) concerned that this would be his first bump in the road. I think it makes for an interesting entry in his filmography, though I reckon that’s hindsight for ya. It’s a wild sci-fi story that clearly packs in more than a movie’s worth of events. It’s fun to see some future collaborators from his weirder works show up in this first big one.
Nosferatu the Vampyre dir. Werner Herzog (1979)
This was my first Herzog outside of Grizzly Man and his snarling appearance on The Mandalorian. It’s a tender look at a lonely monster’s quest for something to make immortality tolerable. Ponderous both in the portrayal and intent, and the deviations from Bram Stoker’s original make it especially fascinating. Also, Herzog wanted to murder the star?
Blacula dir. William Crain (1972)
This may be where I start to see a theme in the season’s vampire fare. Like Herzog’s Nosferatu, Crain’s Blacula is shown to be a lonesome creature burdened with a curse they didn’t ask for. The advertising makes it out to be some kind of exploitation movie about the white man’s fear of black men coming in taking their women, but it’s actually done with more care than you’d expect. Some scenes are still straight up terrible and age poorly, but overall it’s worth knowing as a snapshot of movies in that period.
New Fiction 2020 – September
“The Enigma of Amigara Fault” by Junji Ito (2001)
Gah fuck, he did it again. A short story about finding one’s place.
South Park: The Stick of Truth dev. Obsidian Entertainment (2014)
I usually read up on the criticism after the fact, and this one’s near universal response was, “But it’s good?” Obsidian reportedly went through some kinda hell to get this one done and their RPG prowess shines right through. That and the South Park creators’ efforts to jam it full of fan service makes for something that should’ve been bad or so offensive that it’s unplayable, but they balanced the kids’ adventure stuff with the jokes about anal probes and aborted fetuses surprisingly well.
I heard an interesting take on Lynch’s career up this point. He’d been an all-star director with a string of hits, and he was (perhaps rightfully) concerned that this would be his first bump in the road. I think it makes for an interesting entry in his filmography, though I reckon that’s hindsight for ya. It’s a wild sci-fi story that clearly packs in more than a movie’s worth of events. It’s fun to see some future collaborators from his weirder works show up in this first big one.
Nosferatu the Vampyre dir. Werner Herzog (1979)
This was my first Herzog outside of Grizzly Man and his snarling appearance on The Mandalorian. It’s a tender look at a lonely monster’s quest for something to make immortality tolerable. Ponderous both in the portrayal and intent, and the deviations from Bram Stoker’s original make it especially fascinating. Also, Herzog wanted to murder the star?
Blacula dir. William Crain (1972)
This may be where I start to see a theme in the season’s vampire fare. Like Herzog’s Nosferatu, Crain’s Blacula is shown to be a lonesome creature burdened with a curse they didn’t ask for. The advertising makes it out to be some kind of exploitation movie about the white man’s fear of black men coming in taking their women, but it’s actually done with more care than you’d expect. Some scenes are still straight up terrible and age poorly, but overall it’s worth knowing as a snapshot of movies in that period.