Greg Moore

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:23:02 -0400

The fix is not a better way of highlighting, but building in friction: forcing yourself to retrieve, explain or generate something without the source at hand. That feels harder and less successful in the moment, precisely because you can fail at it, and that friction is what leaves a lasting trace.

Jeroen Sanders explaining why you need to reprocess things into your own words to truly internalize them.
I feel like this applies as much to diary entries as it does studying.

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:18:21 -0400

A high-profile influencer can mobilize a following within hours of posting a standout dish at a restaurant, creating demand for a menu item that can’t possibly be sustained—all to re-create a moment that wasn’t theirs to begin with.

Danny Chau, Before He Was Bourdain

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:00:45 -0400

Another evening visit to the restored rouge river.

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:49:35 -0400

I am this many years old. 💿

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:35:14 -0400

When I got to art as an undergraduate student, I felt like, oh, this is amazing. I want to be able to learn all of these things. But my program, like most art schools, was basically entirely conceptual. So I didn’t have any practical classes in terms of like how do you learn how to paint better?

You just have studio time where you sort of figure it out by yourself, and then you have crit classes where you gather with artists or other students who are all doing totally different things, and then you just talk about your project for an hour.

Atalanta Arden-Miller

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:55:16 -0400

Full moonrise

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 23:52:04 -0400

After decades of being buried beneath a shitty parking lot, like a lifted curse, the failed racetrack’s demolition has finally allowed the river to rejoin the world.

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:56:32 -0400

It would’ve been a hugely valuable lesson years ago, to realize that it’s not simply that my journals and sketchpads don’t need to be perfect. It’s best when they’re not!

Chuck Jordan, Semi-Precious Paper

I love Chuck’s attitude towards keeping unfocused and messy journals. Much like the photos I share on this blog, the process is the whole point.

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:49:33 -0400

These cooling winds are quite welcome in July.

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:34:34 -0400

If we allow these [AI] tools to dictate our visual culture, we must accept that it will be vitrified by machines which consider a few billion webpages equivalent to the sum total of human existence. I don’t accept that. How dare we abandon so many countless traditions and people and ideas and nuances, simply because they are underrepresented in the training data?

Rutherford Craze, From Human Hands

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:25:11 -0400

It’s Canadian wildfire season again. 😷

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:49:11 -0400

The gate swings open and the dungeon reveals itself before you…

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:08:09 -0400

The number of personal projects that AI has killed continues unabated.

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:38:50 -0400

Backyard Bounty

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 07:44:30 -0400

Went to our speakeasy for some live jazz.

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:47:14 -0400

It’s harder to convince people there’s something wrong with them when they intimately understand that the things they are experiencing are normal and shared.

smallthingsgrowing, What you’re missing without a village is not just material help

The people you know in real life are also trying to figure things out as they can. The problem is not struggling, it’s struggling alone.

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:59:35 -0400

Ascension

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:26:24 -0400

Sacred Doorway

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:29:23 -0400

”Your local caffeine dealer”

The most appropriately advertised coffee shop.

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:23:04 -0400

Star Dream Fountain
Marshall M. Fredricks, 1908-1998

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:40:00 -0400

If anyone wants to hire me, I’ve really got my finger on the pulse of middle-aged white guys trying to get their hair cuts at the least busy time of day who end up all going at the same time.

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:48:14 -0400

Whenever you’re lucky enough to find it, you have to receive life’s poetry – even when, and especially if, it makes for a funny story to tell.

Federico Viticci, WWDC 2026: Between Seasons

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:20:55 -0400

The Last Burning of the Light

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:34:33 -0400

Fortress of higher learning.

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:50:53 -0400

The world, one giant selfie jostle. Eventually, right before the machines turn off our light of meat-based consciousness, we’ll do some Borgesian space selfie and be done with it all. But for now, we selfie on the ground, with great desperation, preening for the screen, to be uploaded to god only knows where for god only knows what audience. The volume of media captured defies comprehension. It is empyrean in volume, flip-flopping beyond theory into the theology of bytes, for how could so many selfies be contained within the physics of our world?

Craig Mod, Walking The Brooklyn Bridge