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Make Contact[ 2024.07.22 ] A Few Things of Note
Various things I’m looking at, reading, listening to, acquiring, etc. When something cool comes across my radar, I feel like I need to put it on other people’s radar.
Comics
Picked up the trade for Our Bones Dust by Ben Stenbeck, after reading the single issues as they hit comic shop shelves. Being a post-apocalyptic tale with artificial intelligence and extraterrestrials in the mix, this was one I highly anticipated. Really enjoyed the story, which is bleak but not without a bit of hope, and Stenbeck's artwork is fantastic. The first issue is available to read online via Boing Boing if it is something you’d like to check out.
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Attis, an alien AI archeologist on a final mission to Earth.
Books
Not really reading anything significant at the moment, but purchased some new releases that should be interesting.
Towards the Realm of Materiality: Designing Philip K. Dick’s Non-Existing Technologies
Sad Planets by Dominic Pettman and Eugene Thacker
Music
Decommissioned by Nate Hofer. Experimental solo pedal steel guitar, recorded in a decommissioned missile silo in Kansas.
There’s a story about it here. And a limited edition vinyl album with letterpress printed sleeve is available from Hammerpress or Nate’s Bandcamp. A beautifully executed project all around.
Art
Wood sculptor Aleph Geddis is opening his secret store again later this month. I purchased a few small “portal buddies” at a past sale, one wood carved and the other cast in bronze, which now grace my living room fireplace mantel. You can check out Geddis’ work on his website or find him on Instagram. And sign up for his mailing list if you’d like to get access to the secret store when it opens.
I also recently snagged a commissioned piece from Jesse Balmer, after he offered up limited slots on his site for original drawings based in one of the past eras of his work. I chose to have something from the "Cyberiad" series, pointing at a few pieces I really liked, with the prompt being that it depict an “act of creation or invention” in the spirit of the "constructor" robot protagonists from Lem's The Cyberiad stories. You can see the result below! And find more of Balmer's work here or on Instagram.
Design
Patricia Klein, whom I’ve followed for some time now after discovering her design work via Instagram, has some interesting collections up on the Are.na content curation platform that have grabbed my attention.
