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The Major Oak in 2014. Last summer, in response to this press release about the Major Oak’s concerning condition (which we’d just seen first-hand) I felt the nee…

Hello there, Esteemed Subscriber of Newsletters. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. 🖨️ Designer and printmaker, Scott Bom…

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This is a collection of short stories by one of Ireland’s best playwrights. I think you can tell that these stories were written by someone who’s at home with the stage. The dialogue really shi…

When my brother Pete and I were kids, and our parents were out of town, we ditched school for a week and cut an “album” by recording backing tracks to my dad’s reel-to-reel, then live overdubbin…

If you do code-heavy talks in Keynote and want to syntax highlight the code, this might be for you.…

Did you think this was gonna be some grand metaphor blog post? Nope. You probably know: if you put Mentos in Diet Coke, it makes the carbonation go crazy and fizz shoots out of the bottle. It’s…

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