🔗 Were pirate ships actually beacons of diversity and democracy?
I don’t know - but I like the idea!
🔗 Staten Island, Forgotten Borough .. I wonder how many NYC visitors think they have ‘been to New York’, when in fact they have likely only ‘been to Manhattan’ (riding in from JFK or La Guardia or even Newark aside). That said it is easy to forget the island, even if you do think of Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx - the island would be the last - if at all - on most lists. (Full disclosure - for all the times I have been to NYC, ‘the island’ remains the only Borough I have never been to.)
That all said, it does seem an interesting - if not ‘complicated’ - place with multiple contradictions. Great read.
🔗 Does it matter if Substack is in financial trouble?
TL;DR : No - and I agree.
But - in there are some great links from @adders that are there regardless of Substack’s survival that allow you to seamlessly move off Substack and on to Ghost, Buttondown or Beehiiv. Nice.
I haven’t thought about this album for years - and then Tedium wrote about it at length ….
🔗 🎵 Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds: The Rock Opera That Shaped the Form
I relistened to some of it earlier today. I still enjoyed it - but to my ears it hasn’t aged well. Not yet put my finger on why - but I suspect a new listener might not engage with it in the same way.
I just read @colinwalker ’s 🔗 post re Ryuichi Sakamoto’s passing …
Sharing a 🎵 perfectly elegant beautiful piece of music that he wrote over 40 years ago.
Farewell Ryuichi and thankyou.
Via Doc Searls
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Series 1 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
It follows a formula (but what doesn’t these days?). For all of that though - enjoyed it - and set up for a second series by the looks of it. If you have seen the ‘young Jack Ryan’ …
My first visit to the ‘sevens’.
UPDATE: 230427
… and immediately went back into the eights - until 7th April.
“I think the relationship of a warm-blooded creature versus an object that is still and silent—which is essentially what I think sculpture is—for me is the sort of fundamentals. Sculpture is in our …