This is an old edition of Meanwhile from an inferior, more simian newsletter platform that has unhelpfully severed all the hyperlinks. It’s included here in the archive simply for sake of completeness.
Artist and illustrator Chris Ware shares insights into his working practice, his battles with self-doubt and procrastination, and how comic books capture the “infinite present”.
The city of Melbourne assigned trees email addresses so citizens could report problems. Instead, people wrote everything from banal greetings and questions about current events to love letters and existential dilemmas. No doubt the trees have now sold this data to Canberra Analytica.
MUBI columnist Adrian Curry selects his favourite Al Pacino posters. Some right corkers here – one of those actors who just seems to be a lightning rod for excellent design.
But of course the per capita consumption of mozzarella correlates with the number of civil engineering doctorates awarded … and other spurious correlations.
Interesting news from the periphery of gaming: you can now remove all combat, missions and story from Assassin’s Creed Origins, leaving you free to explore its detailed recreation of ancient Egypt at leisure, or take one of the 75 interactive tours, written in collaboration with proper Egyptologists; meanwhile, Gareth Damian-Martin has launched the Unbound campaign for his new book The Continuous City, a collection of surprisingly evocative analogue photographs of digital cities.
Twelve letters that that didn’t make the alphabet. Fascinating look at obscure and discarded fragments of language.
Would you like to see some maps from comics? Of course you would. Here are some maps from comics.
Playmobil Vermeer and still life chutney – interesting New York Times piece on the Rijksmuseum and the reinvention of the gift shop.
How Steven Soderbergh shot his new thriller Unsane with just an iPhone. (Which is very impressive, but what I really want to know is how my son managed to use mine to make an 18-page PDF of pictures of my legs. Seriously, he was holding it for like thirty seconds.)
That is all.