Incredible circuit board illustrations, all full-page, from the first volume of Kazuo Umezz’s manga My Name Is Shingo (1982–1986). A fairly common aspect of manga is to, after pages of sometimes casual and spare drawing, to be suddenly hit with a page or spread of intense detail, like cityscapes or nature scenes. Here the eye focuses on the detail inside a machine — a machine that is, at times, the story’s narrator. I worked in manga for a half decade, and moments like these thrill me to this day.
Another day, another doorbell, or set of doorbells. I like to think the Master Lock set-up on the left is for when the electric buttons fail. Bonus points for the one apartment that gets a mailbox.
I love impossible architecture. I love absurdist architecture. I love when both are explored in a classical form, as with this bridge at the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I find knowing I’ll revisit my posts to be a positive and mellowing influence on my social media activity. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media.
▰ The problem isn’t the construction noise. The problem is that the construction noise sounds exactly like a giant dental drill.
▰ RSS 4 Life
▰ With great power … comes a lot of drop-down menus I get confused by and lose track of
▰ I love the front of the C.G. Jung building on Mission in San Francisco, and not just because the tiles make me think of Conway’s Game of Life.
▰ Morning trio for street construction noise … — and who am I kidding? I can’t hear anything else.
▰ Synths!
▰ Finished reading one novel and four graphic novels this week. The novel: Lightness by C. A. Higgins. The graphic novels — this is me getting back into the swing of things with my Marvel Unlimited subscription — were largely in the recent Ultimates line (Deniz Camp and Juan Frigeri’s Ultimates: Volume 1: Fix the World, Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto’s Ultimate Spider-Man: Volume 1: Married with Children, and Peach Momoko’s Ultimate: X-Men: Fears and Hates), plus the start of Al Ewing and Martín Cóccolo’s run on Thor, Immortal Thor Vol. 1: All Weather Turns to Storm. And I’ve started trying out leagueofcomicgeeks.com as a way to track my comics reading. So far, so good.
