Julieanne Kost is a Digital Imaging Evangelist and Director at Adobe. I know the name because her video tutorials taught me many of the basics of Adobe Photoshop many years ago. I never saw any of her photography work before tonight but WeAndTheColor had a link with her name on it recently and this paragraph or two is my earnest attempt to pay the kindness of stumbling onto it forward. Whether manipulating multiple images to create surreal or heavily processed dreamscapes, or playing with color and contrast in subtle ways to great effect, her work is refined, measured and worth consideration. (I would love to know what Minor White would say about these.)

If you have not clicked any links above, do yourself a favor by checking out her website. Her photography is impressive.

Also impressive is Mas Ergorov and his YouTube channel Advoko Makes. Max is a recently retired defense attorney from St. Petersburg who has some land in Karelia, Russia, “away from roads and people”, where he has built a log cabin using a chainsaw and hand tools. His channel is all about the making of that cabin, its steady improvement and other bushcraft tips and tricks on how to engineer in the woods, all alone with minimal equipment. Bushcraft YouTube it turns out is very interesting — and somehow, relaxing.

In a different corner of the world, Tolgahan Çoĝulu built a microtone guitar for his son using 3-D printed and other assorted Legos. (i love this)

Hearing him play Albeniz’s Leyenda — a song I’ve flirted with unsuccesfully for maybe 30 years?–and so well — on a fretboard made of Legos! — is kind of complicated for me. The man has chops.

Percival Everett sounds like an interesting guy who has done a lot of different things in his day. I’ve never read his books, but I do have an interest in his latest book(s) Telephone. Percival wrote three different versions which were published with no easy way to distinguish which version of the story any reader is actually holding. The publisher, true to this intent of the author, when sending advance copies to Award Committees and the like, sent the same committee members books at random virtually ensuring that the committee would not be discussing the same story. I have never been a part of a book club (with the exception of every class in college, ever) but I would probably like to sit in for something like that.

Speaking of unusual stories, did you hear the one about the 6 E-Bay executives and contractors who were charged this week for cyberstalking a couple who left bad reviews online? These geniuses were mad cuz words online and decided to expense flights to Boston, spend money on multiple hotel stays, rental cars and fund a whole smörgåsbord of stupidity in various strategies to harass this couple for weeks on end. They now face five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Finally, If you need a(nother) laugh:

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