Gravitating towards recurring themes of cities, architecture, design, media and culture - often colliding in the same post, of the imagined connections - but here’s an attempt at filing them discretely nonetheless.

The state of urban territory as striated by new dimensions of panic where the mental and physical environment of the city overlap in an over-saturation of signs “that create a sort of continuous excitation, a permanent electrocution…”

On August 16, 1960 he made the final jump from the Excelsior III at 102,800 feet (31,330 m). He set records for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest freefall and fastest speed by a man through the atmosphere.

Superb article by Justin Taylor on what I thought was a piece of 70s apocrypha, Luigi Serafini’s illustrated alien manuscript The Codex Seraphinianus. How mysterious is a mysterious text if the author is still alive (and emailing)?

Gas Mask Showerhead by Chris Dimino. Morphing out of the tile wall.

The new modeling system simulated 10 years of phytoplankton development. Each map corresponds to the biomass density of one of the 18 dominant phytoplankton types. Red areas indicate the highest density.

Colour mood adjustments > Depth of field effect > Film effect > Cinemascope (optional) = Cinematic.