A small collection of artworks by John Baldessari, an amazing artist who died yesterday. If you’re unfamiliar with his work, A Brief History of John Baldessari is worth watching too.
RIP John Baldessari
RIP Joe Frank
One of the great radio voices is gone. This is from Time- Old from a collection of Hearing Voices on PRX.
If billions of years preceded our existence on Earth, billions of years will surely follow after our existence as well. So that our life here is like one flash of a strobe light. The wink of an eye. And if your life is merely a microscopic blip in the vast dimension of time, is its importance to you just an illusion?
Also worth a listen: Dreamers on Unfictional
Mapzen Exit Interview
I gave an “exit interview” to the Civicist blog, talking about the Mapzen shutdown.
The code and data were always designed to outlive the company … basically we were always working on open geo primarily, and a lot of that work feels more durable than any particular company.
