At first this might seem like a simple bitmappy camera app, but there are oodles of options the more you dig in. A bit of an Easter egg is the ability to customize the menu logo to look more on brand. Maker Héliographe has a bevy of tools for photographers.

Simon Weckert designed a shirt intended to avoid AI surveillance, an admirable goal. Related: Decoy, a font that hides messages from AI.

I learned lots from this latest edition of Caitlin's alphabetical series for cinema. She turns her attention to carbon arc lights that were used to power projectors and created limitations and workarounds. Ingmar Bergman featured close-ups of the lights in the intro and closing shots of Persona.

I'd seen this glitched-out type before and was always baffled how it was possible. Marcin Wichary reveals the machinations of accent mark stacking that makes it possible. Related: I've word the new Four Tet record is solid.

And Jennifer Daniel has a good rundown on what's what.

Grace has a recurring series to share collected observations, some lighthearted, some deep. Her post from July closes with a contemplation as to why she keeps sharing online, and it resonated deeply with my own reasoning (and inspired this seasons' tagline).

I feel there's a line in the universe from the time before Brandi Carlile covered Alanis Morissette at the 2026 Newport Folk Festival, and after... Such an epic performance.

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I first became enamored with daily embroidery projects when Jen Schuetz posted about her monochrome hoop capturing 2024. (She's documenting temps this year.) Stumbled on this colorful version by Stardust & Stitches and it was a nice reminder of such endeavors (Threads / Instagram). Related: Days of Stitches by Steph Arnold.