Diagonal
Diana Kimball BerlinWeekly notes on the history and future of technology from the desk of Diana Kimball Berlin.
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First it was arcades and now it’s AI
Tove Jansson, “Resting after work,” 1945; a fresco for a factory canteen. Jansson is best known for the Moomins, but
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The handwaves were soft and acceptable
“The Panorama of Europe, a New Game,” published in 1815 by Wallis & Son, found in the Victoria & Albert Museum collection online. Seeing this reactivated in me a long-buried memory of the book I wanted to write on the history of board games...
In a hyperdimensional world
Illustration of a "portable" camera obscura studio in Kircher's Ars Magna Lucis Et Umbrae (1645), featured in the Wikipedia article on the Hockney-Falco thesis, which holds that “such optical aids were central to much of the great art from...
The illusion of narrative continuity
David Hockney, “40 Snaps of My House, August 1990,” 1990. Bright like us.
Hello from…London! Here for a while; later for longer.
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The scaffold pattern here — separate setup la...
Perfection is a security blanket
“NASA astronaut and Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch peers out of one of the Orion spacecraft's main cabin windows, looking back at Earth, as the crew travels towards the Moon,” April 2, 2026.
Hello from late April. A week from...
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