More necessary distractions

All over the place / a brief history of the digital watch / paintings by Hugo Grenville / buckle up for the story of Ellen’s Energy Adventure, brought to you by Exxon / Lo-fi drawing app / dismantling the dream: abandoned America / coastal erosion: then and now photographs in Sussex / an excellent post on the intricate work of illustrator Stephen Biesty / the miniature realms of Mozu World / at 40 and long defunct, Sonic Youth and the Business of Keeping a Dead Band Alive. The SY Bandcamp page is stuffed full of bootlegs / one of the last bastions of Brutalism-as-insult is now up for demolition / music by Human Hand / are NFTs really art? / portrait paintings by Romi Behrens / paintings by Juraj Florek / a guide to Lucid Dreaming / see also the Dreammachine / Plagiarism Today / You Can’t Take It With You, a tumblr (occasionally a bit nsfw) / Fetish Guitars, ‘the glory of Italian guitars from the 60s’ / prints by Matt Underwood.