Peter Richardson

A frog wearing a scarf. He is sitting under a tall conifer, frowning at a mushroom. A lamp sits nearby. #inovermyhead

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2025-10-26 16:41:16 UTC

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Hearing that I was a fan of Sanborn maps, the curator plucked a thick volume off of a shelf which turned out to be an elevation of the town’s main water supply, tracing the pipes from the reservoir in the hills to downtown, drafted by surveyors in the late 1800s as an accordion-fold drawing which would easily have been 50 feet if we’d opened it all up. Hand-inked, color-coded, and annotated with notes over decades.

2025-10-26 16:32:44 UTC

I got a brief tour of our local library’s archives yesterday, and the density of detail, nuance, and interconnection possible in a few scraps of paper always makes me feel a bit light-headed. Digital models are such an impoverished medium. I couldn’t bring myself to take any pictures

2024-12-20 01:51:52 UTC

This GDC 2021 video about location scouting for Untitled Goose Game is excellent https://youtu.be/cCsMz5tUXmc?si=pzvZlcm5TR0aT7aq

2024-12-18 21:02:59 UTC

Seems it was a little windy last night
https://6-28.mastodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/113/675/842/929/449/586/original/4e89b7127fac8c4b.jpeg

2024-12-17 17:28:37 UTC

One of my favorite features of Dog is when it is sleeping peacefully at my feet and then barks itself awake. Exactly the kind of sudden violent whiplash jump-scare vibe shift I don't get enough of in my life

2024-11-19 01:25:41 UTC

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Ooh, is there a backdoor? Maybe with the api?

2024-11-19 00:41:30 UTC

Flickr is twenty years old and you still can't change your email address.

2024-10-11 18:31:01 UTC

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More detail, angles, and higher-rez here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm0VhFLIFMc

2024-10-11 18:16:07 UTC

This 3D scan of Shackleton's ship made my heart beat faster. All the rigging's still there. Incredible
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/10/images-remarkable-preservation-ernest-shackleton-ship-endurance

2024-08-26 22:33:13 UTC

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The article ends with a reference to the Okjökull glacier memorial plaque, one of the most pre-haunted things I have ever seen:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okj%C3%B6kull
https://6-28.mastodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/113/030/688/800/757/820/original/24dcb0762184ee17.png

2024-08-26 22:25:10 UTC

Love this from @npub1esd…7wqv:
Our Very Strange Search for "Sea Level"
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/26/our-very-strange-search-for-sea-level
IA link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240825190520/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/26/our-very-strange-search-for-sea-level

2024-08-21 02:23:34 UTC

In anticipation of meeting a bunch of you at #xoxo, I wrote a bit about what I've been up to and chewing on. It includes bird migration data, which turns out to be gnarly as hell.
https://fjord.style/where-im-at