Indirectly related to Land Unlost; as part of a map-drawing side-experiment I’ve been tinkering with getting an old ink plotter running, and I’ve put together a Raspberry-Pi computer to interface with it. For that computer I’ve been using and really like this touch-screen (I just plug it into a Raspberry …
Since working on Land Unlost I’ve been paying a bit more attention to technologies of the past. The color blue is rare in nature, yet famously used throughout antiquity from ancient Egyptians to Celts, and strikingly by the Nora tribe in Horizon Zero Dawn (seen above). The blue/indigo dye came …
Far from the desert, it all began in the tropical jungle on the crater of an active volcano. This tale starts, as many such tales do, with a shortcut. Four of us were heading back from the crater on a trail when someone saw what looks like a shortcut…
