Magazine
I fancy this blog as something akin to my own, personal magazine, where I riff, rehearse and write about whatever has overtaken my mind at any given moment.
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Pong 2: Be the Ball, Danny
Pong’s Legacy Returns with a Twist In something of an early Valentine to Gen X, Atari has announced an upcoming sequel to its groundbreaking, industry-launching, classic video game… Pong. “Sequel” is a loose use of the term since the new game is essentially a wholesale reimagining of the rudimentary dual-paddle-battle save the inclusion of its…
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The Lunar Codex, Or…
Lunacy Codified as a Dick Pic? Like any artist, notions of posterity occasionally creep into my consciousness: Will my work outlive me, or will I outlive my work? Right now, me and my work are neck and neck, though I sometimes suspect my work is killing me (though the result, I suppose, would be a…
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Hollywood’s AI Pas de Deux
FADE OUT: If there’s any question that major entertainment studios plan to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) in creative contexts that were once solely the domain of humans, look no further than your local job board or business networking event. Daedalus Howell | Story Desk is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my…
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Talk is Cheap… And I Like It
Check, check… Is this thing on? And… we’re back! One of the pleasures of being a local media gadfly is getting down with O.P.P. — Other People’s Podcasts — yeah, you know me. Daedalus Howell | Story Desk is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Here…
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Atomic Angst
‘Oppenheimering’ old wounds Nearly two decades ago, I somehow convinced my filmmaking pal, Abe Levy, to accompany me on a drive across the American southwest through the endless ribbon of mirages known as Interstate 40 until we reached the White Sands Missile Base in Socorro, New Mexico. This was not our final destination but an…
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The Expatriate Rabbit Hole
Featuring Hemingway, Banana Republic, The Moderns and Related Mischief Come with me, Dear Reader, into this warren of personal rabbit holes whose “ambient influence” has shaped some of my development as an artist. It starts here: The Banana Republic Catalog No. 32, Summer 1987 — themed on “Expatriates.” This arrived at my parent’s home on Hill Drive…
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Meanwhile…At the Story Desk
“Pffft,” you say. “WTF’S a ‘story desk?’” Well, it’s like the news desk at a newspaper but instead of, say, covering the Man Bites Dog beat, it’s all about the seamy underbelly of storytelling and why it matters (beyond fun and profit). Story is the currency of our times. Story shapes our culture, story drives…
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Bohemian Spring Lit: Burn After Reading
Every now and again, we find a way to make the newspaper gig a little more enjoyable — hence the North Bay Bohemian’s Spring Lit 2023 fiction edition. Below is my flash-fiction introduction. After all, there was only one J-school grad among us. The rest of the Press Club were English majors with exotic emphases like…
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Second Brain
This was originally written for the March 2023 edition of Philosophy Notes, the newsletter of the Marin Philosophical Society. There’s a continuum that flows like so: data to information to knowledge to wisdom. Age, I believe, is supposed to support that trajectory. And if not age, at least time. In my case, it’s been neither. …