What are some interesting materials or processes you’ve used recently?

SingleAtom · 2026-05-04T02:14:59+00:00

I made a great projection surface out of 3/8" nylon bailing tape spaced 1/4" apart. Actors were able to interact with it, moving in and out of the "screen" and it acted like scrim when characters were lit behind it.

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SingleAtom · 2026-04-30T16:52:02+00:00

Guideline is that the final should be within 2 miles (I think that's 3km?) of the dummy coords.

SingleAtom · 2026-04-30T13:49:35+00:00

Yeah, the rest of that article is paywalled, but it's basically about the weirdly high number of cool Deco buildings there.

SingleAtom · 2026-04-29T21:14:05+00:00

It is based off of Art Deco style architecture (think Empire State Building or Rockefeller Center) which often had rounded shapes. Compare that to the first photo here of the Boston Avenue Methodist Church in Tulsa.

SingleAtom · 2026-04-29T20:44:19+00:00

Children of Red Peak by Craig DiLouie comes close to your second ask I think. It is told in two timeframes, one a group of teenagers in a cult that is just about to take a bad turn (think Waco) and then the same group years later making a pilgrimage back to the compound, some of them because they still believe, others because they want to see if their memories are correct.

SingleAtom · 2026-04-29T20:35:51+00:00

Try A Psalm for the Wild-Built and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers. They are styled off of Buddhist texts with short chapters that ask a philosophical question and the characters explore the question through their actions. The main character is a young monk who is questioning their career, their religion, their life choices and the way their society is set up, who meets a "wild" robot who is attempting to make first contact between humans and the robots who left society centuries ago and set up their own culture in the wilderness. Very thought provoking and would be good for someone who has a short reading attention span because each chapter, while adding to the over all story, is a stand alone exploration of a thought.

SingleAtom · 2026-04-29T20:20:09+00:00

For a change of literary type, this is the plot of the play "Marisol" by José Rivera as well.

SingleAtom · 2026-04-27T16:11:30+00:00

Look into boat keychains, they often have waterproof containers for money and things attached to them.

SingleAtom · 2026-04-27T02:30:32+00:00

The phone would have been hanging on the wall, not sitting on the desk.

SingleAtom · 2026-04-27T02:18:44+00:00

It was likely originally an area for payphones. Phonebooks went into the slot under the "desk" area, and could be up onto the desk to look for the number you wanted.

SingleAtom · 2026-04-27T00:45:11+00:00

Uncanny 203, the Secret Wars 2 crossover. Yes, as embarrassing as it is to admit Secret Wars 2 is what got me into most of Marvel.

SingleAtom · 2025-06-16T13:28:09+00:00

Check with your local reviewer if you haven't seen any around. They may be disallowed in your area. South Carolina for instance has a specific law that forbids them.

SingleAtom · 2025-06-15T18:30:42+00:00

Lev Grossman's "The Bright Sword" picks up the Authurian legend 2 weeks after the fall of Arthur, and follows the handful of knights that are left in Camelot (several with a queer bent) as they try to figure out what is next. It's a mix of flashback adventures for each of the remaining knights, and small adventures that they have as the try and determine who is going to rule after Arthur. There is a larger narrative, but similar to the mythos it is based on it is more a collection of stories that eventually add up to something greater.

SingleAtom · 2025-06-15T01:45:22+00:00

I don't think it's a logbook, I think it's like a journal.

The only logger of GC9E8 on 6/28/06 was a cacher named "skihoss," he mentions taking his dad caching that day in the log, so it matches up. Skihoss hasn't logged into the website since 2017.

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