17 June
Been watching and reading a lot about Hockney in the past week. This is a great video. Gives you a great sense of his thoughtfulness and experimentation
16 June
The ABC have a really nice visualisation of Elon Musk's wealth. When numbers get this big they start to become unreal. Unfortunately the only way to contextualise such abstract numbers are with other abstractions...
15 June
I thought I would be so much better at eyeballing numbers
11 June
The Damascus rose has survived empire, crusade, and civil war. Now it faces a heating planet, and the question of who gets to claim it...
What the photographs alone could not fully show was the scale of what the rose is now up against. Syria sits at one of the sharpest edges of the climate crisis. Rainfall levels during the 2024-2025 season were about 60% below the annual average, while wheat production, down 40%, left a shortage equivalent to what would feed 16 million people for a year. The rose harvest followed the same trajectory. Where 270 hectares were cultivated with Damascus roses before 2011, only 120 remain planted today. Rose plants that should live 60 years now last 25, their lifespans shortened by heat and erratic rainfall.
The photos in this story are great
4 June