2020 Advent Calendar [14] – This Thursday

December 14, 2020

This Thursday is Tori’s nickname, a creative based in Sheffield. Her instagram is here, relevant links are here, including a Christmas cards blog post on her website and her Etsy shop here. She does beautiful work such as the Christmas Hippo, the Water Creatures 2021 calendar, the British Birds perpetual calendar, the Teapot set and the Kangaroo-Goat duo. Her shop closes in two days!

I warned you I would try and do a sort of Advent Calendar recommending you an indipendent artist and illustrator each day till Christmas: I’m not making any promises, let’s see if I can keep this up.

technology

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI: Fail Safe, HAL 9000 and IBM

I am reading The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey by Piers Bizony, these days, I book I originally bought for the pictures (as if often happens with Taschen) and that’s revealing to be far more interesting than I gave it credit for.

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books and literature

Long John Silver: The True and Eventful History of My Life of Liberty and Adventure as a Gentleman of Fortune and Enemy to Mankind

I very rarely wish I had more stars to give a book, I’m usually content within the boundaries of 1-5, but this time I did. And it’s weird because I don’t like fanfiction at all. I think it’s a cringeworthy exercise to expand on someone

January 25, 2026 9:00 am

art and fashion

Pellizza da Volpedo’s Masterpieces in Milan

I was able to catch this exhibition during its last few days, and I’m glad I did. Pellizza da Volpedo: i capolavori, hosted at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna (GAM) in Villa Reale, is a major retrospective dedicated to one of Italy’s most compelling painters between

January 23, 2026 9:00 am