Hi, I’m Ním
I think a lot about how work works and talk to people about how they do the thing they do.
I wrote The Theory of Conceptual Labor to talk about a particular kind of hard work.
I wrote this short book and this long essay to talk about that work in the arts.
I review the hard work of dancers and visual artists and sometimes big shows.
Besides writing, most of my conceptual labor goes into my paintings or practicing Sun style Taiji.
I also do all kinds of work at all kinds of levels when it comes to making websites. Mainly for the rad folks at Bletchley Park, but I freelance too.
I Refuse To Believe That This Is The Best We Can Do | Current Affairs
Doreen Simmons, British-born authority on sumo wrestling, dies at 85 - The Washington Post
Absurdist worlds in miniature – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian
Stairway to Nowhere – BLDGBLOG
The People Who Can Control Their Goose Bumps - The Atlantic
Poemas del río Wang: The unbearable mask
The Poignant Gulag Art by Stalin's Doomed Meteorologist - Atlas Obscura
An Early Modernist Master of Light Moves into the Spotlight
From Arsedestroyer to Zoogz Rift: 50 underground albums you've never heard of | Music | The Guardian
The Coming Software Apocalypse - The Atlantic
How Renaissance Painting Smoldered with a Little Known Hallucinogen
I downloaded an app. And suddenly, was part of the Cajun Navy. - Houston Chronicle
Blue Brain team discovers a multi-dimensional universe in brain networks | EurekAlert! Science News
How the British Library Digitized One of the World’s Largest Books | Colossal
Salvador Dali’s bizarre but sexy photoshoot for Playboy, 1973 | Dangerous Minds
CAR BOYS Final Episode Explained - YouTube
Can the Fern That Cooled the Planet Do It Again? - Scientific American
Rare color photos document the festivities at a 1941 state fair
Guest post: Dirty Rant About The Human Brain Project | mathbabe
How giant tunnelling machines work
Frames Which Frame Themselves by Taylor Holland | Colossal
[toread] The Context and History of Library Hand
New Impossibly Intricate Embroideries by Chloe Giordano | Colossal
[toread] How Getting Hit by Lightning Changed a Woman's Synesthesia - The Atlantic
Feathered dinosaur tail captured in amber found in Myanmar
Incredible discovery of 40,000-year-old tools for art and engineering | Ars Technica
Sharp by Havel+Ruck in Houston (and the specter of gentrification) – Glasstire
Behind This Plant's Blue Leaves Lies a Weird Trick of Quantum Mechanics
Full(er) House: Exposing high-end poker cheating devices
[toread] A Forty Year Update on Meme Theory | The Evolution Institute
[toread] Seeking paradise: The image and reality of truck art - In-Depth
Light and matter mixed in a tiny golden trap
Scientists Reveal That Dolphins Speak In A Holographic Language | Your News Wire
The Secret World of Tiny Phones That Go Up Your Bum | VICE | United Kingdom
I am on the Kill List. This is what it feels like to be hunted by drones | Voices | The Independent
Student Emily Temple-Wood Writes A New 'Women In Science' Wikipedia Entry Every Time She's Harassed
Roy Sullivan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This Ludicrous New Instrument Makes Music with 2,000 Marbles | Colossal
Hieronymus Bosch's 'Garden of Earthly Delights' Is Now a VR Universe | The Creators Project
A Logarithmic Map of the Entire Known Universe in One Image | Colossal
Artist Thornton Dial, an American Genius, Dies at 87
St Johns Bridge - Portland Or - Gfycat
The NSA’s SKYNET program may be killing thousands of innocent people | Ars Technica UK
Darwin's Kids Doodled All Over His "Origin of Species" Manuscript
galaxy passes behind a black hole
I think my car is a jpeg. - Imgur
Observable_universe_logarithmic_illustration.png (4200×4200)
Edith’s Scrap Book | MMU Special Collections
The Hateful Life And Spiteful Death Of The Man Who Was Vigo The Carpathian
Men Explain Lolita to Me | Literary Hub
The first plasma: the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device is now in operation | Richard Dawkins Foundation
BLDGBLOG: Roentgen Objects, or: Devices Larger than the Rooms that Contain Them
[toread] What can a technologist do about climate change? A personal view.
I Think About the Dave Matthews Band Poop Bus Incident a Lot
[toread] So You Say You Want A Gallery
A Disgruntled Federal Employee's 1980s Desk Calendar
Dad Jokes | National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse
Pounded In The Butt By My Own Podcast — NIGHT VALE PRESENTS
Tourist Attraction in Indonesia Rips Off Chris Burden, Yayoi Kusama, and Museum of Ice Cream
[toread] The meaning of snafu, clusterfuck, and shitshow: There's a difference — Quartz at Work
All Possible Humanities Dissertations Considered as Single Tweets
TEAMSUZETTE: THE TIMES I AM FEELING LIKE ANTIONE DONIEL
The Editor's Comments On Milo Yiannopoulos' Canceled Book Manuscript Are Full Of Good Burns - Digg
Restaurant Review: Tao in Hollywood Is Worse Than We Imagined
Mooning: A history. When did people start baring their butts as an insult?
Design thinking lessons from our cats – Hacker Noon
12 Summits with Outrageous Names - Backpacker
To create American sounding names - Imgur
this is a universe factory, internet was out this morning so i made a 5 minute...
Niminy–piminy | Definition of Niminy–piminy by Merriam-Webster
Large animal related dump - Imgur
[toread] I saw Tarzan and this is my review after some wines | Mama Said
Everything What's Wrong Of Possums: It's All Of Them - The Toast
What Is Cuil Theory? - Cuil Theory
The Secret World of Tiny Phones That Go Up Your Bum | VICE | United Kingdom
The 55 Best T-Shirts Are On Zazzle
Reviewing the terrifying dogs in Westminster's 'Working Group' - SBNation.com
The Best of the Rejection Collection | visualhumor
Pets That Are Stuck But Pretending Everything Is Fine
[toread] McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Don’t Worry, I Checked My Privilege.
The Spite House, an Architectural Phenomenon Built on Rage and Revenge
How Wile E. Coyote Explains The World
Frank Chimero - Hi, I’d Like To Add Myself to The New Yorker
I Found The Worst Things At CES (with images, tweets) · edzitron · Storify
Bay Area Painting Right Now: Keith Boadwee’s Nasty Master Class | KQED Arts
[toread] Academic-Job Listings for My Exes - The New Yorker
An ass - head of an art school
Jim Henson’s Newly Discovered Journal Reveals The... | ClickHole
trolling furries - Album on Imgur
Poo Sank This Nazi Sub | Motherboard
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
A Twitter Bot That Generates Beautiful, Imaginary Moths
A Surprisingly Uncomplicated Look At Rube Goldberg Machines in Movies | Atlas Obscura
Signs That Vaguely-Named Building Is A Secret Church
The Verge Review of Animals: the octopus | The Verge
Black Twitter? How about Banksy Twitter. - Album on Imgur
[Letter from Los Angeles] | The Speakeasy, by Dave Madden | Harper's Magazine - Part 7
HOLE QUEST (with images, tweets) · halfcadence · Storify
[toread] The Millions : How to Title Every Book You Ever Write
Princeton Alumni Weekly: Perspective
How El-P Ruined Childhoods and The Berenstein Bears | Mass Appeal
Badger recovering in shelter after being found drunk on Polish beach | World news | The Guardian
Your underwhelming UK holiday photographs | UK news | The Guardian
[toread] A Minority President: Why the Polls Failed, And What the Majority Can Do « George Lakoff
I Refuse To Believe That This Is The Best We Can Do | Current Affairs
No World Dreamers: Sticky Zeitgeist
Rab the Giant versus the Witch of the Waterfall
A Disgruntled Federal Employee's 1980s Desk Calendar
The Men Who Can’t Cum – MEL Magazine
Environmental collapse makes for terrifying nightmares, and compelling art | The Outline
Doreen Simmons, British-born authority on sumo wrestling, dies at 85 - The Washington Post
The Poignant Gulag Art by Stalin's Doomed Meteorologist - Atlas Obscura
My Depression Is Like Having A Bad Dog
The Coming Software Apocalypse - The Atlantic
The Intersectional Presidency – Tressie McMillan Cottom – Medium
[toread] Nuclear War? Eggs and Taxes More Urgent | Harvard Magazine
I downloaded an app. And suddenly, was part of the Cajun Navy. - Houston Chronicle
[toread] Forbidden love: The WW2 letters between two men - BBC News
20 Principles for Successful Community Organizing | Alternet
How to Stop Gentrification | New Republic
Let’s Call It Assimilation Food
The Birthmark of Damnation: Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Black Body | Viewpoint Magazine
What the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive wants the world to know - CBS News
Guest post: Dirty Rant About The Human Brain Project | mathbabe
Quote by Alain de Botton: “At the heart of sulk lies a confusing mixture o...”
[toread] The Context and History of Library Hand
President Trump Has Done Almost Nothing - POLITICO Magazine
Some Thoughts on "The Art of Practicing" by Madeline Bruser | Lenna Pierce | The Hypocrite Reader
[toread] Eliot A. Cohen Responds to Donald Trump's First Week - The Atlantic
[toread] History Repeating : November 21, 2016 | edward_ winkleman
How to Ask a Proper Question at a Public Event - The New York Times
[toread] One Man’s Quest to Change the Way We Die - The New York Times
Ask Zompist: Should life be hard? | Zompist's E-Z rant page
Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic - Allison Parrish | Open Transcripts
this is a universe factory, internet was out this morning so i made a 5 minute...
myrrlyn comments on ELI5: How are programming languages made?
There’s No Such Thing As A Protest Vote – Medium
Nanotech Wafer Turns Carbon Dioxide Into Ethanol | Popular Science
Beaverton girl makes bandage breakthrough, wows Google, wins $15,000 | OregonLive.com
Who Gets to Write What? - The New York Times
Putting Away Childish Things | Inc.com
The mental health zines filling the gap that therapy doesn’t | Dazed
Tomory Dodge on painting | Just Another Painter
[toread] Remarks at the SASE Panel On The Moral Economy of Tech
[toread] Seeking paradise: The image and reality of truck art - In-Depth
Father & Daughter Duo Takes Over The Internet With Their Natural Hairdos | Bored Panda
Ciudad Juárez: Mexico’s drug wars, rendered in art | The Economist
New Special Edition Colors from Williamsburg | Just Paint
What is the critical book for your hobby/passion? - books hobbies passions | Ask MetaFilter
Student Emily Temple-Wood Writes A New 'Women In Science' Wikipedia Entry Every Time She's Harassed
Richard Prince Sucks - artnet News
“Go! Confront the problem! Fight! Win!” - Edna “E” Mode: Archive
[toread] [Serious] Immigrants to America: What was the most pleasant surprise? : AskReddit
How a Kitten Eased My Partner’s Depression - The New York Times
The Glasgow Effect, funding the arts and pissing on your chips | A Thousand Flowers
How Bad Are Things? | Slate Star Codex
Men Explain Lolita to Me | Literary Hub
5 Mind-Blowing Facts Nobody Told You About Guns | Cracked.com
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