Colin Dismuke
Engineer and runner.
Perth, Western Australia. Everything I make lands here first: photographs, short notes and found links in the stream, longer essays, what I’m reading, a training log kept for the long view, and projects at every stage of finished. More about me.
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all streamAlright, that’s all I got. Things are weird. Play with the weirdness. These tools are powerful and getting more powerful by the day. The valuations today seem irrational; the use-potential is not. Markets don’t know how to price our (rapidly approaching) future.
Genealogical research via Claude and Ancestry.com uncovers a birth family's Italian and Polish origins, an abandoned grandparent's true story, and the newspaper clipping behind a fabricated birth father's identity on an adoption record.
Gorton, a monoline pantograph-engraving font from George Gorton Machine Company dating to 1902, turns out to be the same face stamped into keyboard keycaps, elevator panels, and countless machined signs across Manhattan, revealed through a years-long photographic hunt.
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