Essays, investigations, and true stories —written and made by ert.
My air monitor kept screaming about a pollution source I couldn't see, smell, or explain. So I did what I do: I found it.
In Big Magic, Liz Gilbert describes ideas as practically tangible entities that float around like dandelion spores, looking for a place to germinate and grow.
If you put on an album you've never heard before, maybe check the song list before getting into the shower.
Two letters written in 1939, just days apart, from a young woman to a man over 100 miles away, allow us to look into their lives and an urgent mystery.
A short and true story of cascading circumstances, cause and effect, and the adventures that followed.
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This is a tabula recta. It's for cryptography, specifically, the polyalphabetic Vigenère cipher, aka le chiffre indéchiffrable.
I noticed daylight doesn't just change — the change itself changes. So, naturally, I spent way too long trying to draw it.
