I'm off in San Francisco this week for some conferences. It's been at least a decade since I've been out here and I'm enjoying soaking it all in. Posts will be light in the meantime. Here's a smattering of things I've been looking at to tide you over:

• Superculture - a network of podcasts and magazines "dedicated to the underobserved." Love the tagline, the mission and the website is mesmerizing. Do click through. Lovely.
• Wordpress going after WP Engine - this deserves its own post as there are a slew of articles to round up but the TLDR is: Wordpress is going after WP Engine for, basically, building a business that looks like it's part of the Automattic family. It's a fascinating situation because Wordpress is open source, so WP Engine has the right to do what it is doing but they are absolutely being deceitful in their execution. At the moment, I'm siding with Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg.
• Vector Halftone Maker - nice web tool for making some compelling images. Keeping this around for future projects.
• Talking with Hands - I've been working with this artist for over a decade but they've really hit their creative stride in the last few. There's a new single coming out on Friday and a new album in October which I think speak to many of the topics that readers of this site will appreciate. The promo we are rolling out has been super fun.
• Musee Mecanique - since I'm San Francisco, peering into a coin operated entertainment zone with relics "ranging from orchestrions, coin operated pianos, antique slot machines, and animations, down to small bird boxes" seems appropriate. "Orchestrions" is a fantastic word.

Talk soon. Take care.