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I took the bus partway over from Crouch End (which was a pretty nice bus ride) and then walked from a bus stop on the A406 (this was a pretty long and interesting walk), and eventually arrived at the complex./p>div idattachment_296 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/01.approach.jpg>img fetchpriorityhigh decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-296 classsize-full wp-image-296 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/01.approach.jpg altThe pedestrian approach. width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/01.approach.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/01.approach-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-296 classwp-caption-text>The pedestrian approach./p>/div>p styletext-align: left; clear: both;>In scale and presentation, the RAF museum has a lot more in common with Udvar-Hazy than with the main Air and Space museum in Washington. There are some thematic groupings and some interpretive panels (in some instances, the panels seem to have been donated directly from trade show displays, so, for example, there is one for a cluster bomb that basically says “this cluster bomb rules and you should buy it!” which I thought was pretty funny), but in general it’s just rooms with a huge collection of really interesting airplanes. The exception to this is a very nicely-done World War I exhibit which is up in a building that used to be the Royal Aircraft Factory./p>p styletext-align: left; clear: both;>A category of person will arrive at a museum like this and want to photograph everything. I basically fall into that category, and here are some of the pictures I took./p>div idattachment_320 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/25.walrus.jpg>img decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-320 classsize-full wp-image-320 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/25.walrus.jpg altSupermarine Walrus! width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/25.walrus.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/25.walrus-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-320 classwp-caption-text>One of my favorite seaplanes, the Supermarine Walrus./p>/div>div idattachment_319 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/24.sunderland.jpg>img decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-319 classsize-full wp-image-319 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/24.sunderland.jpg altShort Sunderland width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/24.sunderland.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/24.sunderland-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-319 classwp-caption-text>The Short Sunderland, another classic flying boat./p>/div>div idattachment_311 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/16.stanraer.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-311 classsize-full wp-image-311 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/16.stanraer.jpg altA Supermarine Stanraer. width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/16.stanraer.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/16.stanraer-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-311 classwp-caption-text>The Supermarine Stanraer, despite being a pretty handsome aircraft (if you ask me), was apparently fairly reviled by the people who had to fly it./p>/div>div idattachment_316 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/21.gladiator.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-316 classsize-full wp-image-316 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/21.gladiator.jpg altGloster Gladiator width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/21.gladiator.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/21.gladiator-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-316 classwp-caption-text>I built a plastic model Gloster Gladiator when I was little, and had read a lot about it, but this is the first time I ever saw one in person./p>/div>div idattachment_317 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/22.cr42.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-317 classsize-full wp-image-317 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/22.cr42.jpg altFiat CR.42 width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/22.cr42.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/22.cr42-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-317 classwp-caption-text>Fiat CR.42, the Gloster Gladiator’s traditional adversary./p>/div>div idattachment_318 stylewidth: 610px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/23.kitsch.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-318 classsize-full wp-image-318 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/23.kitsch.jpg altA somewhat overdone painting width600 height800 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/23.kitsch.jpg 600w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/23.kitsch-225x300.jpg 225w sizes(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-318 classwp-caption-text>This painting had a really appropriately ridiculous name, but I have forgotten what it was./p>/div>div idattachment_315 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20.dog_.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-315 classsize-full wp-image-315 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20.dog_.jpg altDog in uniform and other paraphrenalia width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20.dog_.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20.dog_-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-315 classwp-caption-text>The dog jacket on display was custom-made for a squadron dog, then used to dress a teddy bear until it got into the RAF museum collection./p>/div>div idattachment_314 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/19.lightning.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-314 classsize-full wp-image-314 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/19.lightning.jpg altThe English Electric Lightning, a classic Cold War interceptor. width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/19.lightning.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/19.lightning-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-314 classwp-caption-text>The English Electric Lightning, a classic Cold War interceptor./p>/div>div idattachment_313 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/18.hudson.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-313 classsize-full wp-image-313 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/18.hudson.jpg altAwesome Kangaroo on an ANZAC Lockheed Hudson. width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/18.hudson.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/18.hudson-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-313 classwp-caption-text>Awesome Kangaroo on an ANZAC Lockheed Hudson./p>/div>div idattachment_312 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/17.needlepoint.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-312 classsize-full wp-image-312 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/17.needlepoint.jpg altAviation needlepoint. width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/17.needlepoint.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/17.needlepoint-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-312 classwp-caption-text>This is part of a tapestry about the RAF that some interested parties put together./p>/div>div idattachment_298 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/03.oldmeteor.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-298 classsize-full wp-image-298 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/03.oldmeteor.jpg altGloster Meteor DG202/G width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/03.oldmeteor.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/03.oldmeteor-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-298 classwp-caption-text>The Gloster Meteor DG202/G, one of the earliest jets./p>/div>div idattachment_310 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/15.latermeteor.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-310 classsize-full wp-image-310 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/15.latermeteor.jpg altGloster Meteor F.8 (probably) width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/15.latermeteor.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/15.latermeteor-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-310 classwp-caption-text>Later model Meteor (seriously look at how much more together it is now that they have captured Me-262s to crib from)./p>/div>div idattachment_309 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/14.he-162.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-309 classsize-full wp-image-309 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/14.he-162.jpg altHe-162 Volksjäger width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/14.he-162.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/14.he-162-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-309 classwp-caption-text>The Heinkel He-162 Volksjäger./p>/div>div idattachment_307 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/12.vulcanbay.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-307 classsize-full wp-image-307 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/12.vulcanbay.jpg altAvro Vulcan Bomb Bay width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/12.vulcanbay.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/12.vulcanbay-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-307 classwp-caption-text>Avro Vulcan bomb bay, with a screen showing Avro Vulcans taking off in rapid succession in a practice scramble./p>/div>div idattachment_308 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/13.vulcanfront.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-308 classsize-full wp-image-308 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/13.vulcanfront.jpg altAvro Vulcan width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/13.vulcanfront.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/13.vulcanfront-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-308 classwp-caption-text>Avro Vulcan and bombs, with stuffed dog and dummy security guy./p>/div>div idattachment_306 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/11.lancaster.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-306 classsize-full wp-image-306 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/11.lancaster.jpg altLancaster nose art width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/11.lancaster.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/11.lancaster-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-306 classwp-caption-text>The classic claim chowder on the side of this Lancaster should not distract from the fact that so-called “strategic bombing” was both counterproductive and a crime against humanity./p>/div>div idattachment_305 stylewidth: 610px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/10.window.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-305 classsize-full wp-image-305 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/10.window.jpg altPathfinder window width600 height800 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/10.window.jpg 600w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/10.window-225x300.jpg 225w sizes(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-305 classwp-caption-text>A stained glass window honoring the RAF pathfinders, which had formerly been in an actual church. Sort of an atrocity!/p>/div>div idattachment_303 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/08.halifax.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-303 classsize-full wp-image-303 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/08.halifax.jpg altwrecked Halifax width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/08.halifax.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/08.halifax-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-303 classwp-caption-text>This Handley Page Halifax crash-landed and sank in a lake after helping sink the Tirpitz, but was recovered in the 70s./p>/div>div idattachment_304 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/09.liberator.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-304 classsize-full wp-image-304 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/09.liberator.jpg altNose art on an ANZAC B-24. width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/09.liberator.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/09.liberator-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-304 classwp-caption-text>Nose art on an ANZAC B-24. I liked the bee./p>/div>div idattachment_302 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/07.sikorsky.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-302 classsize-full wp-image-302 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/07.sikorsky.jpg altThe Sikorsky R-4, pioneer of the standard helicopter layout. width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/07.sikorsky.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/07.sikorsky-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-302 classwp-caption-text>The Sikorsky R-4, pioneer of the standard helicopter layout./p>/div>div idattachment_301 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/06.typhoon.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-301 classsize-full wp-image-301 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/06.typhoon.jpg altHawker Typhoon width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/06.typhoon.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/06.typhoon-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-301 classwp-caption-text>Hawker Typhoon, in the “coming right for us” pose./p>/div>div idattachment_300 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/05.mew_.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-300 classsize-full wp-image-300 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/05.mew_.jpg altPercival Mew Gull width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/05.mew_.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/05.mew_-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-300 classwp-caption-text>Interwar racing plane, of interest for several reasons, particularly its hilarious name./p>/div>div idattachment_299 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/04.gondola.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-299 classsize-full wp-image-299 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/04.gondola.jpg altNulli Segundus width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/04.gondola.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/04.gondola-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-299 classwp-caption-text>In view: the tail of a Eurofighter, a P-51, part of a Mosquito, but in particular the gondola of the first British military airship, the Nulli Secundus./p>/div>div idattachment_297 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/02.markings.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-297 classsize-full wp-image-297 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/02.markings.jpg altMarkings width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/02.markings.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/02.markings-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-297 classwp-caption-text>There were several displays of this type, and I thought they were really great./p>/div>div idattachment_322 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/27.hunter.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-322 classsize-full wp-image-322 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/27.hunter.jpg altHawker Hunter on a stick. width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/27.hunter.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/27.hunter-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-322 classwp-caption-text>The sky got pretty dramatic as I was leaving, and I got a nice shot of the Hawker Hunter mounted in the parking lot./p>/div>div idattachment_321 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/26.bob_.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-321 classsize-full wp-image-321 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/26.bob_.jpg altSpitfire and Hurricane, under their classic English sky. width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/26.bob_.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/26.bob_-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-321 classwp-caption-text>And then the classic Spitfire and Hurricane./p>/div> /div>!-- .entry-content --> footer classentry-meta> span classcat-links> Posted in a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/category/picture-time/ relcategory tag>picture time/a> /span> span classsep> | /span> span classtags-links> Tagged a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/early-jets/ reltag>early jets/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/historical-atrocities/ reltag>historical atrocities/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/museums/ reltag>museums/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/narratives-about-what-we-have-been-getting-up-to-recently/ reltag>narratives about what we have been getting up to recently/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/nulli-secundus/ reltag>nulli secundus/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/seaplanes/ reltag>seaplanes/a> /span> /footer>!-- .entry-meta -->/article>!-- #post-## --> article idpost-276 classpost-276 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry 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srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140106.jpg width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140106.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140106-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-264 classwp-caption-text>6 January, 2014/p>/div>div idattachment_265 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140108.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-265 classsize-full wp-image-265 alt8 January, 2014 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140108.jpg width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140108.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140108-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-265 classwp-caption-text>8 January, 2014/p>/div>div idattachment_266 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140109.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-266 classsize-full wp-image-266 alt9 January, 2014 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140109.jpg width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140109.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140109-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-266 classwp-caption-text>9 January, 2014/p>/div>div idattachment_267 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140114.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-267 classsize-full wp-image-267 alt14 January, 2014 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140114.jpg width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140114.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140114-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-267 classwp-caption-text>14 January, 2014/p>/div>div idattachment_268 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140115.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-268 classsize-full wp-image-268 alt15 January, 2014 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140115.jpg width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140115.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140115-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-268 classwp-caption-text>15 January, 2014/p>/div>div idattachment_269 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140115pm.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-269 classsize-full wp-image-269 alt15 January, 2014, the afternoon srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140115pm.jpg width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140115pm.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140115pm-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-269 classwp-caption-text>15 January, 2014, the afternoon/p>/div>div idattachment_270 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140121.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-270 classsize-full wp-image-270 alt21 January, 2014 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140121.jpg width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140121.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140121-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-270 classwp-caption-text>21 January, 2014/p>/div>div idattachment_271 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140203.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-271 classsize-full wp-image-271 alt3 February, 2014 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140203.jpg width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140203.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140203-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-271 classwp-caption-text>3 February, 2014/p>/div>div idattachment_272 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140204.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-272 classsize-full wp-image-272 alt4 February, 2014 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140204.jpg width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140204.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140204-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-272 classwp-caption-text>4 February, 2014/p>/div>div idattachment_273 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140221.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-273 classsize-full wp-image-273 alt21 February, 2014 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140221.jpg width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140221.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140221-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-273 classwp-caption-text>21 February, 2014/p>/div>div idattachment_274 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140226.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-274 classsize-full wp-image-274 alt26 Feburary, 2014 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140226.jpg width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140226.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140226-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-274 classwp-caption-text>26 Feburary, 2014/p>/div>div idattachment_275 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140228.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-275 classsize-full wp-image-275 alt28 February, 2014 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140228.jpg width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140228.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140228-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-275 classwp-caption-text>28 February, 2014/p>/div>div idattachment_263 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140311.jpg>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-263 classsize-full wp-image-263 alt11 March, 2014 srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140311.jpg width800 height600 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140311.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/20140311-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-263 classwp-caption-text>11 March, 2014/p>/div> /div>!-- .entry-content --> footer classentry-meta> span classcat-links> Posted in a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/category/picture-time/ relcategory tag>picture time/a> /span> span classsep> | /span> span classtags-links> Tagged a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/faux-gothic/ reltag>faux gothic/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/iterative-processes/ reltag>iterative processes/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/repeated-views/ reltag>repeated views/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/the-hudson-river/ reltag>the hudson river/a> /span> /footer>!-- .entry-meta -->/article>!-- #post-## --> article idpost-237 classpost-237 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-picture-time tag-art tag-baltimore tag-funny-animals tag-museums tag-times-when-a-faint-reflection-of-your-correspondent-is-visible-on-some-reflective-surface> header classentry-header> h1 classentry-title>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/2013/10/visiting-the-walters/ relbookmark>Visiting the Walters/a>/h1> div classentry-meta> Posted on a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/2013/10/visiting-the-walters/ title11:55 am relbookmark>time classentry-date datetime2013-10-15T11:55:27-04:00>October 15, 2013/time>/a>span classbyline> by span classauthor vcard>a classurl fn n hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/author/johnmurr/ titleView all posts by John relauthor>John/a>/span>/span> /div>!-- .entry-meta --> /header>!-- .entry-header --> div classentry-content> div idattachment_238 stylewidth: 810px classwp-caption alignleft>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-238 classsize-full wp-image-238 altDetail of "Noahs Family Assembling Animals before the Ark" with a faint reflection of your correspondent. srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/animals-reflections.jpg width800 height601 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/animals-reflections.jpg 800w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/animals-reflections-300x225.jpg 300w sizes(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px />p idcaption-attachment-238 classwp-caption-text>Detail of em>a titleHeres the full painting, on the Walters web site. hrefhttp://art.thewalters.org/detail/24343/noahs-family-assembling-animals-before-the-ark/>Noah’s Family Assembling Animals before the Ark/a>/em> with a faint reflection of your correspondent./p>/div>div idattachment_246 stylewidth: 809px classwp-caption alignleft>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-246 classsize-full wp-image-246 altThe cat getting teased in Jan van Bijlerts "Girl Teasing a Cat." srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/bothered-cat.jpg width799 height1067 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/bothered-cat.jpg 799w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/bothered-cat-224x300.jpg 224w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/bothered-cat-766x1024.jpg 766w sizes(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px />p idcaption-attachment-246 classwp-caption-text>The cat in question in Jan van Bijlert’s em>a titleHis other painting on their site also has a pretty funny animal in it. hrefhttp://art.thewalters.org/detail/38664/girl-teasing-a-cat/>Girl Teasing a Cat/a>/em>./p>/div>div idattachment_245 stylewidth: 811px classwp-caption alignleft>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-245 classsize-full wp-image-245 altIts always snake oclock somewhere. srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/snake-o-clock.jpg width801 height1067 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/snake-o-clock.jpg 801w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/snake-o-clock-225x300.jpg 225w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/snake-o-clock-768x1024.jpg 768w sizes(max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px />p idcaption-attachment-245 classwp-caption-text>It’s always snake o’clock somewhere./p>/div>p> /p> /div>!-- .entry-content --> footer classentry-meta> span classcat-links> Posted in a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/category/picture-time/ relcategory tag>picture time/a> /span> span classsep> | /span> span classtags-links> Tagged a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/art/ reltag>art/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/baltimore/ reltag>baltimore/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/funny-animals/ reltag>funny animals/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/museums/ reltag>museums/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/times-when-a-faint-reflection-of-your-correspondent-is-visible-on-some-reflective-surface/ reltag>times when a faint reflection of your correspondent is visible on some reflective surface/a> /span> /footer>!-- .entry-meta -->/article>!-- #post-## --> article idpost-233 classpost-233 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-bloglike category-games tag-emergence tag-fighting-games tag-the-future tag-things-that-would-have-been-a-mindblowing-sterling-story-in-1991> header classentry-header> h1 classentry-title>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/2013/09/futurity/ relbookmark>Futurity/a>/h1> div classentry-meta> Posted on a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/2013/09/futurity/ title12:37 am relbookmark>time classentry-date datetime2013-09-13T00:37:16-04:00>September 13, 2013/time>/a>span classbyline> by span classauthor vcard>a classurl fn n hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/author/johnmurr/ titleView all posts by John relauthor>John/a>/span>/span> /div>!-- .entry-meta --> /header>!-- .entry-header --> div classentry-content> p>Via a hrefhttp://infovore.org/>Infovore/a>, here is a titleI cant even come up with a decent alt text for this because it is too utterly crazy. hrefhttp://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-09-11-twitch-based-exploring-the-salty-bet-phenomenonagbOYPsWZnpY-8s3AYs1bsQ>a pretty sweet comprehensive introduction to the Salty Bet scene/a>, written up by Rich McCormick for Eurogamer. There are enough bizarre details that you should just read the article. But the gist, which is more than sufficiently outrageous, is that there is a site where you can bet (with pretend money) on streamed live AI-played sidescrolling fighting game matches, which are done in an open-source fighting game engine called Mugen, using characters from a fairly extensive collection of nerdly sources (existing fighting games, anime, whatever users suggest. From the article, here is a fan favorite, a titleye mighty and despair, everyone hrefhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?vUQK39dEtNbg&featureyoutu.be&t1m53s>in which Barney fights someone from Dragon Ball Z/a>)./p>p>I don’t think I would ever want to participate in something like this, but I’m extremely pleased to know that it exists. And think of all the pieces of popular culture and technology that have come together to make it a real extant thing./p> /div>!-- .entry-content --> footer classentry-meta> span classcat-links> Posted in a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/category/bloglike/ relcategory tag>bloglike/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/category/games/ relcategory tag>games/a> /span> span classsep> | /span> span classtags-links> Tagged a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/emergence/ reltag>emergence/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/fighting-games/ reltag>fighting games/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/the-future/ reltag>the future/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/things-that-would-have-been-a-mindblowing-sterling-story-in-1991/ reltag>things that would have been a mindblowing Sterling story in 1991/a> /span> /footer>!-- .entry-meta -->/article>!-- #post-## --> article idpost-228 classpost-228 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-bloglike tag-authenticity tag-bud-light-lime tag-corporate-histories tag-snobbery-and-reverse-snobbery tag-the-good-things-in-life> header classentry-header> h1 classentry-title>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/2013/09/intentionality-and-nice-things/ relbookmark>Intentionality and Nice Things/a>/h1> div classentry-meta> Posted on a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/2013/09/intentionality-and-nice-things/ title6:08 pm relbookmark>time classentry-date datetime2013-09-04T18:08:03-04:00>September 4, 2013/time>/a>span classbyline> by span classauthor vcard>a classurl fn n hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/author/johnmurr/ titleView all posts by John relauthor>John/a>/span>/span> /div>!-- .entry-meta --> /header>!-- .entry-header --> div classentry-content> p dirltr>I had been meaning for a while to say more about a titleI cant remember where I got this link. hrefhttp://lareviewofbooks.org/review/bud-light-lime-unlikely-hope/>Tom Dibblee’s LARB review of a history of Anheuser-Busch/a>, which is pretty sweet, and ends up functioning mostly as a meditation on the author’s personal relationship with Bud Light Lime and a summary of the parts of Anheuser-Busch’s corporate history most relevant to this personal relationship. I really admire the craft, and I am especially pleased that the first comment on the piece is some poor hipster oaf (apparently) earnestly trying to convince the author that he should, if he likes BLL so much, consider trying an objectively better craft beer in the same style. This is classic lifemanship, but the commenter is apparently insufficiently on top of things to understand that the old “heartfelt recommendation of better craft beers” gambit, while possibly useful in some circumstances, is an automatic fail when used in response to a long essay about the authentic love one feels for deeply inauthentic engineered products./p>p>When I was chatting about the essay with a friend, he mentioned that he had recently been at what sounded like a deeply authentically crafty party, at which, at one point, the conversation had revolved around the way that most of the participants had totally gorged on Fruit Loops when they arrived at college and first had the agency to totally gorge themselves on Fruit Loops. The friend suggested that the lesson here has to do with “the real pleasure created by foods that have been carefully designed by deep-pocketed corporations to give real pleasure.” He gave Doritos and McGriddles as other examples of this working in practice./p>p>I don’t know about this, because to me that stuff is obvious poison, and I can’t get into it. There was a hrefhttp://kottke.org/13/01/lets-build-a-massive-meta-mcdonalds-in-times-square>a thing on Kottke/a> a while ago (incidentally more or less contemporaneous with the LARB piece) that touched incidentally on the similarity between “McDonald’s super-processed food and molecular gastronomy,” (actual phrase from a a hrefhttp://www.theawl.com/2013/01/giant-mcdonalds-times-square>piece in The Awl/a> that Kottke was linking to) trying to use the comparison to elevate fast food, but to me this comparison mostly works to demonstrate the inherent vapidity of molecular gastronomy. Nevertheless, I don’t think that authenticity in itself (or “soul” as Dibblee has it) is a very useful marker. We like a decently-raised pig from up the hill because it tastes better and isn’t bringing a lot of hideous unpriced externalities with it, not because it is ye olde pigge in the classic style. I am as nonplussed as anyone by long menu notes about sourcing, but a lot of the things you get at those restaurants are pretty nice. And I like a good straightforwardly hopped up beer like Two-Hearted Ale because that is the kind of beer I like./p>p>I do, though, think that there is a significant difference between trying to be good and trying to be liked, and that this difference, when you can pin it down, is pretty useful. This is not to say that I would encourage excessive sincerity or whatever, but I think there might be something here to help sort out what is and is not worthwhile. Anyway, I strongly recommend reading a hrefhttp://lareviewofbooks.org/review/bud-light-lime-unlikely-hope/>that essay/a>./p> /div>!-- .entry-content --> footer classentry-meta> span classcat-links> Posted in a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/category/bloglike/ relcategory tag>bloglike/a> /span> span classsep> | /span> span classtags-links> Tagged a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/authenticity/ reltag>authenticity/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/bud-light-lime/ reltag>Bud Light Lime/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/corporate-histories/ reltag>corporate histories/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/snobbery-and-reverse-snobbery/ reltag>snobbery and reverse snobbery/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/the-good-things-in-life/ reltag>the good things in life/a> /span> /footer>!-- .entry-meta -->/article>!-- #post-## --> article idpost-209 classpost-209 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-picture-time tag-ios tag-maps tag-screenshots tag-sort-of-new-aesthetic> header classentry-header> h1 classentry-title>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/2013/08/two-partially-downloaded-maps/ relbookmark>Two Partially-downloaded Maps/a>/h1> div classentry-meta> Posted on a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/2013/08/two-partially-downloaded-maps/ title8:20 pm relbookmark>time classentry-date datetime2013-08-21T20:20:53-04:00>August 21, 2013/time>/a>span classbyline> by span classauthor vcard>a classurl fn n hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/author/johnmurr/ titleView all posts by John relauthor>John/a>/span>/span> /div>!-- .entry-meta --> /header>!-- .entry-header --> div classentry-content> div idattachment_210 stylewidth: 650px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/mimap.png>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-210 classsize-full wp-image-210 altDetail of the route from Goshen to Three Rivers. srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/mimap.png width640 height960 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/mimap.png 640w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/mimap-200x300.png 200w sizes(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-210 classwp-caption-text>Detail of the route from Goshen to Three Rivers./p>/div>div idattachment_211 stylewidth: 650px classwp-caption alignleft>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/campmap.png>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-211 classsize-full wp-image-211 altRollins Pond in the Adirondacks. The shoreline was in real life somewhat more clearly defined. srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/campmap.png width640 height960 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/campmap.png 640w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/campmap-200x300.png 200w sizes(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px />/a>p idcaption-attachment-211 classwp-caption-text>Our campsite at Rollins Pond in the Adirondacks. The shoreline was in real life somewhat more clearly defined./p>/div> /div>!-- .entry-content --> footer classentry-meta> span classcat-links> Posted in a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/category/picture-time/ relcategory tag>picture time/a> /span> span classsep> | /span> span classtags-links> Tagged a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/ios/ reltag>iOS/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/maps/ reltag>maps/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/screenshots/ reltag>screenshots/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/sort-of-new-aesthetic/ reltag>sort of new aesthetic/a> /span> /footer>!-- .entry-meta -->/article>!-- #post-## --> article idpost-203 classpost-203 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-picture-time tag-greens tag-relatives-gardens tag-semi-edible-landscapes> header classentry-header> h1 classentry-title>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/2013/08/decent-vegetation/ relbookmark>Decent Vegetation/a>/h1> div classentry-meta> Posted on a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/2013/08/decent-vegetation/ title5:32 pm relbookmark>time classentry-date datetime2013-08-15T17:32:55-04:00>August 15, 2013/time>/a>span classbyline> by span classauthor vcard>a classurl fn n hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/author/johnmurr/ titleView all posts by John relauthor>John/a>/span>/span> /div>!-- .entry-meta --> /header>!-- .entry-header --> div classentry-content> div idattachment_204 stylewidth: 610px classwp-caption alignleft>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-204 classsize-full wp-image-204 altRows of lettuce growing on my aunt and uncles farm in southern Michigan. The hoop house just visible on the left has some really great sungolds in it. srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/lettuce.jpg width600 height800 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/lettuce.jpg 600w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/lettuce-225x300.jpg 225w sizes(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px />p idcaption-attachment-204 classwp-caption-text>Rows of lettuce growing on my aunt and uncle’s farm in southern Michigan. The hoop house just visible on the right has some really great sungolds in it./p>/div> /div>!-- .entry-content --> footer classentry-meta> span classcat-links> Posted in a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/category/picture-time/ relcategory tag>picture time/a> /span> span classsep> | /span> span classtags-links> Tagged a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/greens/ reltag>greens/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/relatives-gardens/ reltag>relatives gardens/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/semi-edible-landscapes/ reltag>semi-edible landscapes/a> /span> /footer>!-- .entry-meta -->/article>!-- #post-## --> article idpost-185 classpost-185 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-bloglike category-games tag-compositional-elements tag-dwarf-fortress tag-emergence tag-game-criticism tag-pieces-that-link-extensively-to-rps tag-possibly-too-unprofessional-for-this-venue tag-sims tag-unfinished> header classentry-header> h1 classentry-title>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/2013/07/an-unfinished-note-about-making-games/ relbookmark>An Unfinished Note about Making Games/a>/h1> div classentry-meta> Posted on a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/2013/07/an-unfinished-note-about-making-games/ title12:50 pm relbookmark>time classentry-date datetime2013-07-10T12:50:03-04:00>July 10, 2013/time>/a>span classbyline> by span classauthor vcard>a classurl fn n hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/author/johnmurr/ titleView all posts by John relauthor>John/a>/span>/span> /div>!-- .entry-meta --> /header>!-- .entry-header --> div classentry-content> p>I have been thinking a bit about what would make a good iPhone game, a big catalyst for this being the times I have been traveling recently, during which I would have liked to have a good iPhone game on which to pass the time. I think a key element would be some sort of persistent and semi-emergent (which is to say not all that scripted) setting or characters, in the mode of something between the Sims and SimCity. So Dwarf Fortress for iPhone, basically, but with an interface that leaves it legible. It would be nice if it also generated something interesting and relatively unique, so that the game also ended up being a kind of composition tool (Dwarf Fortress, Minecraft, and a lot of the Maxis games kind of do this already, and there is probably more to be said elsewhere about “the saved game as a document and the document as a saved game” or something like that)./p>p>SORT OF IN THE VEIN OF THE PREVIOUS FRAGMENT:br />There was a pretty great a hrefhttp://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/06/11/maybe-games-just-arent-for-telling-great-stories/>piece in Rock, Paper, Shotgun about the general badness of story in games/a>, followed by a a hrefhttp://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/06/12/games-are-the-ideal-place-for-telling-great-stories/>somewhat less convincing counterpoint/a> (by the same author, who was using them to set up for a a hrefhttp://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/06/23/obsidian-bohemia-tornquist-splash-damage-on-story/>panel discussion he was going to have on the topic/a>, although the discussion didn’t really adhere to the parameters he’d set out in the two pieces) that brought me back to some general questions about narrative in games and what games are good for./p>p>I would claim that there are at least two big categories of narrative in games, which are the narrative laid out explicitly in a game’s fiction, to be followed as you would follow the plot in any of the traditional storytelling media, and then the narrative that gets generated in an individual player’s experience. Explicit narratives are almost always really cheesey and unhelpfully genre, although you will in the course of your life run into that dude who cried at the twist in whichever Final Fantasy it was. But they will still, executed properly, sometimes be pretty ok, and often serve as decent frameworks for hanging fun game elements on. Generated narratives are the part I find really rad, because they will so often feel more real and more funny (it is the difference between “we had been asked by the king to solve the problem of the ancient evil again” and “before the necromancer could finish his first menacing sentence we kicked him into the lava pit because Catbite the Monk had specialized in Necromancer Kicking”). There will often end up being a pretty funny disjunction between these two narrative categories./p>p>The big newer games have kind of worked toward a place where explicit narrative is privileged, and seem to be aspiring, in many cases, to be more like bad action movies, with a lot of very deliberate spectacle that only ever plays out as specified by the scriptwriter (this is a tendency that is taken apart really well in the anti-story RPS article linked above). I would categorize this move as unequivocally bad. I am also against conscious level design, which is sort of in the same vein as overscripting, insofar as it works to create the illusions of choice and the possibility of failure while pushing players into situations that are actually kind of linear, obvious, and hard to ultimately fail./p>p>I should probably finish this later./p>p>POINTS I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO CARRY ON WITH:br />-the decent random games, lessons we might learn from them.br />-the utility of games as pedagogy, looking particularly at the frog spawning interactive we did for Discovery Place and the Oregon Trail meets Ticket to Ride mail delivery game we did for NPM./p> /div>!-- .entry-content --> footer classentry-meta> span classcat-links> Posted in a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/category/bloglike/ relcategory tag>bloglike/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/category/games/ relcategory tag>games/a> /span> span classsep> | /span> span classtags-links> Tagged a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/compositional-elements/ reltag>compositional elements/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/dwarf-fortress/ reltag>dwarf fortress/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/emergence/ reltag>emergence/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/game-criticism/ reltag>game criticism/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/pieces-that-link-extensively-to-rps/ reltag>pieces that link extensively to RPS/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/possibly-too-unprofessional-for-this-venue/ reltag>possibly too unprofessional for this venue/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/sims/ reltag>sims/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/unfinished/ reltag>unfinished/a> /span> /footer>!-- .entry-meta -->/article>!-- #post-## --> article idpost-172 classpost-172 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-picture-time tag-fog tag-robert-moses tag-rust-on-large-public-works tag-stay-alert tag-times-when-a-faint-reflection-of-our-ez-pass-is-visible-on-the-windshield> header classentry-header> h1 classentry-title>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/2013/06/fog/ relbookmark>There Was a Bit of Fog on the Verrazano the Other Day/a>/h1> div classentry-meta> Posted on a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/2013/06/fog/ title3:10 pm relbookmark>time classentry-date datetime2013-06-16T15:10:23-04:00>June 16, 2013/time>/a>span classbyline> by span classauthor vcard>a classurl fn n hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/author/johnmurr/ titleView all posts by John relauthor>John/a>/span>/span> /div>!-- .entry-meta --> /header>!-- .entry-header --> div classentry-content> div idattachment_171 stylewidth: 778px classwp-caption alignleft>img loadinglazy decodingasync aria-describedbycaption-attachment-171 classsize-full wp-image-171 altA pretty big bridge. srchttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/fog.jpg width768 height1024 srcsethttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/fog.jpg 768w, http://johnmurrayleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/fog-225x300.jpg 225w sizes(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px />p idcaption-attachment-171 classwp-caption-text>A pretty big bridge./p>/div> /div>!-- .entry-content --> footer classentry-meta> span classcat-links> Posted in a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/category/picture-time/ relcategory tag>picture time/a> /span> span classsep> | /span> span classtags-links> Tagged a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/fog/ reltag>fog/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/robert-moses/ reltag>Robert Moses/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/rust-on-large-public-works/ reltag>rust on large public works/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/stay-alert/ reltag>stay alert/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/times-when-a-faint-reflection-of-our-ez-pass-is-visible-on-the-windshield/ reltag>times when a faint reflection of our EZ pass is visible on the windshield/a> /span> /footer>!-- .entry-meta -->/article>!-- #post-## --> article idpost-13 classpost-13 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-bloglike tag-automation tag-humanism tag-issues-of-our-day tag-timothy-burke> header classentry-header> h1 classentry-title>a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/2013/05/machines/ relbookmark>Machines for/a>/h1> div classentry-meta> Posted on a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/2013/05/machines/ title6:26 am relbookmark>time classentry-date datetime2013-05-05T06:26:03-04:00>May 5, 2013/time>/a>span classbyline> by span classauthor vcard>a classurl fn n hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/author/johnmurr/ titleView all posts by John relauthor>John/a>/span>/span> /div>!-- .entry-meta --> /header>!-- .entry-header --> div classentry-content> p>Here are a couple of posts that I think go together pretty well:br />a hrefhttp://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2013/05/03/the-humane-digital/>Timothy Burke on not forgetting to be humane about things/a> – if only there were some way to automate this and save ourselves the constant work of being alive./p>p>a hrefhttp://www.harrowell.org.uk/blog/2013/05/05/a-short-homage-to-the-thinkpad-keyboard/>Alex Harrowell on machine interfaces making things easier but in some cases not actually making them easier/a> – I strongly recommend watching the embedded video, which is a lecture on autopilots and safety./p> /div>!-- .entry-content --> footer classentry-meta> span classcat-links> Posted in a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/category/bloglike/ relcategory tag>bloglike/a> /span> span classsep> | /span> span classtags-links> Tagged a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/automation/ reltag>automation/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/humanism/ reltag>humanism/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/issues-of-our-day/ reltag>issues of our day/a>, a hrefhttp://johnmurrayleigh.com/tag/timothy-burke/ reltag>Timothy Burke/a> /span> /footer>!-- .entry-meta -->/article>!-- #post-## --> nav rolenavigation idnav-below classnavigation-paging> h1 classscreen-reader-text>Post navigation/h1> div 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