Maxwell Neely-Cohen

wowww the type design from the UK edition

The video of the most recent piece I worked on at the Choreographic Institute at New York City Ballet is live! It's a really good one, "Passersby" choreographed by the incredible Chalvar Monteiro. A trio with no entrances, no exits, and no touching vimeo.com/1229205455?a...

Lincoln is broadly correct here (as per usual). One note of optimism for reading I rarely see referenced is just how healthy Project Gutenberg is. These are serious numbers for Austen, Melville, Shelley, Eliot, Shakespeare. Six figures a month! Millions of people reading these free copies a year!

it's genuinely so fucking funny that The Atlantic has no intellectual standards for its staff writers whatsoever

The age of romanticism is funny because like half the literature is just about embarrassing rich dudes failing at life to an almost incel level. Yet the music all bangs incredibly hard and is either about killing artistocrats, building empires, or being disappointed in Napoleon

Showed up to a doctor’s appointment yesterday only to find the office had been suddenly closed and the entire staff laid off with no warning or communication to patients. A private equity firm had bought the practice 72 hours before

september issue is out

why yes 10kdrummachines.com is still ongoing

the great threat to wikipedia is not culture war bullshit or LLMs, it's media being so destroyed and fragmented, and publishing and academia so dysfunctional, that subjects that would have previously cleared notability easily now won't have enough sources to even exist

websites should look like this

When I finally get back to Ithaca

still got it 10kdrummachines.com

never forget the actual entire purpose of a "new tab" is to paste a bit of text so then later you can copy and paste it somewhere else without formatting (to paraphrase @everest.bsky.social)

For Urban Omnibus, I interviewed the great Rennie McDougall about his amazing new book Nonstop Bodies: How Dance Made New York City urbanomnibus.net/2026/04/danc...

Paul Cadmus initial sketches for Ballet Alphabet (1939)

making a little Conway's Game of Life for the terminal, adapting some 1990s bootleg BBS turbo pascal code

My piece with The HTML Review just came out, on a digital and physical walk I'm planning across the Korean Peninsula. It is about a personal project a few years in the making. Thank you to Max & Shelby for being wonderful, patient editors: thehtml.review/05/tell-umma...

Always funny watching the internet bros think Nietzsche wanted young men to be ruthless, rules-exempt individualists who dominate others, when he actually just wanted them to be dancers

created photos.connie.surf as part of the html review this year!!! so honored :^)

Issue Five of The HTML Review is here! Get to your browser for 15 excellent new pieces of web-based literature and art thehtml.review/05/

one of the great pleasures of using discogs to catalog records is the stunning regularity with which you acquire something that is not already part of the database. Tens of millions of releases cataloged, and still human musical production is so great that there are constant gaps

DOOM fully rendered in CSS. Every surface is a <div> that has a background image, with a clipping path with 3D transforms applied. Of course CSS does not have a movable camera, so we rotate and translate the scene around the user.

Issue Five of The HTML Review is here! Get to your browser for 15 excellent new pieces of web-based literature and art thehtml.review/05/

Today marks FIVE YEARS since I started this spreadsheet cataloging the songs stuck in my head when I wake up in the morning. It's the closest thing to a journal I've ever had - docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

New Session Issue 4: Upheaval now live on telnet: issue4.anewsession.com featuring work by: @asterolsen.bsky.social @mbbischoff.com @ultraviolet.gay @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social ...and more! web release coming on Saturday so STAY TUNED!

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

tonight's deep rabbit hole obsession with a genius artist who had a truncated and underappreciated career is costume designer Mary Ann Nyberg, who only did five films, but absolutely crushed them all

"SHOSTAKOVICH'S 5TH PLAYED BACKWARDS IN A CONCRETE SILO" by Sheet Noise is the best album TITLE of the year

Scully: Four helicopters and a string quartet? Mulder, what are you Mulder: *throws file at her* In 1971, composer Karlheinz Stockhausen reported having dreams where he learned he was from the Sirius system,

I tried to "further the spread" of the World Wide Web as outlined in the original 1992 whitepaper. Outraged it doesn't still work come on

the latest 10k drum machines (by @maxy.bsky.social & friends) are so beautiful kubb.mingus.space 10kdrummachines.com/machines/wor... bmo-mpc.vercel.app they're all so gorgeous, so inventive..!! I wish/dream/would die for a 10kdrumhackthon and yes AM STILL procrastinating on making one.........x

The 7 Habits of People Who Read Books About Habits

where's the HIIT class that blasts Mozart's Requiem

2025 and still no Aphex Twin ballet

Along with 14 other scholars, archivists, designers, business leaders, and engineers I shared my thoughts on DEEP TIME DATA ARCHIVES for the @harvardlil.bsky.social Generational Data project with @maxy.bsky.social and Clare Stanton. What data, if any, should be stored for a century? Who decides? 💎

LIL fellow @maxy.bsky.social asked 14 scholars, archivists, designers, business leaders & engineers: "If you were given unlimited funding to design a system for storing and preserving digital information for at least a century, what would you do?" Their answers: lil.law.harvard.edu/generational...

I made a little toy for exploring and mixing mathematically possible backbeat rhythms! In a 2-beat 16th-note grid with kick/snare/hat, there are 1,458 combinations. And in combination, there are 2,125,764 ways to fill in a 4/4. Enjoy playing ALL of them here: salexanderreed.com/backbeats

Retrospectively I can see that *Season 6 of Grey’s Anatomy* and *M*A*S*H* were both early expressions of a homegrown form of Australophobia that was beginning to shape and color Dwarven life...

I am grateful to @maxy.bsky.social for including my vintage web based drum machine from 2012 in #10kdrummachines 10kdrummachines.com/machines/sdm...

Just saw an *Iron Maiden boyfriend / Oasis girlfriend* walking hand in hand with their respective band t-shirts and dispositions it was beautiful