Dan Visel
@withhiddennoise.net
I make books at Circumference Books, and I work at the Internet Archive.
There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.
Fantastic deep dive on Arabic typography and technology: lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/
An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt | La Vita Nouva
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A quick note on the design of the Italian edition of @joriegraham.bsky.social 's TO 2040: circumferencebooks.com/thought/side...
On two editions of Arundhati Roy’s latest book: one made in India, one made in the UK robinkinross.substack.com/p/arundhati-...
Arundhati Roy’s new book in two editions
Penguin Random House India and Penguin Random House UK
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It turns out that the Italian version of Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" is about Peter Pan: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsjS...
I giardini di Kensington
YouTube video by Patty Pravo - Topic
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Nice to see Dan Beachy-Quick reviewing the Vidyā translation we published (along with new translations of Follain and Milo de Angelis): lareviewofbooks.org/article/poet...
Mortal Urges | Los Angeles Review of Books
Three recent translations of Milo De Angelis, Jean Follain, and Vidyā will fill their reader with welcome weirdness.
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Just walked by a temple with one of these babies banging away and I gotta say I woud welcome a religious movement based around the development of more/weirder/wackier versions of such machines for worship youtu.be/gujclncwrVA?...
Star Malathalam V 2.0 | 10" HD Automatic Electric Temple Drum Bell | Arthi Nagada | Latest Model
YouTube video by Electric Temple Bell Drum - Star Melathalam
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Nice to see a Circumference book (available here: circumferencebooks.com/book/evoluti... ) in the NY Public Library's list of Best New Poetry Books: www.nypl.org/books-more/r...
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I wrote a thing about accessibility in book design, the first part of which is up at the Circumference substack: circbooks.substack.com/p/part-1-thi...
Part 1: Thinking through designing accessible multilingual translations
From Circumference designer, programmer, and co-founder Dan Visel
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Hugh Kenner to Guy Davenport, 2 November 1968, thinking about generative art:
Have the NYTimes given in to the British on "aluminum"? Or do they no longer have copyeditors? I'm seeing "aluminium" in the headline, while "aluminum" is in the body. (The URL coyly avoids the word: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/b... )
Ezra Pound's daughter is still alive and getting prizes: www.adnkronos.com/cultura/a-ma...
A Mary de Rachewiltz, figlia di Ezra Pound, il Premio Dante Alighieri
Alla cerimonia di premiazione della XXXIX edizione del Premio Laurentum, in corso nella Sala della Lupa della Camera dei Deputati, in Palazzo Montecitorio
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Oh wow, Amalie Rothschild's documentary WOO WHO? MAY WILSON is evidently on Kanopy and Ovid.tv in the US! www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Two New Movies Revivify the Portrait-Film Genre
Documentaries about individuals are ubiquitous, but “Suburban Fury” and “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk” explore the filmmaker-subject relationship in ways that recall classics of the form.
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An ancient (!) interview with Helen DeWitt that I did after YOUR NAME HERE was published online: futureofthebook.org/blog/2008/12...
an interview with helen dewitt | if:book
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
Two fantastic archives from MART in Rovereto: first, an enormous collection of documents of twentieth-century Italian art: archive.org/details/mart... ; and second, a collection of radical zines, mostly Italian: archive.org/details/radi...
Read a @circumferencebooks.com poetry collection (translated by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra) this #NationalTranslationMonth! In TREASURER OF PIGGY BANKS, Vinod Kumar Shukla “illuminates what is hardest to comprehend with aphoristic yet surreal clarity.” circumferencebooks.com/book/treasur...
Circumference Books: Treasurer of Piggy Banks
Infiltrator or inhabitant? In Treasurer of Piggy Banks, Indian poet Vinod Kumar Shukla sees the world through both lenses at once. All details are local yet canonical, and when inside his lyric mind,…
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Found all three of my editions of Chris Marker’s IMMEMORY during unpacking:
Onehundredandeightythousandfourhundredandone men live in Iceland and she’s in love with all of them ∾ Two poems by Brynja Hjálmsdóttir, translated from Icelandic by Rachel Britton ∾ circumferencemag.com/she-blinks-q...
she blinks quick quick quickly
Two poems by Brynja Hjálmsdóttir, translated from Icelandic by Rachel Britton.
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The winner of the 2025 #FirecrackerAward in Magazines/General Excellence is @circumferencemag.bsky.social! circumferencemag.com
Oh, New York people, I'll be around next week! And this weekend. Let me know if you want to meet up.
“In his 1865 book Die Urwelt der Schweiz, Oswald Heer notes that Amanz Gressly, who had been admitted to an asylum in the final years of his life, had become tormented by hallucinations that he had transformed into the Gresslyosaurus, his namesake dinosaur” ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gressly... )
Suddenly a lot of Italians have to figure out how to say “Chicago” with a straight face.