crimewatch (13. 150)

Via Curios, we are referred to this fun little character creation game that draws of the assets of the 1983 Smith & Wesson (American gun-makers so make that what you will for their role in the field of forensics) Identi-Kit Model II used by law enforcement authorities since the late 1950s (the UK version, Photofit, was introduced in 1970) to make facial composites of suspects and perpetrators in attempts to reconstruct their appearance and identity them based on eye-witness accounts. This feature-based selection system, foregoing the talent of a professional sketch artist in consultation with victims and by-standers, became standard issue in many precincts and has a certain, sinister aesthetic if one is so inclined to build an mugshot quality avatar (without involving the machine and one’s own likeness and being an agent of chaos and confounding the AIs) in the style of DB Cooper, the Unabomber or other most-wanted individuals.

synchronoptica

one year ago: a gift from Netanyahu for Trump (with synchronopticæ), a calming reflecting pool plus a banger by Shocking Blue

twelve years ago: trilateral tensions with the US, the EU and Ukraine 

fourteen years ago: scribes and penmanship plus diminishing returns

fifteen years ago: Mubarak flees to Germany