Over the last month or two, I’ve taken part in Doug Belshaw’s book group. The book-in-question being Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism. As an experiment, I shared my reflections as quick sketches, created whilst listening to the audiobook version.
Here’s one of those sketches re-created as a colour artwork using Procreate on the IPad Pro.
Do you remix?
If so, how do you remix? What is your remix trigger? Is it curiosity or simply joining the dots as you see them? Do you like to layer-up? Or strive to simplify? Is it a tickly thought? Or a random one from left field?
I’d like to know, because I think we’re all different. This is part of what I’m exploring with the gradual launch of The Remixer Machine.
This is what happens when a thought tickles my brain. TO THE REMIXER MACHINE!
As the Voronoi remixer exports in SVG, a vector format, it can then be extruded using Illustrator…
Well now, it all started with this Twitter conversation.
There’s something about creating a sticker that forces you to boil down what it is you’re saying, as well as picturing it on someone else’s laptop hood.
But this sticker is REMIXABLE, courtesy of the fabulous Remixer Machine. So blogger, go make your monster…
I had this moment of clarity whilst out running this morning, and I think Paul (the guy that wrote a bunch of letters in the Christian bible) would back me up on this one. Maybe Marie Kondo would too…
“We’re too young to have a vote, so the government doesn’t care about us. We’re too young to buy loads of stuff, so the companies don’t care about us. But we’re the ones that are going to have to deal with Climate Change.”
To all those who struck school to protest the lack of action on Climate Change, I salute you.
Boris Johnson: ‘People around the world are going ‘wow – they’ve made this incredible decision to go global”.
John Simpson: ‘This is certainly not my experience. From US to China to India to South Africa, people I’m hearing from think we’re opting for imperial nostalgia.’
I belong to a community church – and last weekend we gathered up our families and spent a retreat in a woodland adventure centre outside London.
There was fresh hope, so I took some.
It tasted good.
Emojis can articulate anything.
This is the cycle that got me hooked on running, thanks to my son and of course Parkrun (the weekly timed, volunteer-driven 5km run/jog/walk.)
Taken from this edition of the Visual Thinkery newsletter.
Nothing’s ever fair, is it?
If you’d like to wilfully lose 13 minutes of your busy life, you could watch this video on what makes a fair dice. What are the chances that you make it all the way to the end? Less than 1 in 6, I’d say…
When I was growing up, eggs were good for you. Then they weren’t. Then they were good again. Then just the egg white was good. Binaries are so often unhelpful – especially when they are just a shortcut for not having to use your own brain.
This is also the case in environmental activism, as we discussed in a Mozfest session lead by Laura Hilliger and her colleagues from Greenpeace…
Business behaviour around use and exploitation of people’s data, is dictated by the local privacy law (or lack thereof). Julie Owono was speaking at Mozfest on research into sub-saharan subsidiaries of European telecoms companies. It’s no surprise really – capitalism is about capital, so everything is a possible resource waiting to be exploited.