Planet of weeds St James Park under the nose of our supposed good and great where endless persons of all types coo and smile and gasp over the weedy animals. My mother tries to encourage me that this potentially leads to a love of all animals. I’m not so sure. I can imagine a world where all that... More
The man who lived in a grid He was always uncomfortable in someone else’s landscape… I created mess around myself, the kind of chaos that would be very dangerous in an operating theatre but which is synonymous with artists’ studios, and in that mess I edited the accidents. There is no Such Thing as Invention As though pulling his head down into... More
Normalisation How do we care through the prism of the constant (rampant) normalisation of things? We have normalised being outraged. We have normalised the expectation of everyone’s consultancy. Being outraged is part of a normalisation programme of weekly participation. It is controlled and relatively clean and is most often kept to activity channeled through technology where... More
Amberley Telephone Exchange Where infrastructure meets the everyday mundane outside world. Where the infrastructure hits the poorly connected, the outer reaches of the network. Where the network connects for all to see. The shabby exchanges, leaning and broken green boxes, overheating fans, inactive. Stillness. No visitors. To capture the essence of place, weather and time. Not just remote... More
Watching frantically I had already started looking at pictures of Jobs presenting the first iPhone Reality Distortion Field through the prism of a Jean Cocteau walk in mirror in the back of a dark sad cupboard when I watched the all new bloated Reality Consumption Field. There’s something about the clapping. There’s something about the exit stage... More
Running/coding All arguments and discussions are old and it’s just fine if they remain that way. Old things can just keep on going. It’s never too late or too early to table them again. If it works for you, keep saying it. If it helps, keep telling it (it might even help someone else). Anyway, I... More
Start up education (or education as start up) Below is something I wrote for the Do Lectures blog last year. Since then they’ve overhauled it and the post seems not to have made the cut. So I’m going to republish here with a few extra notes and updates from the last year. Since I started writing below, the one thing that has appealed... More
Success We all do things. Different things. And we all think about them differently. To some of us they are work, to some of us they are play. Some of us do great things, some of us do less than great things and some of us do crap things (and we usually know it). Some of... More
The Zone I have just read Zona by Geoff Dyer. When I first saw Tarkovsky’s Stalker I realised it was the film I had spent my whole life waiting to see. There were scenes and images in it that I’d been longing to see on the screen. They immediately connected to experiences that I was unaware needed... More
Do you want to be remembered for doing something you hate? Don’t trade cheap mentions of efforts and invention that you don’t really mean and barely understand. Don’t bullshit yourself. Kill the acronyms. Kill the labels. Keep your loose mouth and stumbling design walk in check. Try harder, think harder, hope harder, type harder. Pitching and pinching and pouting the same thing over and over. To... More