Agatha Yu GIFs June 1, 2022 blog Agatha Yu is a designer and human computer interaction specialist who works at Apple. She says that she “focuses on amplifying human senses.” She one of a crowd May 18, 2022 blog I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence, Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt, Force Majeure May 6, 2022 blog Last year I had the pleasure of working with the animator Magali Charrier on a short film called Force Majeure. It is built around a script that quality and quantity March 21, 2022 blog I repost a lot of material from kottke.org, as if Jason Kottke is some kind of personal (well, not really personal) internet filter. In his December accents and bravery March 15, 2022 blog Do you know what a foreign accent is? It’s a sign of bravery. – Amy Chua I really like this idea, and the quote itself is all over the internet. Force Majeure February 28, 2022 practice A film by Magali Charrier and Simon Ellis Voiceover: Joanne “Bob” Whalley Force Majeure is both documentary and animation. It draws on a series of suzannah February 24, 2022 blog In 2002 and 2003 I had the tremendous pleasure of working and dancing with Suzannah Edwards. I learned today that she died on 14 February 2022. She Dancing their unhappy freedoms February 10, 2022 practice A text written in collaboration with Paul Paschal that draws attention to the paradoxes and contradictions in the thinking-working-desiring-body of uniqueness and sonder January 23, 2022 blog When you start appreciating someone’s uniqueness instead of just seeing them as a label like ‘religious fundamentalist’ or ‘single mother’, you are the body in time January 20, 2022 practice A computer desktop performance that explores the question: Where so many body-based practices are predicated on nuanced encounters with being would have been January 16, 2022 blog My mother Gabrielle Eastwood-Ellis would have been 85 today. Here she is in 1960 on her honeymoon. She was 23 at the time frame.2 - connecting, moving & making online January 14, 2022 blog I’m involved in this terrific series of workshops called Frame, curated and led by Kyra Norman and Claire Loussouarn, and hosted by Independent the arrow January 9, 2022 blog I’ve just finished reading Roman Krznaric’s utterly inspiring book The Good Ancestor. It’s a book about deep time and long-term thinking. Here’s one emerging experience January 4, 2022 blog There is something compelling about the constancy of Antonio Damasio’s focus on the nature of consciousness. With each new publication, there’s a Editorial: Shifting Dependence December 1, 2021 practice An editorial for Choreographic Practices by Lee Miller and Simon Ellis. Reference: Ellis, Simon and Lee Miller 2021. “Editorial: Shifting gabrielle November 4, 2021 blog Gabrielle Anne Eastwood Ellis 16 January 1937 - 4 November 2021 stand by me October 28, 2021 blog cookie monster October 8, 2021 blog You know those cookie consent dialog boxes that now pop up on every website you visit since GDPR entered our world in 2018? This week Nieman Lab’s now: 4 October 2021 October 4, 2021 blog Going on for me right now: Reading: Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn, The Extended Mind by Annie Murphy Paul, Rationality by Steven Cellule d’Essai 2021: A biography of sorts September 13, 2021 practice In August 2021 I was invited by Cellule d’Essai to be part of a few days of open research into choreography and dance in Lyon, France. What follows Next page