120fps
March 14, 2021
blog
I started some simple experiments last week throwing and catching a camera. Here’s an animated gif of one catch that has been stripped from video
le mani
March 12, 2021
blog
Molto tempo fa abbiamo cominciato a pensare usando le mani, non il contrario. – Gary Rogowski, Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
lil making postcards
March 6, 2021
practice
A video document of Lil Boyce making Postcards from Before Supported by C-DaRE — the Centre for Dance Research — at Coventry University
before they love
March 1, 2021
blog
I don’t remember where I took this photo, and nor do I know what it means, but I sure do like it
sneaky aspects of group deliberation
February 26, 2021
blog
Here’s Ian David Moss talking about how good groups are at making decisions: one of the sneaky aspects of group deliberation is that it reliably
informational heartbeats
February 23, 2021
blog
I like Rebecca Toh’s blog a lot. She’s a photographer, and her site is full of wisdom, care and beauty. In her post informational heartbeats she
what gordon parks saw
February 21, 2021
blog
This is a short video by Evan Puschak (The Nerdwriter) about the photographs of Gordon Parks. Where I saw it:
Editorial
February 19, 2021
practice
An editorial for Choreographic Practices by Lee Miller and Simon Ellis that thinks through tribalism, us and them, and sympoiesis. Reference: Ellis,
rhoneisms
February 16, 2021
blog
Patrick Rhone’s blog Rhoneisms is one of my favourite sites to follow. The posts are variously playful, serious, moving and everyday. I’ve reblogged
ideology
February 14, 2021
blog
This quote is from the Czech dissident (and former president) Václav Havel’s famous 1979 essay The Power of the Powerless: Ideology is a specious
mean world syndrome
February 12, 2021
blog
Rutger C. Bregmans’s book Humankind: A Hopeful History (2020) is fascinating and moving. Here he is discussing our capacity to manage and copy with
dream baby dream and joy
February 9, 2021
blog
It’s pretty obvious I like Bruce Springsteen. Here are previous posts of mine where he’s talking audiences, audiences and common experiences, the
xkcd hug count
February 7, 2021
blog
The amazing XKCD: I’m getting and giving plenty of hugs at home but wow do I miss hugging other people. 2007 was clearly an awesome year. Original
the families
February 3, 2021
blog
There’s a been a blast of these lately around where I live: I wonder if it feels like a hoax for the families of the 100k dead from the virus here
if then else
January 30, 2021
blog
the mission of nearly every corporation. Collect data. Write code: if/then/else. Detect patterns. Predict behaviour. Direct action. Encourage
nobody
January 28, 2021
blog
Nobody is setting up a programme in unemployed studies, homeless studies, or trailer park studies because the unemployed, the homeless, and the
the competency model
January 22, 2021
blog
From Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall’s Nine Lies About Work, and regarding the measurement of performance at work: the competency model is the
the art of reading
January 19, 2021
blog
The art of reading, in short, includes all of the same skills that are involved in the art of unaided discovery: keenness of observation, readily
question your teaspoons
December 28, 2020
blog
Georges Perec on questioning the habitual: Make an inventory of your pockets, of your bag. Ask yourself about the provenance, the use, what will
midlifing
November 27, 2020
blog
Back in October my friend Lee Miller suggested we start a podcast. Yes, that’s what the world needs … another podcast. But we did it anyway and we
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