Hold On
What a Joellercoaster*. Let's keep this brief.
I've had a spurt of creative energy in the last few weeks. I wish I could say it's because four years of madness is coming to an end. The closeness of this election has has me thinking that the last four years isn't an aberration that we'll put in the history books; it's a new reality. No matter which way things go.
The timing is probably a coincidence. Or maybe I should be more inspired. What do you reckon?
Anyway. Here are some bananas I did last week:
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I'm navigating the cyan, magenta, and yellow palette (as opposed to the more beginner-friendly red, green, blue). I figured bananas of various ripeness would be a good place to start.
Made
I became a dad over the weekend. It’s a baby bot, weighing in at a healthy 10 KB. Here's one of their first words:
I've also updated the Ephemera site with a (slightly useless) graph. The longer the line, the more active that month. Think of it as a personal barometer for how much I'm getting out and about.
I think I'll make it so clicking each line jumps you to that month. Filtering by a tag, such as #receipt, will redraw the graph for just that one filter.
Wrote
Bringing Life to a Bot for more context, notes-to-self, and future project ideas for Ephemerabot and other potential bot children.
Tinkering with SPADE-FACE for machine learning experiments.
Inner World for photos and thoughts on John Boker's exhibition in Darlinghurst.
The Archie for photos and thoughts on the Archibald (and Wynne and Sulman) Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW.
Listening to
Bahamas' new album Sad Hunk.
Brett Dennen's new EP Accoustic, Vol. 2.
Saw
The Endless Doomscroller for when 2020 isn't giving enough.
I wish I could say I came up with Joellercoaster. It's borrowed from Noah Kalina, whose newsletter is one that mine aims to be half as good as.