84. Requiem for a nightmare
This one has been a long time sitting in my drafts being tinkered with on a lot of commutes. Over the intervening weeks I have probably deleted 1000 words so...
83. Trace memories
The jet lag from the trip has finally worn off. It feels like a long time that I was away. I still get the occasional flashback to the phone snatch moment I...
82. Snatch & grab
A few milliseconds was all it took. I was standing on the street outside my hotel DM’ing with a friend - possibly even a reader of this - and a kid in a navy...
81. Definition and context
[There are quite a few images in this one so you might want to load them up!] Last episode I finished up by mentioning Gabrielle Zevin’s Tommorrow and...
80. Next Next
I think most of you can probably now guess why there has been such a gap between episodes. And I’m quickly writing this one to ‘productively procrastinate’...
79. Generative things and choosing the right words
It’s been many weeks since the last episode. And I know that for American readers, its been particularly awful and I hope that this episode provides some...
78. RPM
(D. Woodard and W. S. Burroughs with Dreamachine, 1997, John Aes-Nihil via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) After nine years of hard pushback on social...
77. Art of tote bags, or, Venetian Stares
I was amused to find the measure of distance to the moneyed heart of the art world represented at the Venice Biennale was the tote bag. Pretty much every...
76. Art of fighting
R and I are almost finished an intensive beginners kendo course. Neither of us can quite remember how the idea first started but it also involved G...
75. Scrolling memories
Another short one. Again in the service of shorter attention spans and quicker responses. Charlie Wurzel’s recent rumination on abundant personal digital...
74. Things on screens
Hello again This week I managed to finish a book, not just pick up read halfway, and then get distracted, but actually finish it. Progress is being made....
73. Short diversions
This week its a short episode with some optimistic links for these increasingly dark times. The war in the Ukraine is unbearable, the new IPCC report is...
72. The delayed 2021 roundup
It turns out that 2021 was a pretty terrible year all round. I know you almost certainly had and awful one too. But I’ve been doing annual round ups each...
71. Iron curtains
It’s already the second month of the new year and I’ve still not finished writing my 2021 round up! Time marches on and I can’t have that weighing over all...
70. Queues, failures, tapes & razors
[A lookout in Katoomba is unexpectedly prescient about our uncertain future] I have rushed this one out the door so it gets through to you in the final...
69. Minimal tolerable product
Today was a good day - in that Ice Cube way. Things got done. Things that were hard to resolved got nudged out of inertia. And there was a beautiful sunset....
68. Discovery tools and partial-machine curation
I had hope to be sending this a little sooner than this but, y’know, its been quite a week in Melbourne. Not just a lockdown but also riots and, errr, a 5.9...
67. Immersion rewind - back to theatre
Immersion A little while back, between lockdowns, K and I went out to see a twice rescheduled immersive theatre production Because The Night to celebrate our...
66. Horizonlessness
Meow Cats will always find the highest point in a room. Maybe not while you are in it, but when you creep downstairs in the middle of the night, there they...
65. Video video video
A1 It turned out that the Rising Festival that so many of us were looking forward ended up being cancelled - the second year in row. A reader, Esther,...