I’ve been ill this week and found the clip above in a moment of quietude. It makes me so happy because as a part time jiver I’m more and more interested by the lost art of social, synchronised and pleasurable bodily actions (and I don’t think of competitive sports as exactly the same thing).
I’m not sure how useful it is for the Green Party to borrow from the Obama campaign but maybe some voters don’t remember those heady days / Thomas is organising some interesting European institutional building and seeding get togethers / is celebrity AI the same as perfume deals / this Salvador Dali is incredible in person / may you live in interesting times isn’t a Chinese proverb at all / the London Picture Archive is fun / this Radio 4 show about the energy transition was wonderful / cultivating a repair mindset / the idea that modernism arrived in Europe via a folio is an intriguing thought / Summoned by Bells is a beautiful reflection on life in England at the start of the last century / an interesting take on participatory democracy / on the silent climate majorities / completely in love with these watercolour animal t-shirts / going to pop into the British Library to have a look at this David Hockney book on craftsmanship from 2001 / on cognitive surrender / if the City can have a livery company of framework knitters, i have high hopes we can start a digital design one.
In work news, I am waiting for something to solidify (it’s more at the jell-o stage right now) but am still available for short contracts so if you want to have a chat, book some time in! I am speaking at Cam Creatives next month and I think I’ll speak about design and (self) confidence.
Added to my commonplace book:
Such systems are trained on behaviour, not on meaning – they can track what an adversary does but not what he fears, honours, remembers or would die for. (from a NYTimes opinion piece)
[I use Claude] mainly because it fits my taste. (Simon in a long, an excellent talk)
[…]human beings were the only animals who seemed to prefer self-protection to virtually everything else, to life itself, survival, and sexual pleasure included. As though the life we most wanted was the safe and secure life; as though, as Freud would later suggest, we wanted to be as dead, as anaesthetized, as possible. (from The Life You Want by Adam Phillips which I’m slowly getting through).
Greece next week, so I’ll be an insufferable bore in my next visual weeknote on insta. I apologise in advance for the inconvenience this may cause.
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