{"id":3453,"date":"2026-03-02T18:50:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=3453"},"modified":"2026-03-04T14:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:19:06","slug":"sunday-scraps-115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/sunday-scraps-115\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Scraps #115"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tracey Emin: Why I Never Became a Dancer, 1995\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/79687251?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I have friends in both Israel and Lebanon and I grew up in both Kuwait and Saudi so I&#8217;m trying not to stare at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Media_coverage_of_the_Gulf_War\">CNN like it&#8217;s 1990<\/a> \/ The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/whats-on\/tate-modern\/tracey-emin\">Tracey Emin<\/a> show is about so many things, you should see it \/ I love how AI is sometimes about re-inventing all the software that&#8217;s ever existed (in this case <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/luke-fielding_figmamakeathon-figmamake-musictech-activity-7434284222627938304-i_tI?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAAA8XQoBAk11ZfQR2b5uKqPgE1br8jVYDTA\">Max MSP or Isadora<\/a>) \/ meanwhile even the <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/artificial-intelligence\/pope-priests-ai\">Pope<\/a> has to issue AI policies \/ might go check out this show about a <a href=\"https:\/\/designmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/blitz-the-club-that-shaped-the-80s\">nightclub<\/a> \/ someone dropped some terrifying information on my lap the other day so I self-soothed by listening to <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/4SO7TjgWK5qQ3wOKIbR7bL\">The Body Keeps the Score<\/a> \/ the kinetic works of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jakobgrosseophoff.com\/kinetic-sculptures\/\">Jakob Grosse-Ophoff<\/a> remind me <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E2evC2xTNWg\">Simone Giertz<\/a> shitty robots (her words, not mine)\u00a0\/ I loved this essay on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/mikek_design-practice-assumes-a-world-that-no-longer-activity-7430714995002388480-MXb9\/\">industrial design<\/a> by Mike but I&#8217;m not 100% sure I agree \/ my favourite new word is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lodestar\">lodestar<\/a> \/ i was told to buy <a href=\"https:\/\/cornishseaweedbath.co.uk\/products\/super-nutrient-shampoo\">seaweed shampoo<\/a> and I feel like growing my hair long is a form of indirect taxation.<\/p>\n<p>Added to my <strong>commonplace book<\/strong>, here are some surprising AI related expressions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>&#8216;AI confuses fact, knowledge and belief&#8217;<\/em> (an excellent accessible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CyyL0yDhr7I\">lecture<\/a> about AI at the Royal Society)<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8216;ChatGPT is \u2018too eager to please\u2019. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Claude was more \u2018brutal\u2019&#8217; (OH at work)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8216;<em>I wanted to build something that helps create personal infrastructures that do exactly what you might need and nothing more.<\/em>&#8216; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/tobybarnes_started-to-build-out-fieldguidebuilders-activity-7431393939993255937-eUjW?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAAA8XQoBAk11ZfQR2b5uKqPgE1br8jVYDTA\">Toby Barnes<\/a> over on Linkedin)<\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In <strong>work<\/strong> news, I&#8217;m 3 weeks away from the end of my contract and might have a very small piece of change management work with a friend for a couple of months. Which means I am still very much available for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/services\/\">work<\/a>. I received an automated rejection email from the last proper thing I applied for so just going to keep my eyes peeled and freelance until the universe says otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, half of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/papercamp-5\/\">Papercamp 5<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/papercamp-5-tickets-1723742061909\">tickets<\/a> are already sold, so do spread the word! I need to get some sponsorship behind the event as it costs me about \u00a37K to run. If your company would like to pitch in \u00a3500 or so, get in touch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have friends in both Israel and Lebanon and I grew up in both Kuwait and Saudi so I&#8217;m trying not to stare at CNN like it&#8217;s 1990 \/ The Tracey Emin show is about so many things, you should see it \/ I love how AI is sometimes about re-inventing all the software that&#8217;s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/sunday-scraps-115\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Scraps #115<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sundayscraps","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/tracey_dancing.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-TH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3456,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions\/3456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}