{"id":3477,"date":"2026-04-09T11:55:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2026-04-09T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:00:12","slug":"sunday-scraps-118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/sunday-scraps-118\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Scraps #118"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/royaldrawingschool.org\/artists\/louise-boulter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/rds.assets\/original_images\/Boulter_Louise_CH.jpg\" width=\"2500\" height=\"2378\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louise Boulter&#8217;s wonderful work.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Bend It&quot; The World of Gilbert and George (1981)\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3MAtC5PvIa0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jive_(dance)\">jiver<\/a> I&#8217;m more and more interested by the lost art of social, synchronised and pleasurable bodily actions (and I don&#8217;t think of competitive sports as exactly the same thing).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how useful it is for the Green Party to borrow from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama_%22Hope%22_poster\">Obama campaign<\/a> but maybe some voters don&#8217;t remember those heady days \/ Thomas is organising some interesting European institutional building and seeding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebuild.net\/journey\/\">get togethers<\/a> \/ is <a href=\"https:\/\/newsletter.squishy.computer\/p\/the-bottleneck-shifts-to-distribution\">celebrity AI<\/a> the same as perfume deals \/ this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/article\/artsy-editorial-salvador-dali-painting-schiaparellis-tears-dress-london-debut\">Salvador Dali<\/a> is incredible in person \/ may you live in interesting times isn&#8217;t <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/May_you_live_in_interesting_times\">a Chinese proverb<\/a> at all \/ the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.londonpicturearchive.org.uk\/home?WINID=1775575474271\">London Picture Archive<\/a> is fun \/ this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m002tf9x\">Radio 4 show about the energy transition<\/a> was wonderful \/\u00a0 cultivating a <a href=\"https:\/\/makezine.com\/article\/maker-news\/cultivating-a-repair-mindset\/\">repair mindset<\/a> \/ the idea that modernism arrived in Europe via a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wasmuth_Portfolio\">folio<\/a> is an intriguing thought \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JO1q5w6GSUE?si=iTxSlR_EKODLufS2\">Summoned by Bells<\/a> is a beautiful reflection on life in England at the start of the last century \/ an interesting take on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0nb9lbm\">participatory democracy<\/a> \/ on the silent <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.climatemajorityproject.com\/Mobilising%20Silent%20Majorities%20March%202026%20(2).pdf\">climate majorities<\/a> \/ completely in love with these <a href=\"https:\/\/wild-animals.nl\/collections\/t-shirts\">watercolour animal t-shirts<\/a> \/ going to pop into the British Library to have a look at this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thamesandhudson.com\/products\/secret-knowledge\">David Hockney<\/a> book on craftsmanship from 2001 \/ on <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/04\/research-finds-ai-users-scarily-willing-to-surrender-their-cognition-to-llms\/\">cognitive surrender<\/a> \/ if the City can have a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Worshipful_Company_of_Framework_Knitters\">livery company of framework knitters<\/a>, i have high hopes we can start a digital design one.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>work<\/strong> news, I am waiting for something to solidify (it&#8217;s more at the jell-o stage right now) but am still available for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/services\/\">short contracts<\/a> so if you want to have a chat, <a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.app.google\/321CZ6Y4WDBfVGHu9\">book some time in<\/a>! I am speaking at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/camcreatives\/\">Cam Creatives next month<\/a> and I think I&#8217;ll speak about design and (self) confidence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Added to my <strong>commonplace book<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Such systems are trained on behaviour, not on meaning &#8211; they can track what an adversary does but not what he fears, honours, remembers or would die for.<\/em> (from a NYTimes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/29\/opinion\/israel-us-war-iran-literature.html\">opinion piece<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>[I use Claude] mainly because it fits my taste.<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wc8FBhQtdsA?si=C8KegLQJkELMocEx\">Simon<\/a>\u00a0in a long, an excellent talk)<\/p>\n<p><em>[&#8230;]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.<\/em> (from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/469154\/the-life-you-want-by-phillips-adam\/9780241766118\">The Life You Want<\/a> by Adam Phillips which I&#8217;m slowly getting through).<\/p>\n<p>Greece next week, so I&#8217;ll be an insufferable bore in my next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/designswarm\/\">visual weeknote<\/a> on insta. I apologise in advance for the inconvenience this may cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;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&#8217;m more and more interested by the lost art of social, synchronised and pleasurable bodily actions (and I don&#8217;t think of competitive sports as exactly the same thing).&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/sunday-scraps-118\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Scraps #118<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sundayscraps","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-U5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","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=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3481,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions\/3481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}