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Hey people! I remember that, back in 2019 or thereabouts, I was listening to Nina Nesbitt a good deal, and a lot of other similar British artists; even shared some of her songs on the blog but have deleted those posts since. I...
If I learned one thing in 25 years of running design and education companies, it’s that idealism isn’t a business strategy. If you wonder why my partners and I had to shut down organizations we and lots of you loved, refer to the...
Phantom Canyon (2006) is another short animated film by Stacey Steers where many of the backgrounds and other details are collaged pieces from old engravings. There are so many of these films by Steers and older directors like Lawrence...
Read the full post at - Gospel of Thomas Edited by Stevan Davies I picked up the Gospel of Thomas recently while working through Diarmaid MacCulloch’s Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years. I hadn’t read the Gospel of Thomas in a...
Time has a way of rearranging priorities. Between projects and a few private matters, this blog has been unusually quiet for some time. Today it returns – with the clocks of George Sowden. Between 1981 and 1988, the Memphis design...
Most people turn dreams into goals too quickly. They get a spark of desire, and within minutes they start asking practical questions. When will I do it? How much will it cost? How will I measure it? What is the deadline? What is the...
This year is Apple’s 50th year in business. Decades ago, it lost creative focus, and spread itself too thin. Tim Cook describes how Apple does things, “We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the...
[Jewelers, you’re not great.] Has your once-storybook marriage crumbled, leading to a divorce that devastated both your heart and your finances? Perhaps you’d like to memorialize that by paying to repurpose your engagement ring into a...
Once again, my R2 unit and I will be heading across the country. This time, we are visiting Portland for the Pacific Northwest Pen Show and to help Dromgoole’s sell lots of ink, pens, paper and stationery. I don’t arrive to PDX until 7pm...
A new, computer-based calculation shows that our solar system used to have 5 or 6, rather than 4 gas giants. It seems that, billions of years ago, we lost two planets due to an instability that probably also tilted Uranus’s axis and...
Exactly one year from now, UX London 2027 will be wrapping up. Mark your calendar: July 6th, 7th, and 8th, 2027. If you really want to be ahead of the curve, you can grab a very limited super early-bird ticket now before the price goes...
In my latest podcast, a Newham whistleblower has more about the Newham council team which is aggressively evicting homeless people from temporary housing and pushing them into truly awful places which are cheaper. My source tell me that...
tldr; Want to skip straight to the news and find out about my new job? On December 15, 2014 I went to dinner with Jukay Hsu. I was 25 years old and not too proud to say yes to a free meal, and my friend Josh said I really should meet...
I like reading letters for particular persons. You and I talk about simulating each other. I've got a little Jon (not a Lil Jon) inside me. He tells me about chemistry, and systems, and to not take it all so seriously, dude. That voice...