Went to an open studio night and had the pleasure of meeting the artist Barby Asante / am going to try to go see Claire Fontaine‘s show and the AA Gallery show about Ursula K Le Guin’s maps / the concept of a memory palace is so interesting / calling floppy disks old makes me… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #101
Sunday Scraps #100
As 90s baggy jeans are coming back, maybe we should revisit this documentary about the role of hip hop in racism / the Institute for Public Architecture is doing some really interesting work on Governors Island / the visualisations done by Common Wealth are chef’s kiss / I am so here for Alfie’s project to… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #100
It’s only a paper moon (notes on Papercamp 4)
I spent last week decompressing from organising Papercamp 4, my hobby/mission to revive an event started by Russell and Matt in 2009. I’ll talk here about what motivates me to run small, niche (some might even say discreet) events. On the nature of community I’ve organised very big events but I prefer smaller ones. This… Continue reading It’s only a paper moon (notes on Papercamp 4)
Sunday Scraps #99
It’s been an exhausting few weeks so I’m a bit late with my links. The David Mellor museum looks interesting / I didn’t know Camille Pissarro lived in my area before Crystal Palace burnt down / refreshing to hear Malcolm Gladwell reflect on The Tipping Point / the growing number of people around me investing… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #99
Sunday Scraps #98
I’m glad someone thought deeply about the popularity of ‘hits different‘ which I’m too old to say without wincing / the Hjalli method of raising boys and girls differently in nursery to improve equality is quite something / I was at Fixfest last week thinking it’s been 10 years since NESTA looked at the makerspace… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #98
Sunday Scraps #97
I’ve been hanging out at Somerset House it was weird to see a cupboard labelled the West Asian and North African Women’s Art Library overnight / insert.art is an interesting digital magazine / Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia’s surrealist inspired videography is the kind of stuff AI wish it could come up with / remembering… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #97
A case for better (environmental) signs
A former colleague, Stef Webb is rightly obsessed with site notices. I’m obsessed with public signage about the natural world. Often terrible, temporary and inaccessible, they’re an expression of our eco-anxiety, magical thinking and ambivalence about our place in the natural world. Here are some examples from my own walks and hikes in London of… Continue reading A case for better (environmental) signs
The change tax? (looking at the cost of the perimenopause)
I’ve been reading the excellent The Price of Life and was so inspired I thought I would take a sober look at the cost of changing hormones. Because noone is writing about this in the Guardian but they should. Before being ‘allowed’ to start HRT*: £4074/year 2 big bottles of magnesium tablets to try to… Continue reading The change tax? (looking at the cost of the perimenopause)
Project Mordenite (what if Small Language Models improved the way we hire? )
A couple of months ago, after writing a few blog posts about hiring and job descriptions, I started working on an idea with Jim Kosem and Matt Webb. We called it Project Mordenite. Here are some of the ideas we had: The importance of being specific: The more senior a role, the more tempting it… Continue reading Project Mordenite (what if Small Language Models improved the way we hire? )
Sunday Scraps #96
Someone should make a documentary based on the life of Hong Kong photographer Nancy Sheung / I don’t understand what the eel collective does but it sounds interesting / bookmarking this article on car-free Devon for future long weekends / a friend told me about asafoetida in indian cuisine / theheat.io climate conference in Oxford… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #96