Category: #sundayscraps

It’s sunny today. Makes it all so much more bearable doesn’t it. Well almost. Apparently Churchill got into painting which in turn inspired George Bush Sr. / an early open hardware handheld tablet made in India back in 2002 /  this article on design leadership in AI lost me entirely when it referred to exquisite… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #116

I have friends in both Israel and Lebanon and I grew up in both Kuwait and Saudi so I’m trying not to stare at CNN like it’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’s… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #115

So glad I went to catch some sun by the sea over the weekend as this rain is getting so boring. We should also rename it dreich. My scraps are going to veer into the smart homes domain as I start writing the second edition of Smarter Homes. I apologise in advance if this bores… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #114

  It’s really hard to understand what Lindsey Vonn was thinking but I hope my nephew (now competing at a high level in acrobatic ski back in Québec) isn’t watching the Olympics / there must be a german compound word for a location that gets used over and over again in the visual arts /… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #113

A book about the Concorde /  can’t wait until Pol Esteve Castelló publishes their book about the architecture of discos / will someone curate an exhibition about the instructions we give to protestors / I posit architects started using arrows when universal road signs were developed / Scrutton street might be redeveloped and i’m a… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #112

  I really hate having to worry about American politics so this Ezra Klein podcast episode made me feel a little better / I worry when AI unicorns start making promises they probably can’t keep / the more I look at it, the more I see that LLMs are a response to the plethora of… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #111

My Spotify Discover Weekly mix was excellent this week. I take this as a good omen. A friend is helping make and install public benches  where they are needed and I so wish London would get over its propensity for hostile architecture / I didn’t know radon in buildings was a cause of lung cancer… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #110

The closing of CCA is a sign, we should gird our loins / a great lecture on media literacy by danah boyd / Maya Angelou’s only album was described as exotica which was a thing back then / the Garden Museum’s exhibition of Rory McEwen paintings was wonderful / an AA talk about the role… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #109

God I love holidays. I went to Nice and had a fabulous time (even popped over to Marseille to spend the new year with friends). I hope you also enjoyed yourself. As a reminder, I started Sunday Scraps in 2018 as a way to clear my open tabs. Best to think of these as digital… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #108

Last one of the year and it’s definitely influenced by the Mediterranean (where I’ve decamped to for a week). I visited Villa Arson for the first time today and it’s doing what the Barbican should do with art education / even if Marty Supreme is basically a film about toxic masculinity, the soundtrack is amazing… Continue reading Sunday Scraps #107