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Lovely exhibition of Gees Bend hand-stitched quilts at the American Museum in Bath - the size and precision was incredible. Made me want to get crafting. www.americanmuseum.org/exhibitio…

Cool Werner Bischof images at the Fox Talbot museum taken in the 1940s with a Devin Tri-Color camera - it captured in one shot three different photographs through the colour filters: red, green and blue. So vivid!

Enjoyed a brisk beach walk in Devon while watching surfers before preparing a roast dinner today. Happy Christmas! 🎄📷

Cooler weather perfect for a dog walk

Thoroughly enjoying Orphan Black: Echoes. A bit more serious than the first but very much the same wacky sci-fi vibes. 📺

5 hours weeding the driveway and I I’m spent. There’s something satisfying about the kind of tiredness you get from gardening - feels like a proper workout.

Had a bit of a meh feeling evening so got up early and tacked the garden before it got too hot. Sometimes you just gotta get you hands in some soil and do some hard graft outside. That and the sunshine and mood already improving. 🌱

Voted.

Lovely day wandering around Eastbourne discovering nice food and coffee. This was a sweet potato and chorizo hash from Urban Ground. Also had great coffee at Nelsons.

Golden beams

Into the light.

Snapped this guy hand lettering script on the wall in gold in a palace. Such skill!

Street cats of Istanbul

Loving this chill cycling YouTube channel 🚲 - making me want to build a bike and go on adventures youtu.be/v97mfCWE2…

Lovely cliff path walk today south of Falmouth, Cornwall

Nice day trip out exploring Bristol on the train while visiting nearby

Waiting for her first train ride

Day 7 or 8 of Covid for me. So thankful to be able to shelter at home and have someone look out for me, but living in one room has been really testing. The dog spends time outside my door not understanding what she can’t come in. It’s finally eased off a bit but so looking forward to starting my …

Got to go on a boat tour of the Rampion wind farm off the south coast of the UK. Such an incredible engineering feat to build something like this in such a challenging environment.

Heading into Brighton in a rare outing to see actual people, lured in by the tempting double bill of @paulrobertlloyd and @roobottom give design talks 🙌🔥

Lovely 4K renders of rivers - love the organic shapes. From the post: “An ongoing series of vibrant river and delta images from North America and other parts of the world. The images are constructed using high-resolution elevation data. To learn more about the rivers and to download the …

Interesting article from DJ mag on the future of the DAW for music makers djmag.com/features/… 🎵

Finished reading: Last Argument Of Kings by Joe Abercrombie 📚a great third book albeit long - already onto the fourth, ‘best served cold’ which is a revenge thriller set in the same world.

Finished reading: The Rose Code by Kate Quinn 📚enjoyed the blend of history and thriller

‘Esme’s Chair’ - cool yellow and black blue relief inks. I’ve only got 3 colours and two cutting tools but hope to save up for more! 🎨

Did some linoprintng yesterday 🎨

Satisfying morning fixing up log store and carrying/stacking a load of wood 🪵

Lovely sky yesterday evening where I parked

Found some awesome lit tiny paper dioramas in an art show - furniture all about a few cm high 🎨

Out exploring West Dean Gardens in the heat and enjoyed all the shadows in the glasshouses 🌱

Perfect day off Thursday at west wittering beach

Stunning shots from the Drone photo awards 2023 - still tempted by a drone (but know it requires as much practice as any other creative discipline) - too many hobbies! 📷

Electricity from the air - a long way to go before it’s practical but interesting research 🧐 ⚡️

Enjoying tweaking my microblog with Modern Font Stacks and Tiny Theme from @mtt (thanks for making this lovely theme!)

Played my first hour of tennis in 15 years - ooof 😅 time to figure out how to get tennis-fit again! 🎾

Teaching myself lino printing - first efforts 🎨

Very grateful for local woods to take dog when it’s hot 🥵

Added some wood stain to step edges - less of a trip hazard!

Write up a little piece on A.I. on my blog from the perspective of a designer 🤖

Was looking for a binge-worthy tv show and enjoying the older 📺 The Blacklist (2013)

Just finished www.momtestbook.com about how to talk to customers to validate business ideas - lots to process and figure out from it but just excellent. I love Rob Fitzpatrick’s books - never too long but always insightful (writeusefulbooks.com was another absolute fav from him this year) 📚

Loving this video from Vox and Jake Blount on the banjo’s connection to early black folk music as well as his own site - a treasure trove of folk music old and new 🎵🪕 jakeblount.com/black-str… youtu.be/wrRfOzhM2…

Almost done watching Sevrance - what a show. Each episode builds on the last wonderfully and it’s just beautifully shot. 📺

I’ve decided to have a go at learning how to make ambient lofi music with ableton from scratch over the next year. Does anyone have any good recs for reasonably priced sound interfaces and desktop speakers for use with a Mac? Points if they look nice. 🎵🎹 Update - lots of good recs received! …

Just discovered the joys of Israeli Osem peanut butter puffs and Belgian lotus biscoff biscuits - upping my snack game 🍪

Wanting to write longer-form posts more and get back into blogging, so I’m trying to carve out time weekly to write more. Here’s today’s effort: 15 lessons learned working remotely for a Product Company

Waiting for the light on a rainy day 📷

Mushroom season 🍄📷

Loved all the mossy trees and feeling of the seasons changing 📷

Went out capturing autumn while my wife photographed the colour 📷

A day in the life: enjoying a good coffee while looking out at the garden greenery, with dog who always comes to sit beside me.

Lovely day out at Leonardslee Gardens enjoying the sculptures 🥰 🖼️

Enjoyed a woodland walk seeing all the mushrooms out 🍄

Trying to get outside more after work and walk. Sky changed as sun was setting.

First painting in about 5 months - nice to break the dry spell 🎨🖌️

Cleared out a dedicated art space 🎨🖌️

Enjoying some Sunday morning coffee ☕️ and debating whether I should upgrade my Series 4 to a S8 or a secondhand S7 ⌚️

Old Coast guard cottages

Seven Sisters, south coast of the UK

What are folks using as ebook readers these days? I love my kindle voyage, but wondering whether a Kobe Libre 2 might help me get through my large epub collection more easily. I know Kindles now work with epubs, but not natively - Amazon converts them. 📚

Enjoying the quiet and cool green shade

Keeping cool in the woods - early dog walk before temperatures rise

Fascinating article about vending machines - more than you ever thought you needed to know www.theguardian.com/business/…

Tuning in for WWDC keynote today - interested to see how they balance beginner UX of the iPad with the more pro features they desperately need in iOS to make the most of the M1 chip.

TIL today: Mac OS Monterey has a networkQuality terminal command - very useful!

🎙🎵Looking for some recommendations for over ear headphones for heavy online/zoom use by and occasional music while working. Airpod Pros are great but ears starting to get sore. Wired or wireless fine, but ideally not too hot. What’s your fav audio setup?

Nice day for some stand up paddle boarding (I must learn how to do this this year)

Loving this print from Geri Draws Japan feels very summer-y 🥰

Amazed by the age of Karahan Tepe, the 13,000-year-old city - older than anything else we know of.

Loving this how we think about ux quality from Shopify the use of a pyramid for communication of effort is a really nice touch.

Enjoying a breezy beach

Back down in the SouthWest visiting the father in law. Love the sandy beaches down here.

This hardcover edition of Thoreau’s masterpiece looks incredible. Love beautiful book design 📚

📷 day 10, Pot with very slow growing cactus 🌵

📷 day 9 bloom some lovely sea thrift

📷 Day 8, Union tandem paragliders- can’t really get closer or more dependent than this! 🪂

📷 day 7, Park - as I live next to the South Downs, this is my local park. Spot the paraglider 🪂

Nice Synth tutorial for beginners from Ableton

I’m not really a⌚️person, but this explanation of the physics of mechanical watches is wonderful

📷 Day 6, Silhouette, 18th Century tin mine pumping house

📷 bluebells that grow in earth from my local woods, photo challenge day 5

📷 Day 4 Thorny - despite garden needing removal of many thorns, prefer staying inside w this guy.

📷 Day 3 experimental photo challenge - the Uk’s national sub-atomic particle accelerator (I was lucky enough to photograph) - riffing off @rknightuk

Interesting that Basecamp are rebranding back to 37Signals as they start making more products after their addition of HEY + one in the works.

📷 Day 2, May Photoblogging Challenge photo done - thanks to my wife’s iPhone and my curious dog Misty. I probably should have taken it down one more level.

#mbmay photo challenge - switch 📷

Lovely belated birthday present of Issue 2 of FRAMELINES a street/documentary photography magazine 📷🥰

The Reason Why - really enjoyed listening to this on the drive back - a really entertaining podcast looking at the social issues, hidden history and culture wars in contemporary Cornwall, including the ridiculous cost/unavailability of housing.

Heading back on the long drive from Cornwall today. Enjoyed exploring the St Agnes headland yesterday, Wheal Coates and Towanroath engine house, dotted with mineshafts and 18th century mining ruins, now a UNESCO protected site.

Finished reading: The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman 📚- I’m a big YA fiction fan, and love discovering older sets of books that I can devour much like a complete series on Netflix. A fun fantasy mystery series.

Been very lucky with weather staying down at Watergate Bay - a much needed week of coastal path walking exploring different parts of North Cornwall, doing 10-15km each day.

Some more shots from Holywell Bay yesterday - a beautiful beach!

my favourite coffee brewing method: Planning third day of Cornish walking with the help of good coffee. Tried a million different ways of making coffee and keep coming back to a ceramic cone + paper filter - simple, fast and consistent ☕️

Spent the day offline exploring the dunes of Holywell Bay. Nice to reconnect with nature.

Exploring micro.blog as a place for short notes, photos and thoughts as opposed to using the big silos of Twitter and Instagram - looking forward to tinkering with some themes for it also.

Started a week off down in Cornwall exploring the North coast yesterday - this was a nice 5 mile stretch of the SW coastal path along to Newquay. Sea Thrift starting to show!