The temperature has suddenly dropped. Only four weeks ago we were on a beach in Menorca and now it’s four layers and neoprene gloves. It came out of nowhere. I had my first commute yesterday where my fingers and nose were numb. I don’t mind it while cycling but it’s the fumbling … | Continue reading
The anticyclonic gloom has passed! I really loved the anticyclonic gloom. I loved the words and I loved the ways it evoked the idea of being in Silent Hill (the original). It may not surprise you to know that the fog in Silent Hill was a technical convenience to reduce render dis … | Continue reading
I decided not to post this yesterday, the feed were busy. I was up listening to the election results come in from the US. I went to bed thinking “I can’t believe they”ll win” (just as I did twice in 2016), I’ve woken up to “oh it won”t be so bad” which made me laugh […] | Continue reading
At least three people said ‘I love your blog’ in the last week and each time I felt crestfallen that I’ve been so lax with this this obligation. I really do try and do everything. I think I’ve seen films where in sound recording studios some of the sliders on the big desk of slid … | Continue reading
I took 10 days off a computer which was genuinely wild and came back to hundreds of emails, most of which were newsletters and marketing so I’ve been on one of my periodic unsubscribe binges and being pretty brutal about whether I’ve actually ever read a newsletter and if not, de … | Continue reading
I suppose there’s no excuse for the delay in missives. Things got busy and intense and I had to stop for a bit. Back in March I was getting back to PhD work, a few weeks later I had to put that aside as work got too intense and I had to focus up. Then […] | Continue reading
One of the things I’ve been really emphasising about this new technological wave in talking to people is that we’re not in the ‘exciting’ and frenetic days of early social media or the Internet. This isn’t a time where some new technologies are emerging and smart, playful outside … | Continue reading
I’m particularly annoyed today. I had a backlog of news and research to go through and mainlined too much horrible shit in one go to remain my usual centrist-Dad balanced self. Instead I’m taking this opportunity to work some rage at hypocrisy. It all started with this great Roll … | Continue reading
This is a rough, edited transcript of the talk I gave for Bartlett Cinematic and Videogame Architecture students on Monday. I recorded it on my phone which was sat next to me and then used Otter.ai (which is very good I think) to transcribe. Back in the day everyone used to blog … | Continue reading
I had a couple of notes of things I wanted to write about but I haven’t had time to get it all together. I’m trying to get the balance between being a general person-in-the-world, PhD student and day job in balance. They’re different head spaces which means there’s switching prot … | Continue reading
J-Paul quickly pointed out that last week’s post was a little unclear which is fair enough, these ideas aren’t super clear in my mind which is why I blog them to have exactly these conversations. I guess the thrust of it was: “Is/was the end of hollowed out of Design Thinking a s … | Continue reading