1. Criminal Content
I started watching The Devil’s Hour this week. It’s brilliantly disturbing, chilling and intriguing all at the same time. However, I’d suggest not watching before bed, my mind was way too active to sleep. For those that have seen it, I did wake up at that time, coincidence or subliminal messaging? This also led me to question why we have a fascination with criminal content. Kushaan Shah from Mind Meld explains some of the underlying reasons for this strange phenomenon.
2. Painting
In a newsletter from Austin Kleon he encourages us to practice every day. Initially for 30 days as November has 30 days, how convenient. I thought I’d challenge myself to paint every day throughout November. You can view the mess’ I’ve made on Instagram and here on my blog.
3. Fediverse
With the recent Muskification of Twitter and the Meta overload Zuckerburg both flexing their algorithmic muscles looking to make everyone dance to their tune, I started to explore alternate ways to communicate with other creatives. This led me to Mastodon and then to Fediverse with its simple video explanation, Pixelfed, Mastodonand many others. I like the approach, I’ve joined in on Mastodon, but will need to see how this works out.
4. Creative Rollercoaster
I’m quite happy swimming in ambiguity, through the unknown to find clarity and make sense of messy problems. It’s what I do as a designer. However, I find it hard to put this into meaningful words. This week I stumbled upon this 2-minute animation from nowhere which manages to capture and explain the concept so beautifully.
5. Photographing history
I visited The Photographers Gallery this week to view the Chris Killip, retrospective. He has been labelled as one of the most influential figures of British Photography for his work documenting the lives of those affected by the economic shifts in the North of England. Killip’s photographs certainly do portray the times they were captured and the exhibition is worth visiting. Walking away from the gallery left me questioning how much cultural history has been captured by the ubiquity of most people having a camera in their pocket and can you imagine the gallery space required to display it all