Is technology addictive?
It feels like I’m missing something. I wonder if there’s a record-setting sporting contest I need to witness. Um… nope. I wonder if anybody’s retweeted that awesome last thing I drew. I’d better check. Sheesh, tumbleweeds. Maybe something’s breaking in the news. It’s still snowing in Scotland. It feels like I’m missing something…
Inspired by the post – Is technology addictive? by Audrey Watters.
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The Art of Visual Thinkery – a workshop
A while back, I was invited to lead a full day workshop on the Art of Visual Thinkery, with a focus on mindset. Having said that, I’m looking into the possibility of running some thinkery sessions online. If this interests you, then please get in touch!
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Shed – ideas worth making…
I met Paul from Pimoroni at a maker fayre in London recently. I’m a big fan, and I really like how they’ve used a Pirate aesthetic to allow the maker community to really understand what they’re all about.
And so it was that we chanced upon the very spirit of makery captured forever in this conversation:
– Look at this thing that I made!
– That’s great! Why’d you make it?
– Why not?
Why not? indeed…
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A post-brexit passport
So far, the only emerging upside of Brexit is to have a new-in-my-lifetime-but-old-in-others coloured passport. So in order to help out, I thought I’d throw my own design into the mix.
This is the third in the facepalm thinkery series, following this and then this. Given the current state of things, I’m sure there’ll be many more to come…
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That’s been my mantra over the last few weeks. You see, I started my career as a programmer, but I haven’t actually programmed anything for many years. The Visual Thinkery project pipeline was quiet before christmas, and so I found myself exploring SVGs (Scalable Vector Graphics). SVGs are images described as vectors in XML format (if that means anything to you - don’t worry if it doesn’t). One thing I noticed in getting back up to speed is that the web has matured a LOT since I last tried to make it do stuff. And so it was that I found myself completely ignoring my to-do list in order to try out another idea, and then another one, until it suddenly dawned on me that I could create a piece of artwork, make it public and allow others to remix it without the need for bespoke graphics software.
I’d completely forgotten how fulfilling it is to create something that (eventually) WORKS. (and maybe the more time it takes, the more fulfilling it is when it does work...) Even if WORKS is a pretty relative self-defined term. It’s making - and I love it.
