Hi! My name is Josh, this me blog.

The dance of pleasing the social media algorithims of the world’s biggest companies, whilst being beat to death by strangers with their comments displeased me so now I’m here.

I wish I were the kind of person who could just live without broadcasting. But there’s an animal inside me — right down in the marrow — that keeps asking ‘can you see me?’ and silence has never once soothed it.

  • Well, that’s a wrap on another day of pretending like I know what’s happening.

  • Because I couldn't get my head clear to write this morning I worked on a cover for the book instead.

    If you'd walk past this in a shop and stop, like this.

    Would you buy it? Let me know why.

  • The future of creating is damned

  • 📷 Engineering (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @ridwan)

    These are my DJI microphones, and as a travelling nerd I really appreciate how they've been engineered, all to stay within the little charging case.

  • 📷 Tile (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @thedimpulse)

    Luna, nine months old, taking a breather on the floor of a Tuscan church.

  • 📷 Tile (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @thedimpulse)

    Photo made outside a small Italian restaurant in Brisbane.

  • Talking to a lovely old Mexican bloke in Cabo San Lucas and he asks where we live, I say Pescadero.

    He says, ‘I love Pescadero because it looks like a Mexican fishing village but it’s full of white people!’

    So apparently my whiteness is like some kind of gravitational force.

  • 📷 Zip (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @miraz)

    zip /zip/

    verb

    1. fasten with a zipper.

    2. move at high speed.

  • Local Baja news includes the taco price index

  • If you look closely you'll find yours truly's name mentioned in the New York daily rag today.

  • U.S. petrochemicals giant Dow Inc and the Singapore government said they were transforming old sneakers into playgrounds and running tracks. Reuters put that planted AirTags inside 11 pairs of donated shoes and found them at Indonesian flea markets instead.

  • 📷 Solitude (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @circustiger)

    I made this photo in Yosemite National Park.

  • The most interesting (to me) new app/social net-ugh-something-work is Artifact. It’s from the guys who created Instagram but it’s like a ‘TikTok for articles/blog posts/news.

    I personally would much prefer to read than watch a video, so this is my kind of network.

  • I fell victim to a phishing scam yesterday and man, I haven't felt shame like that in a while. Here's what happened, and how you could avoid it if you weren't an idiot like me.

  • Anthony Bourdain in 1999 before he was that chef guy everyone knew, writing 'Don't Eat Before Reading This' in the New Yorker:

    "Good food, good eating, is all about blood and organs, cruelty and decay. It’s about sodium-loaded pork fat, stinky triple-cream cheeses, the tender thymus glands and distended livers of young animals."

  • I don't wish to cause the editors at Atlas Obscura any stress, but why is this not titled 'The God's Must Be Thirsty (for Red Fanta)'

  • Islands, they’re always in the last place you look.

  • Celebrating Wayne Shorter (1933-2023) with his 2018 open letter co-authored with Herbie Hancock:

    "We are all pieces in a giant, fluid puzzle, where the smallest of actions by one puzzle piece profoundly affects each of the others. You matter, your actions matter, your art matters."

  • 📷 Weather (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @pcora)

    Photo made in Newport Beach looking at Catalina on Saturday just passed.

  • 📷 Secure (#mbmar Micro Blog March photo challenge prompt suggested by @mandaris)

  • They got me by talking about my main domain name and my main domain host. Even though it’s not hosted at VentraIP. I’m just so used to having to correct payments there.

    I didn’t even notice the bung I in VentraIP, the bad email address, the bad domain.

    I’ve locked the two credit cards I fed them. Feel like an idiot.

    As Abe Simpson said, and it will happen to yoouuuuu.

  • One of the little joys of being great at your art is inspiring others to take part in it. So often I am asked how to become a celebrant, that I have finally published my little eight-part guide on how to become a celebrant at the ever-so-smart domain name, becomeacelebrant.au

  • A letter from a freelancing poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay, to her publisher, Poetry magazine, with the business inspiration we all could take, from Letters of Note.

  • I'm a sucker for a crazy plan of any genre, but a crazy plan to save newspapers, I'm all in, Ted.

  • This line from the late Rich Mullins is my inspiration for writing, but gosh it's hard sometimes

    God spoke to Balaam through his ass, and God’s been speaking through them ever since.

  • 📷 Four frames from El Pescadero, Baja California Sur, today

  • 📷🚁🇲🇽 Four aerial frames from Playa Los Cerritos, Baja California Sur

  • 📷✈️🇺🇸 Four frames out the window of AA2171

  • 📷✈️🇺🇸 Four frames from LAX on Sunday

  • 📷 Four frames from Newport Beach this past weekend

  • Stephen King in On Writing:

    If you’re just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television’s electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.

  • Debt by David Graeber:

    If you owe the bank a hundred thousand dollars, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank a hundred million dollars, you own the bank.

  • Hey, don’t be alarmed or anything but the President of Mexico, the head honcho, the big guy in charge, has tweeted that one of his engineers has taken a photo of an elf. Just another day south o’ the border.

  • I’ve just had my peak Mexican moment. I delivered a dad joke in Spanish and it was perfect.

    I’m at our local sushi restaurant ordering takeaway dinner and whilst waiting at the bar they offer me a margarita, and you don’t say no to a margarita in Baja.

    I finish it, and he gestured towards my empty glass to which I reply “esta roto” which means “it’s broken” whilst inspecting the bottom of my glass, implying that the drink must have fallen out of the bottom.

    He laughs, I laugh, I’m now a Mexican dad and can never leave.

  • If you want surf and snow in the same trip, I can definitely recommend Los Angeles today.

  • Drove past this park today and noticed something interesting on Google Maps at (33.6621623, -117.8775484).

    I wonder how many aircraft the Google Maps aerial photographers have captured?

  • Now I’ve just got to hope the people writing memos or sending emails regarding Bel’s Guide don’t stop me.

  • Do you think Carls Sr. is proud of his son?

  • This is good content, we should podcast about it.

  • Visited the Japanese mothership (aka Canon campus) in Los Angeles and asked them to clean my cameras and lenses.

  • Steve Jobs in 1984 spotting a Macintosh in the wild for the first time.

    I couldn’t begin to imagine the what he was feeling seeing a product he knew so intimately, that his team had worked on endlessly, to see from the street it just being used by someone in an office.

  • I tried but it turns out you can’t go Out before you go In

  • It’s so special to be in LA to watch the city fall to pieces with my own eyes.

  • ‘dat light + reflection

  • Los Angeles bound for a few days, thankfully it’s raining so we won’t stay long enough for it to make us soft.

  • Goldie, taking full advantage of the Shatner Seat

  • What a time to be alive