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.
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I’m starting to focus on self portraits
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Luna, teaching bubba to swim
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This is Maddie and Casey’s elopement, with me creating the marriage ceremony, photographed by Bec Zacher Photography for The Elopement Collective on the Sunshine Coast.
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What do I actually do?
I lead my whole life in preparation to be your celebrant. Living the joy in my own marriage, leading my family, enjoying my friendships, travelling, living, drinking, sleeping, and eating, preparing for this succinct and breathtaking moment in your wedding. We’ll have meetings, breakfasts, lunches, dinners, coffees and beers. We email, talk, text, and DM, over months and years.
You walk down this aisle, everyone cheers, and then the crowd hushes.
You’re standing here, holding hands, and everyone waits for me to start talking.
What do I say? How do I say it? What vibe do I leave? How long do I speak for? Will it be too long or too short? Do I say and pronounce your name correctly? Will my PA speaker system actually work? How will everyone feel? Will I do anything awkward or weird? Do you trust me? What kind of marriage are we talking about?
It all comes down to that moment where I bring the microphone to my mouth and starting dropping syllables.
Someone watching me create a ceremony recently said that I just “ad-libbed” the ceremony because I didn’t read from a script. It’s so much more than that. I have to stand there confident about what I’m going to say after asking myself all those questions I just mentioned, and do it with a calm and happy demeanour, without burying my face and voice in a script.
I arrive an hour or more early, and I wait while you’re late, then stay around after to help with group photos or to help your Nanna to the reception.
I live an entire life preparing for these 18-minute-long moments we call a marriage ceremony. And it’s amazing, I’m so grateful I get to be that guy. Thank you for inviting me in.
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Looks like a glasshouse ...
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Aircraft doing hard time
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Feels good to be back, standing outside the Gold Coast Qantas Club with a bunch of other members moments before it opens, as each new person who would imagine the lounge to be open by now, stridently - almost aggressively - walks past the congregation, gets to the automatic sliding door and their face sinks as it doesn’t open.
It’s been nine months, I miss you Qantas frequent flyers, you bring me joy.
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Sunset from Mooloolaba to the Glasshouse Mountains
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Ok, it’s competition time, let’s do this.
Best palindromes, go!
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The first rule of drone club is don’t take your drone swimming.
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Today we find out if my iPad Pro is for sale
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
– Issac Asimov
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Zoom slaughters the Apple Silicon Macs' batteries. Every time I jump off a Zoom call I'm surprised at how much it's dropped compared to regular usage. The circled part of this screenshot was a 25 minute Zoom call.
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I'm only speaking for myself, but 2020 was going ok until I found out that when I think I'm putting wasabi on my sushi I'm almost totally actually putting horseradish and mustard with food colouring in it.
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Instagramception #AppleSilicon
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Stellar little Black Friday deal from Aussie Broadband: 250mbps down and 25 upstream for the price of 100/40 for a few months.
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In a year where it’s been closed off to wasteful-on-holiday interstate and international tourists, Tasmania has declared itself 100% powered by renewable energy.
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Brisbane
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If you really wanted to take issue with macOS Big Sur you should be protesting on the streets regarding the external drive eject icon #wethepeople
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Takeaway
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Who’s house? Run’s house!
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This afternoon I sold my 16” MacBook Pro so I could buy a MacBook with an M1 CPU. I prayed to the ghost of Steve Jobs and said “please don’t let me buy the wrong computer” as I struggled whether to buy an Air or a Pro and now the Apple Store is down, so if that’s not a sign ...
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Parking lot
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Heard it on the wire
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As John Gruber said when he linked to this page of vintage Soviet control rooms, these would make for some cool Zoom backgrounds
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Today’s office: Byron Bay Airport.
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Fire on the water, a smoke in the sky
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Someone asked me recently what my personal brand strategy was.
I just see go to places, see cool things, make photos of them, and post the photos online where they get 2-3 likes.
I’m not very good at being strategically cool.
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Instead of calling a parmigiana a parmi or a parma, let’s call it a parmo #worldpeacesolved
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Sunset over what we call Summer Bay, despite the map saying Palm Beach.
