She watches her big sister (try to) do ballet all week
As a person born in 1981, the greatest dilemma I face is whether I identify as Gen X or Gen Y.
I don’t like Gen Whiners, they don’t seem like my kind of people, but then I hear really old people identify as Gen X and I’m sure I’m not that old.
I get itchy when I sit with a photo I’ve made for more than 24 hours, I couldn’t imagine dedicating 50 years to a work of art.
Time to get off the hamster wheel: interview with Spencer Howson
Spencer Howson on 4BC Weekends invited me into the studio to explain why we’re moving to Mexico.
DJ Patil - former U.S. Chief Data Scientist - has the best advice on building: dream in years, plan in months, evaluate in weeks, ship daily.
Nine years since I’ve walked through these doors
Henry Luce, founder of Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated magazines:
“To see life; to see the world; to eyewitness great events; to watch the faces of the poor and the gestures of the proud; to see strange things — machines, armies, multitudes, shadows in the jungle and on the moon; to see man’s work — his paintings, towers and discoveries; to see things thousands of miles away, things hidden behind walls and within rooms, things dangerous to come to; the women that men love and many children; to see and take pleasure in seeing; to see and be amazed; to see and be instructed.”
Eve Peyser in Intelligencer on Mensa:
“Many of its members think of themselves as outsiders and feel like Mensa is a place where they can be themselves and connect with people who understand and appreciate them.”
B.D. McClay in The Hedgehog Review:
“The other great crime of whataboutism is that it solidifies the online sense that the appearance of paying attention is paramount—not actually paying attention.”
View the world through a series of incentives and you’ll find we’re doomed in every direction. Health departments want people to drink less. Tax departments want people to drink more.
NPR:
Japan launches a contest to urge young people to drink more alcohol
How sunrise at Currumbin Rock looked this morning
An update to the whole ‘my photos were stolen and published in a book at Kmart" story:
Before beginning any legal proceedings I sent them an invoice for a “plucked from the sky” number to license my photos to them. $2,200 an image, $8,800.
The publisher freaked out, took the book off the shelves, and called me to apologise. They ended the phone call with a commitment to come back with a compensation plan, but so far nothing.
$2,035 to send a lawyer’s letter on a hope and a prayer that they respond.
It’d be a lot more money to take it to court.
Sitting here wondering how to respond, so I sent a text. Thank god autocorrect softened the blow.
Expo 88 is the reason I'm a nerd
One of my earliest memories is from Expo 88 in Brisbane. I remember the intense display of future technology - or at least what they thought it would be - and it sparked something in me that still rages today.
The wonder of how amazing tomorrow could be.
Thanks to Anthony for sharing this Expo 88 blog post from the National Archives in The Sizzle newsletter today for bringing all those nerdy memories back.
One of these photos has a very cool Josh Withers in it, I’ll let you play Where’s Wally to figure out which one. The other is from the NAA.
My favourite kind of internet communication is when you write a joke then people comment with real advice.
Sam Neil is bringing Jurassic Park down under!
My mate Jay has made a documentary about remote knowledge workers, digital nomads, working around the Arctic Circle and I’m pretty damn jealous of those landscapes, the visuals, and the lifestyle! Check out the trailer!
Temple & Webster bed: $450. Koala king mattress: $1039. I Love Linen sheets: $335. How Luna sleeps: priceless.
The only correct way today can go in #auspol is if the Prime Minister does a press conference where he takes off an Albo mask and is Scott Morrison underneath.
It’s weird when I hear about people watching the same TV show at the same time as other people because the antennas on a nearby mountain determined it so.
Its kinda quaint, like calling someone on the phone, or catching a bus cross-country.