I, for one, welcome our new DJ overlord.
If I am elected President of Australia tonight, in my first 100 days I will bring back the stirring spoon to McDonalds McFlurries. I will make McFlurries flurried again.
Luna was really upset. She thought we were going on a boat when I said that we were going to vote. Teach your kids the difference between floating on water and enacting change.
Name a better collab, I’ll wait
As someone who attends weddings professionally, I find it amazing that in ‘woke 2022 where we’ve #metoo’d, we’re feminists, living in a diverse community with global internet access, that Millenials are getting married & half the weddings I arrive at are culturally 1960s themed.
I just realised I slid into my 14th year as a marriage celebrant over the weekend. Three years ago the Gold Coast Bulletin did a piece on me about how I’m not a terrible human or celebrant, so if you want affirmations in that arena, I definitely recommend reading this.
“Leaving everything up to the publishing industry is not the best way to run a culture.”
– Brewster Kahle
“It is far easier to critique than to create”
– Laurence Endersen
Grandpa
I think it’s beautiful that guys with crazy eyes who only wear gym shorts find love.
Who had Louis Theroux being the most popular rapper of 2022 on their 2022 bingo card?
I, for one, welcome our new sunny and shining overlord
David Thorne was doing NFTs well before everyone else
One of the best things about the internet is how you are distincitly awards how few people are listening to you.
For a decade I worked in an industry where we broadcast from soundproof rooms playing music and talking excitedly under the guise of everyone listening to us.
Here on the internet we have verifiable proof that most people aren’t listening.
So if you feel alone here, you’re not. But then you weirdly, kind of, really are.
Rest In Peace, still images on Instagram
Ok, I’m a little bit sad because the Internet is changing and I don’t like it.
My favourite thing to create outside of marriage ceremonies, are photos. Video is fine, but there’s something so beautifully finite about a photo.
A photo says everything it wants to say and no more. You don’t need volume up, and you can give it as much attention as you like. You’re not forced to spend a certain amount of time on it. You can spend all day looking at and thinking about a still photo, or half a second.
The medium requires nothing, but everything off you. You can just as easily swipe past it as much as it can change your life.
High quality and colour graded is nice, but I think about the first computer I owned. The entire screen was 640 pixels wide, and 480 pixels high, and each pixel could be one of 256 colours. Nothing fancy, but I saw photos that changed me on that screen.
So Instagram, Facebook, and Meta are pretty much moving away from still photos. Recent changes mean the entire company is deprioritising photos and prioritising Reels. Think about the last time you saw something on a Meta platform that wasn’t a moving picture.
So if we want to stay in touch, it’s gotta be over video. Unless you’re on somewhere cool like Twitter, Glass, or Micro.Blog I guess.
Video killed the photograph star.
When a wedding vendor emails you prices and you don’t reply
Talking to a celebrant friend this morning and they have a funeral this afternoon where there’s only one family member attending because the deceased pissed off everyone she ever knew.
The celebrant has a reading that’s “good for people who pissed everyone off.”
Apple Photos’ memories feature can detect when I’m at a Foo Fighters concert but categorises the photos from the hospital at Southport where both our daughters first appear in the library as “Southport over the years”.
As an Australian who consumes far too much American content in the form of podcasts and emails, let me echo Douglas Adams:
“American audiences do not need to feel disturbed by the notion that places do exist outside the US”