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Field notes: Venetian bridge fights

The next long form essay is coming along - I’ve begun writing the zero draft after going down a rabbit hole on game design. The essay looks at a personal design process that can help you finish what y…

2d ago·3 min read·422 words

Rhubarb, the venerable Bede, and a cooperage

I’m experimenting with a new format - a weekly post with the links and other delightful marginalia I’ve come across during the week. Enjoy :) * Two centuries, not a single labor strike - the Italian…

Jun 7·2 min read·288 words

Carving ideas from the ether

This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 Lately I’ve been struggling with the latest essay for Endpapers. It was going to be on zibaldone, and an idea I’d had on how you can get both the easy process…

Jun 3·3 min read·447 words

Field Note: A card for project definition

This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 I’m a fan of noodling around on a creative pursuit. However, I also understand that if I want to make something for more than just myself, I need to set a vis…

May 31·1 min read·141 words

Field Note: Geography is four dimensional

This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 Derek Sivers’ post on the chronological dimension of geography is thought provoking. His examples relate more to the human elements of geography - cultural, p…

May 28·1 min read·199 words

Field note: Steinwinter Supercargo

This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 To borrow a phrase from the article, this truck is the epitome of “retrofuture hell”. It’s like an airport tug (the squat little slabs that tow planes around)…

May 27·1 min read·187 words

Field Note: Imagined Futures’ Cyberpunk episode

This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 Imagined Futures is a mini-series by the Object podcast. On the commute to work last week I listened to their Cyberpunk episode. In truth, I actually had to …

May 26·2 min read·245 words

Field Note: Papermakers of the lake district

For today’s field note, I bring you a piece of optimism in the form of an article on paper making in the lake district. James Cropper plc has been in the paper making business for 181 years. While the…

May 24·2 min read·214 words

Field note: Spreadsheets

This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 David Oks has a terrific write up on the modern digital spreadsheet. The idea that the Apple II was sold “as a VisiCalc accessory” is pretty funny. VisiCalc w…

May 22·1 min read·87 words

Field Note: Rally

This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 The ability to make an entire short film with Unreal Engine, and have it look as good as this is one of the best parts of the modern digital age. Who knew we …

May 21·1 min read·117 words

Field Note: Theodosian Walls of Constantinople

This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 Today’s link is a long exploration of the Theodosian Walls of Constantinople (modern day Istanbul). What stood out to me is that the walls kept the city safe …

May 20·2 min read·255 words

Field Note: A voltmeter clock

This is a novel idea for a clock - it uses voltmeters to show the hours, minutes, and seconds. Out of left field designs like things remind me that the mainstream of product design is a shallow money …

May 18·1 min read·191 words

Field Note: Ken Isaacs’ Matrix design concept

This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 I stumbled across designer/architect Ken Isaacs’ Superchair concept a few weeks ago. It’s turned into something of a rabbit hole - the original article for th…

May 17·2 min read·362 words

Field Note: Minox developer tanks

This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 During one of our weekly brain trust catch ups, my brother and I turned to talking about cameras and spies. I think we may have rambled at length about microf…

May 15·2 min read·265 words

Field Note: Typesetting races & technological change

This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 The Public Domain Review is one of those places where you can find the most intriguing things from a by-gone era. By the nature of copyright law, the stuff th…

May 14·3 min read·428 words

Field Note: Sailing

This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 I've been busy this week neck deep in a swamp of my own making - I went off the deep end with some research into Xerox PARC, and ended up designing a programm…

May 4·1 min read·104 words

Field Note: A computer for the 21st century

This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 I’ve been meaning to write more field notes. They are intended to be short form, less time consuming to write. That way I can share more of the stuff I come a…

May 1·1 min read·99 words

Creative flow & my writing process

This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 Research as a leisure activity is a succinct summation of much of my spare time. There’s nothing I enjoy more than to spend an hour or two disappearing into a…

Apr 26·1 min read·97 words

Cassette Futurism

This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 One of my favourite retro-futuristic science fiction aesthetics is that of cassette futurism. It’s built with the technology and world of the latter 20th cent…

Apr 19·1 min read·82 words

Talent not required

This work is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 Here’s some good news for anyone who’s ever felt behind as they learn a new skill or subject: quick learners are a myth. A study from Carnegie Mellon Universi…

Apr 6·1 min read·87 words

Meet Endpapers

Are you tired of the modern internet yet? Of the incessant intrusive fracking of our attention by mega-corporations with the morals of a week old rat corpse lying face down in a sewer? Of how every we…

Mar 31·1 min read·91 words