Unconditional Imaginings
“The value of your imagination can go up as well as down.” An analogy based on the small...
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Provocative absence and the power of minus
I recently released the final episode of Sound of Silence – the world’s first silent podcast...
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This blog is just for nice
This blog is f’nice. There’s no real objective to it nor anything in particular I want anyone to...
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Yugen and the art of the intangible takeaway
Amercian Artist Edward Ruscha* suggests that there is a simple way to distinguish between good art...
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Sixty Shades of Silence
Silence is an absence of vibration, detected by an ear. If there is no ear, there is no silence....
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Why do I write? (A love letter to my blog)
Why do I write? I write because arithmetic isn’t my thing.I write because there is not...
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Taking boredom seriously
If I could go back in time, to Monday September 3rd 1984 and speak to 12 year old me on my way to...
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Finding flow in dissonance
My experience of flow is that of a state where everything finds synchronicity. A symbiotic...
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Brut Creativ! The importance of bearing weirdness
Outsider Art has always fascinated me. Drawings, paintings, sculptures (etc) made by people with...
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The Originality Trap
This blog is not totally original. Nor are any of the blogs I have written since Can Scorpions...
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Repeat addiction and the potency of doing something only once.
There is something bitter-sweet about doing something for the first time. The sweetness comes from...
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Emptiness and form. To structure or not to structure.
When it comes to designing experiments, workshops and other social interventions, structure...
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