Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Walls & Ghosts. I’ve had a heavy couple of days, starting with contemplating walled cities and ending with wondering whether we live in a world of ghosts. 1. There is something about walled towns and citadels, such as St. Malo or Avignon, that intrigues me. The Pyrenean hilltop towns have the same fascination. I like […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Dreams at the Edge of the Earth . I found the most remarkable place in Scotland this summer. An all-year-round resort set in a thirty-acre former quarry, just a few hundred metres from miles of sandy beach and clear Atlantic sea. From here, the view west is all Hebridean mountains, shifting light and distant islands. […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
East vs West. To be clear, this is not an article on geopolitics. More heading to Devon over Kent! Some people head east, but I’ve never understood why. East feels wrong to me—flat, enclosed, uninspiring. If the west is a promise, the east is a warning. Even the light feels harsher, sharper, and less forgiving. […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Stargates & Steps. 1. Data Has Mass. It does. Apparently. Not in the lifting-a-dumbbell sense, but in the “a full hard drive weighs more than an empty one” kind of way. Barely anything, but it adds up. Same with thoughts. Fill your head with junk, it gets heavy. Which brings me to… 2. Sherlock Holmes. […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Predicting. I’ve been trying to set up some automations this week. Simple things, really—filtering emails, booking meetings, chasing tasks. But I’ve realised: my brain isn’t wired like this. I’ve not got very far. I’m essentially trying to replace my old assistant, Pippa, with AI. But AI doesn’t think. It predicts. That’s the bit I keep […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Trailer Trash. I’ve spent the past week working from a caravan in the New Forest while my son does his work experience at a nearby golf course. So, a few thoughts from the week for the weekend: 1. He’s learnt that working for someone can feel like being, and I quote, “a slave!” Mind you, […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Holiday Milk. Mental block this week. A few things come to mind, but no capacity to string them together. So let’s see where it leads. 1 Cannes. Blue chairs. Great idea in a place meant to be exclusive and elite. The promenade is dotted with sturdy blue steel seats. You can move them. Into shade, […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Complexity & Contradiction. Cave. The first studio apartment. Roof, walls. A single window and door combo. Your place. Sleep, cook, think. What more? Houses haven’t changed much. Where there is space, we add more rooms. Where there isn’t, we manage with less. They adapt. Progress means complexity. We have all this stuff. Often marketed for […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Vladie Van. “Hey Sir.” I hate it when they call me Sir, but hey-ho. “Morning, Vlad. How are those final drawings going?” “Pretty good Sir. Although my laptop crashed, and I lost a whole bunch of work. Had to start again.” “That doesn’t sound ‘pretty good’. But I know how you feel, the same thing […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Making Marks. The end of the academic year always brings its own unique atmosphere—equal parts excitement, exhaustion, and the faint scent of spray-mount. The studio this week has been a blur of last-minute model-making, frantic 3d visuals, and printers valiantly churning out A1 posters. I’ve spent more hours than I care to count hunched over […]
