Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Mr Bricolage. 1991 Find a hero. Read everything about them. Apply it. Find another. Do it again. Those were Jay Potts’ instructions. For someone with the capacity to obsess over something for a short period, they still work perfectly. Jay was my architecture lecturer. Well, he was the one really. Found me a job. Picked […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Modules. What happens when I don’t know what to write? I write that. What happens when I feel uninspired? I watch a video about making stuff. Then go make something. Happened yesterday. Last weekend I made a sturdy bench on wheels. The rickety thing I’d been using for the past year — plywood balanced on two […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
A hundred weeks of curiosity. This is the 100th edition of Thoughts for the Weekend. When I started in June 2023, there wasn’t a grand plan — more a marketing push after launching a new website, an effort to explain what I do a bit more clearly. The idea was to shed some light on […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
How to Design a Winery Before Bed. After finishing my day’s work yesterday, I set myself a challenge: design a winery before bed. I’d spent the morning in a medieval vault and a rooftop bar discussing the project with my group of students, whose final-year project it is – see the TFTW from a couple […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Decaff Dreaming. This week, I’ve left it late. Overslept. I woke at 4 am. It was too early to start work, but I wasn’t sleepy, so I put on a podcast and listened to an interview with a chap called Whitley Strieber. He regularly slept with an alien in the 1980s. I did fall back […]
Thoughts for the Weekend & this Week’s Links
Let’s be Superhuman. I’m going for the numbered list format this week: 1. I said last summer that I wouldn’t mention AI again. Well, all that’s changed these past few weeks. I’ve been deep in ChatGPT and discovered other versions that generate high-quality images directly from my hand-drawn sketches. 2. I’ve been working ChatGPT hard. […]
