Definitely worth a watch, on where design is from leading thinkers.

There is a quote in here related to products being created to keep you in a constant loop of attention, which I agree with has gone way too far, especially for the generation that have limited exposure to the analogue history.

Are designers becoming problem creators rather than problem solvers? I think the universe of Meta, Instagram and Youtube have a massive responsibility to not become money machines and to know boundaries. The issue we get to is that nothing is ever enough.

I'd much rather go into a vinyl store than engage in internet experiences that throw freesbies at you from every direction.

Today I got a special email from London, the colour photos I went to lengths with in three cities around the world were ready developed. It's always such a great moment, with a mix of suspense and discovery, despite quite often too some revelations of mistakes - not few. But it's that process.

I kind of go with the moment onto sharing. I really want to wait to see them all, but the ones from New York are keeping me hopeful I haven't lost the quirks and aspirations of what it all was about.

Brother from another mother with an excellent mix here.

Looks like a very fun place to be.

New York you Wizzard of energy.

This is ❤️

After having experienced Rio, I can't wait to rewatch this. I remember it made a big impact when I watched it, entirely on the levels of Paris and New York.

 

Meeting a new countdown. I know better what the cities mean. And this one will always be special, one of the magic ones. Packing my camera to see if I can express this better this year.

Happy New Year, it's time to get things rolling.

Organising things is extremely time consuming of recent so it's key to let it go at the speed it needs, and do it with music.. hang on the music needs a system too. This will come.

Turns out I've saved some over 2000 tracks on Soundcloud in the last decade and I think I could listen to them all in one flow if I could. Perhaps getting them into the playlist mode is a much better user experience, to be considered. Looking for good energy and the ones that have something that makes you instantly connect and wander.

Really happy to discover this talented human. Like the young William Klein with another take.

Out of the Artists worth listening to across the Atlantic, David Salle is definitely one of them.

Haarlem, 2022.

I look back at this and they will always remind me of a special period living in Haarlem for a year. It was a really different type of chapter than Rome, but it was equally filled with a room to want to create and so I went on a new frenzy there, acquiring canvases almost every weekend, experimented a lot and didn't necessarily have a fixed agenda to it. Outside of work it was a wonderful release to play with colour, make something in the sketchbook become tangible, mix ideas and discover some of myself through it.

How we were treated moving out is a little sting to the story, since we had to achieve this rather fast to allow for the next tenant to move in, to save costs of a double rent to the new place we found - and so by finding all possible means to make a proper clean up I later found out the lesbian owners of the apartment were complaining of finding some tiny fragments of paint, calling me an amateur painter. I really hope to show those ladies otherwise, even if my passion is self-taught.

Over a good period of time, actually somewhere from 2014 I started fiercely adopting a habit of forcing some output out of myself into a sketchbook. This has been ongoing for over nine years now, and while photography was always up there as the important medium the tools became somewhat inter exchangable and I had not made any ways to isolate one other than a gallery here on the site.

So I decided to try an experiment with an account that captures only the drawing process, and touching into painting as well if appropriate, this will just have to be organic. So for those curious to follow the account is abstrktnoveau.