photo: kittygutz When I was travelling, I got into the habit of taking my ukulele out with me most days (actually this started happening much more during SXSW when Sarah, Dan and Phil encouraged early morning crooning in the car while heading downtown). Not only did simply having an instrument in my hand prove to…
Tara Hunt talks about the honesty behind the honesty of that TEDx talk: “I was scared to give it. I’m still scared every time I send it to someone. I’m not talking about my success or all of the awesome things I’ve accomplished in that talk. I’m talking about struggling, failing, not knowing where I’m…
Tara Hunt talks about the honesty behind the honesty of that TEDx talk: “I was scared to give it. I’m still scared every time I send it to someone. I’m not talking about my success or all of the awesome things I’ve accomplished in that talk. I’m talking about struggling, failing, not knowing where I’m…
A couple of things in my stream this morning about using newly liberated data: Hadley pointing to Jo Ivens’s piece “Open data: we can’t just rely on developers” for demsoc.org “I am a policy type who cares about social justice and believes that the voluntary and social enterprise sectors can have a central role in…
Neal and I made this. Well Neal made it and I ponced around in purple rubber gloves stretching it pathetically and needing a lot of lot of help. it was great fun. Then Neal hung it up in his smokehouse (a big wooden chimney next to the barn – yeah a wooden chimney, go figure)…
On the first day I was in San Francisco I was advised “You need to give people more time to help you”. One of the key bits of character building in this trip has been letting go of impatience, allowing things to happen in their own time. Allowing the route to unfold in its…
Over the weekend I really enjoyed watching @sizemore and some chums making a sci-fi short in 48 hours for the Sci Fi London Film Festival 48 hours competition. I was even more impressed when I saw what they came up with. [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/21914737 w=500&h=283] Mike opened up to questions on his blog and I asked about…
One of my most consistent creative blocks is thinking about how what I’m making is going to be received. I can go round and round in circles in my head for ages worrying about this or that. (Btw it’s one of the reasons I try to write longhand and then type-up rather than type straight…
Michael Dila picks up Tara’s “Unclear Path” and riffs on it, adding in a couple of important points about this journey/traveler metaphor: “What kind of people would rather take the hard way than the easy way? People who are looking for something, but don’t know what it is. There is a lesson in the historical/mythical…
Sorry, this was supposed to be a “bonus link” for that last post but I got carried away with my own rhetoric. Here, have some of Tara’s rhetoric instead. “where is this road taking me? Well, that’s the craziest part of all…I’m not entirely sure. However, I was heartened to learn recently that this is…