“I don’t know if this will be a ‘daily vlog’ or a ‘daily vlog except when it isn’t’” “I don’t know what I’m talking about” Classic Davis Vlogging Something something, whatever it takes to get me working out loud again. The convention will be that the date on these will be the day they get…
It’s my blogiversary. Here’s where it all started in September 2004… Some thoughts now on my thoughts then: “The world really has changed” – I obviously thought this needed saying. Who was I trying to convince? Will there ever be a time when this isn’t true? “I am connected to a very diverse network of…
So, I woke up thinking about practice. Just choosing to do a something, over and over again. Like, this morning, at 7 a.m., the kettle’s boiling, and there I am, setting up my camera, pressing the red record button and talking to myself in the kitchen like any other ordinary person in the 21st Century….
One of the things I’ve been reflecting on lately is that I’ve been making things on the web for at least 20 years now. It’s been almost 20 years since I started this blog, and that got me thinking about why I called it “Perfect Path.” That’s a question nobody ever actually asks. People always…
I recently came across these gems among my sixth-form reports: “I should like to see a minimum of 15 hours study per week at home to begin with; then a greater commitment to the detail of his subjects and less reliance on his natural flair. If he exerts himself next year, the reward could be…
Since the end of 2022, I’ve been part of this thing called Hard Art, a collective working on cultural responses to all the things we’re facing right now, but particularly various climate-related ugh-nesses. Over the last year, as a kind of ice-breaker, people have made blind contour line portraits in pairs and then amazing artist/musician…
Citations galore needed but… Keir Starmer is quoted as saying there’s an “anti-politics mood” at the moment (as we move towards a General Election in the UK). I don’t believe there’s an anti-politics mood, but I understand why professional politicians see it like that, because they believe that politics is only what politicians and activists…
Fingers crossed that metalabel can help solve the big problem in creative collaboration.
On. Those. Trays. # The Chamberlain Memorial and Birmingham Town Hall, from a car park between Chamberlain Square and Gt Charles St, showing the partly demolished buildings believed to be the Mason Science College (later to be the site of the 1970s Central Library) Tony Davis, 1964, I think. # I spent a little time…
I like this format because it reminds me of primary school, where the first thing you had to do was write today’s date at the top of the page. # Today I learned that Stanley Baxter is a) still alive at 97 and b) out of the closet since 2020. # A reminder that the…