This blog/newsletter is for artists. For storytellers. For lateral thinkers. For multi-hyphenates. For chaos goblins. For the square pegs. For those who refuse to follow a trodden path. Those who feel everything so, so deeply. For those who are still working things out.
Expect weekly-ish journeys down various rabbit holes straight into your inbox, with selected essays published here.
Last night, I cancelled my Adobe subscription. Lightroom was the last app I had out of the whole Creative Suite, and the hardest to let go of as it basically took care of my whole photography workflow, start to finish. But my yearly contract was coming to an end, and it was sort of now...
The first rule of improv comedy is that you never say no. “No” is a buzzkill. It robs you and your partner of an opportunity for forward motion. It’s a block, a dead-end of creative pursuit. A betrayal of trust. You can’t do anything with a “no”. “No” stops the creative process. There are no...
What does your creative practice look like? Mine looks a bit like this: Nature walks and swimming in the sea, Photography and collage, Embroidery and working with found objects, Staring at the wall and driving in silence, Conversations with friends, Gardening by trial and error (mostly error) and...
In the actual play podcast (if you’ve never heard the term, think improvised radio play) Chapter and Multiverse that my teen introduced me to, one of the characters, Mini Smithson (played by Lydia Nicholas) is an alien pretending to be human – but not succeeding very much (and it is...
MailerLite unfortunate switcheroo, choosing your newsletter provider, and the technical nitty-gritty behind my transition away from Substack.
Hi friends, These past couple of years have been somewhat of a public unravelling as I’ve been figuring out where I want to go next. I’m no stranger to flying by the seat of my pants, following my nose, and figuring stuff out as I go (and it has worked out pretty well for me so far - from moving...
In the final chapters of Evgeny Zamyatin’s dystopian novel We, the authorities have finally figured out what was causing the turmoil that has permeated the otherwise perfectly calibrated society of synchronised workers and glass houses. The problem, it turned out, was that some humans...
I keep thinking that it must feel weird for you to read me writing about gardening all of a sudden. Like, what does it have to do with photography? Probably nothing. Probably everything. I’m still figuring it out. My brain doesn’t work in a linear way. It swirls and shoots to random places, making...
There are at least three things I didn’t know about pirates: One: The Jolly Roger was a symbol of not so much a threat to others (“you are going to die”), but more of sheer defiance (“we know we are going to die”). Pirates knew that they had signed their own death warrants once on land, and...
I had a bit of a flirtation with AI early on. It was fun and exciting to play with it and see if I could push the limits of what I myself could do. I was inspired by Jonas Peterson - a photographer and an early Midjourney adopter who seemingly mastered the art of AI (and made a shit ton...