After reading Russell Davies “Notice, Collect, Share",’ I’m more inspired than ever to get back into the habit of…noticing, collecting and sharing. As part of that return to habit I’m going to try and find five things that interest me every week, and share them here on my blog. 5 things per week, for 20 weeks, equals 100 Interesting things. Maybe one of these things will inspire you. Maybe one of them will inspire me. We’ll all learn something along the way.
1.) “if you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t understand it.” I’m trying to get a bit better at writing, both because I enjoy the act of doing it. But also because I know it’s a tool for creating better work. As part of that I’m paying more attention to writing about writing and posts like this one are standing up at attention for me.
2.) I’ve been reading a lot of Ursula K. LeGuin lately, and enjoyed an essay she wrote called “The Carrier Bag of Fiction”:
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. "Technology," or "modern science" (using the words as they are usually used, in an unexamined shorthand standing for the "hard" sciences and high technology founded upon continuous economic growth), is a heroic undertaking, Herculean, Promethean, conceived as triumph, hence ultimately as tragedy. The fiction embodying this myth will be, and has been, triumphant (Man conquers earth, space, aliens, death, the future, etc.) and tragic (apocalypse, holocaust, then or now).
3.) I don’t know what it means but I’m fascinated by the differences between the recent Balenciaga and Nike shoes:
I don’t know what it means that two of the world’s biggest brands both released running shoes that are almost opposites of each other, but still within the realm of running shoes: Balenciaga the almost inaccessible high-fashion brand creating a shoe that is an exaggeration of everything we know a show to be, including the gum sole, dirt stains, and floppy laces. Nike, the sports brand for everyone with a body, released AI designed shoes that are such an abstraction that they almost aren’t even a shoe anymore. (This part of the past was almost part of my larger thoughts on AI a few weeks ago)
5.) I know that Threads was meant to a text-updated replacement of Twitter but posts like this make me think it’s untapped for interesting photography:
This week’s photo is of The Fisheye Nebula - a formation that is 6,000 light years from earth, and which spans 70 light years.
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