New projects up at KL11. Took a while. Have a look?

Guide-lined S from the coin-operated (STD) phone booth, a twenty-first century oddity under the CH Bridge. One of the few such places surviving the untethered hardware revolution. Metered connections in a part of the city that thrives on people being sticklers to other metered experiences.

Lightly edited brush-strokes and largely untouched pencil-strokes awash in gradients. Using the tablet on the lap like a much lighter fruit-branded device is an easier way to deal with wide strokes. The fans (and the temperamental device drivers) get in the way and stink of a generously sized BuyersRemorse beast lurking between the almost nonexistent foldout legs.

The two Ts are less than nice to look at but whatever, for now.

Three rides and a long day of white-balancing, overexposing, lens-correcting images.

Cropped from a composition in reverence to Chip Kidd’s cover for The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.

Part generative art, part pen-tablet exercise. The Pencil tool (N) is a much more appropriate bezier-starter (than the Brush tool, B) when tweaked well. The Brush picks up annoying stroke thicknesses by default.

[Talking about the Amish way of dealing with ‘new’ stuff.] If it’s going to make it [core principle valued above all else] stronger, then we can adopt it, and if it’s not, we’re not. Often the way they’ll do this is they’ll test it. They’ll essentially the Amish equivalent of an alpha geek use it. Great. Here’s a cell phone came along. Use a cell phone for a while. Let’s watch it. Let’s see what happens. Here’s a car. Great. Someone buy a car. Let’s watch. Does this make things better or worse in terms of the thing we really care about which is community strength? …

I think if you leave the walled garden of social media and go back out to the wild web, you can find interesting things. You can connect to interesting people. You could express yourself in interesting ways and you can do it in a way that’s just so much healthier because you don’t have these algorithmic forces trying to push you into weird extremes, or to pacify you, or to get you upset, or to get you mollified or whatever’s going on that’s necessary to get revenue up at these private companies.

— Cal Newport in conversation with Brett McKay. Podcast discussing Digital Minimalism, with transcript; I don’t think the second excerpt above does justice to being representative of the rest of it. He discusses the not-easily-perceived opportunity costs (such as in the Amish example) in detail in Deep Work, as well.

Off the indoor stadium wall, on the way to the bus-stand from the studio. Many months’ worth of film posters peeled off by the rain and the adequately drunk.