Aura2: A piece of Design Fiction for Macmillan Cancer Support
I made this future artefact as part of an application for an internal secondment. It's a printed onboarding phamphlet for a physical pain relief device set 10 years in the future.
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China demands pathogen fire wall around Urals
Short speculative news article about politcal effects of thawing permafrost.
Numen, OK girls and Barbie-wave feminists creating a two-system social estate
This is a speculative forecast made for an online futures course based on the rise of AI, Incel culture and new versions of feminism.
Tempus Fidget
A new playlist here, seven tracks.
As usual I have worked on something for quite a while and then procrastinated on pushing the send button. This time it was about fiinding a title. Until the phrase Tempus Fidget came to me I was a bit stuck. A few other titles
News from Notopia
This Insta side project combines several of my long-standing interests and concerns. Combining thinking about the near future and directions in what it means to be be a designer with my ‘anti martech’ and collage aesthetic, the aim is to bring to life unintended and unforeseen consequences of product design
Paradoxical innovation - ChatGPT and I create a new business guru
I really need to be a business guru. I figure I can do it, all I need is a new idea. Here is a (edited down) interaction with ChatGPT where I 'brainstorm' new business ideas.
Light
A new playlist of 5 more electronic tracks on the theme of light and folding.
200 Richard Ellis (post covid legs)
My first 200km ride since the pandemic started - back in the saddle, back in the pack or back to bed?
AI generated content and charities
This article outlines the state of art for AI written content, scans near-horizon capability and threat and sets out some discussion points for AI created content and how it sits in the charity world, both for fundraising and topic information.
Behind you now
A sound track for twilight walking at summer on a flat landscape, maybe a beach. Norwich. Dungeness. Paekakariki. Murawai. Deauville. Brighton.
Multiclock animation
An animation for one of my Multiclock audio pieces.
Multiclock
Four tracks mostly about rhythm: poly, multi, euclidian, cross, complex, drifting, irritating, pleasant. Pushing the clock, messing with time.
London Edinburgh London audio-doco complete
A three part audio doco about riding a bike a very long way in not enough time.
In which I ride the 1240km 2017 London-Edinburgh-London Audax event.
Corporate wank terms analysed
A running log of corporate speak I come across in the day job.
Charity, brand drag and the abject
How brand becomes the enemy of impact in charitiable settings.
Icarus - new playlist
A new series of five audio pieces.
War sonnets
Short sharp first responses to the invasion of Ukraine.
London Edinburgh London - Audio doco - Part 2
Part two of three of my audio creative documentary about the epic London Edinburgh London bike ride in 2017 - in this one I head out of the midlands and into the hills of north England and Scotland.
To Vauxhall
This is a proem from my 'Direction of travel series'.
Written pre-pandemic I wrote it moslty on my knee during a commute, so it is
very much about what was around me that day and quite discursive, which
hopefully is part of its charm!
I made a video for the
Canaries in Yorkshire
This is the creative territory I like to be in at the moment - a poem and
soundtrack working together. The more musical tracks I think of as practising
for these pieces which are much harder to create. It is so very easy to be
cliched when sampling and cutting
Wands
Added a new longer track to my 'Etudes'.
This one started - as many do - with listening back though some busking sessions
in VCV rack and picking out a couple of short threads which I thought would
sound good together in that they are quite oppossed pitch wise but
Urge to Archive / Journals project
A couple of years back I went through some of my old journals to see what I could find...
Seventh time through
This is part of my Urge to Archive/journal project.
[https://allln.ghost.io/urge-to-archive-journals-project/]
There are about a dozen poems from the late 80s that nestle in one heap I am
calling 'Seventh time through'.
Mostly they are about feeling. Having that, being in that state, wondering what
it
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all alphafirst draft / rough and guts because it's fun &i just need to get stuff out the door to get it out of my head so there's enough room in thereto breathe
London Edinburgh London - Audio doco - Part 1
Part one of three of my audio creative documentary about the epic London Edinburgh London bike ride in 2017. This one covers the first 36 hours from London to Scotch Corner, when things were still making sense.
Kinein
Kinein = κίνησις = Ancient Greek 'to move'. Eight short sharp tracks with a lot of kinein in them.
Loom
Six pieces concentrating on rhythm and pattern, inspired by a visit to a Welsh mill sometime in the dark days of lockdown.
Early hypertext works
When I first discovered how to put a website together back in the late 90s I made a few creative hypertext and flash works. The flash works didn't survive but the HTML based works are still viewable.
Why write poetry?
Yeah poems. Strange little things. Sometimes a bit too obvious, sometimes
oblique and evocative, sometimes just a scramble of words that doesn’t seem to
point to anything. There’s no money to be made in it, it can be horrendously
self indulgent, way more so than Drama say, so
Why is social so hard to get right?
The fallacy about 'corporate messaging' and how it interacts with social.
NZ Pix 2022
Places and details
People
Other 2022 random pics
Digital, charity and senior management
Age is a crucial factor in the success of digital leadership.
Why is social so hard to get right?
The ‘messaging’ fallacy and standing outside the castle wall…
I was at a meeting with a potential client the other day, looking at their five-year old site and found myself talking about the two seismic shifts in digital comms — mobile and social.
Mobile I will talk about another day, but
Tell, show, do - being effective
Thinking about services rather than content.
Tell, show, do - time to be useful online is now
Moving on from the charity website being a 'telling' machine...
Changing Web Navigation Metaphors - the mobile paradigm
Or, the web nav at the speed of I don't give a shit
Changing Web Navigation Metaphors - the mobile paradigm
How mobile changed the game on web navigation.
Storytelling versus Story plotting
The difference between wayfaring and travelling and it’s logical double storytelling and plotting.
Stories in space not time
If you think about storytelling being articulated primarily by space not time, what happens?
Should you write a novel instead?
Differences between writing drama and prose
Record your own work
Why recording your work is a great development tactic.
Should I write a treatment?
You could spend hours online reading about whether is was a good idea to write a treatment or outline before you begin to write a script... so do you?
The Heroine's Journey
A note to self post glossed from The Heroine's Journey by Maureen Murdoch.
Old news 1993-2001
Random news items from an old site that cover 1994-2000.
1. Allen Calls it a day and a night in Aussie - March 2001
2. Deviations in performance at La Mama - December 2000
3. Yet another job! - November 2000
4. ‘Ride on Time’ gets a recording - October