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COMPILE Simplify Diary I wrote this post last winter (2010). Subsections are updates winter 2011 in retrospect.I am going to be getting rid of things- My laptop died and I’m resisting the desire to buy another one. Instead, I am using Macs at uni and other machines for work. This has I think had a positive effects on my life the last couple of months. Because it was; creating a place where I could be to be organising files and things. Restricting my productivity due to not being able to run heavy duty apps like Indesign and Lightroom, and generally providing too many opportunities to fiddle due to its portability- I pity those with iPhones.
Reducing the stuff that I do- I have stopped actively looking for website work and instead tend to do very specialised work on other projects with other people. This is partly due to experience gained from working before and also from contacts gained through my course.
- Being in London I have tried to grasp the reality that I can’t be doing mountain adventures all the time, so I’m not romanticising about them. Instead I have turned my attention to psychogeography stuff, walking and cycling in the city, urban exploring, history and place.
Killing off projects- I have come to an appreciation that ideas are cheap and plentiful, not all are worth pursuing and realising a good idea requires time, dedication and effort. Its impossible to realise all the ideas that I have and I wouldn’t want to anyway.
Roughing it more- I do this by deliberately doing Couchsurfing in the city and other forms of non-standard city accommodation. My life became more difficult, I had to put effort into everyday things like sleeping and eating but it was satisfying. However, a level of stability is important. Finding the right balance isn’t easy. Getting too comfortable results in laziness.
Eating less- I make my everyday life so that it requires more effort and I didn’t have the chance to spend time snacking in a flat. I am eating well, but have a life that requires the energy.
Denaturalising my technological instincts- I did a U-turn on this one. Instead I stay aware of the ‘call of technology’ and have plenty of downtime. On the other hand I am going in deeper with technology and trying out new things like mobile technology, working on macs, GPS, materials, biomimicry, coding, design research.
Making tactile objects instead of digital based media- I have done research on craftsmanship through my university course and I have written an essay on the value of knowledge gained through experience. I am yet to do enough making though, and this is coming up in a project where I am looking at artist Daniel McNett.
Spending more time with people talking, cooking, making fires, walking.- I am spending more time with people these days because I am there with people.
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If you are interested in travels, please click here (link to travel taxonomy) If you are intersted in technology, please read this aricle for how I got into technology, some of the problems I have solved and projects I have done.
Other: Photography, film
Meta Website is the key. The window on the media and stuff. Can I make hosting of the website cheaper, by hosting in s3 and using codebuild to do the build instead of amplify.
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