A short one, and a little bit of press.
Hey y’all. I’m thinking this week about an earlier, wilder version of the internet. Not even that long ago, I’d receive a non-spam email — a new business inquiry, a friendly message, someone asking for a bit of advice — from completely out of the blue. There would be no obvious reason they’d found me — no discernible point of connection I could make out, at least not immediately. There was this thrilling sense of chaos — a feeling that you were actually connected to the world in a non-superficial way, and that something cool and strange might wander through the front door of your digital storefront at any time. Do y’all remember that?
Of course, nowadays there’s a lot more alarm and no surprises. Our stumble-y chaotic surfing has been largely replaced by curated, anticipatory, algorithmic scrolling.
Do you have ways of combating this? Of returning your digital life to more of a “woah look what washed up on my shores this morning” kind of experience? If you do, I do hope you’ll share.
Anyway, something a little like that older internet happened to me a month or so ago. I received an email from Júlia Martín — a fellow multi-hyphenate creative person based in Barcelona who works at Pixabay (aka the other Unsplash). Júlia wanted to interview me about being a designer and a musician, and how those two things talk to one another. I thought it sounded like it could be cool. And lo, a rare bit of press for my little studio was born. So! If you can handle a rare cross-post/link jump, you can head over here to read that. I think it’ll be interesting to many of y’all.
Okay. That’s it for this one. Work and links below. Thanks for being here. See ya next time.
Recent Work
Some of what has recently flown the coop. To see more, you can always head over to the home page.
Whiskers on kittens
A few of my favorite things.
“There’s a version of musical success almost nobody on the internet talks about anymore, and it’s the most common one in human history. You make music with your friends. You record your songs. You play the local bar on Friday and the church on Sunday and the festival in the park in July. You teach a kid down the street how to hold a guitar. You write something that gets sung at a wedding. You die having made beauty for the people who shared your life. That is success. That has always been success. Most musicians who have ever lived have lived exactly that life, and most of them were not unhappy about it.”