What can I learn from how brewers help or hinder the flavour profile of rice when they’re making sake?
Author: Matt Shanks
14,500 days unnoticed
If I’ve only noticed the sunrise a handful of times out of tens of thousands of daily opportunities. What else have I missed?
Ready? Catch!
If we never know when the world will offer us a new idea, how can we best prepare for the moment when it inevitably comes?
Brain, Heart, Hips and Feet
If you feel like dancing, you probably wouldn’t book last minute tickets to a Chopin concert. So what’s bad music? And can bad books exist?
Exposure matters less and less
What changes in an art practice when the sharing of the work one makes becomes secondary to making the work in the first place?
The Usual
Is there value in being consistent & predictable? Is there value in the opposite?
On building one’s own neural network
What if we chose to build our own neural networks instead of the networks of enormous and extractive software companies?
It came outta nowhere
Could thinking of ourselves as a characters in an unwritten movie help us process good and bad surprises and make the movie more interesting?
Lists work
How do I organise, prioritise and complete the life shrapnel that gets in the way of making more significant work? Can an empty square help?
Quentin Dupieux makes films
Why bother making a weird idea that’s really difficult to make if it won’t make you money, find an audience?