I found a woman who knows a woman who knows a guy who makes drill powered caulking guns for extruding clay. Get excited! What are you excited about that nobody else gives two hoots about?
Fiona Tribe
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Cultural Anthropologist | Workplace Strategist | Ethnographer | Clay Artist | into architecture, cultural literacy and Stuff | Wurundjeri land/Melbourne | fiona@whiteowl.net.au | No DMs | whiteowl.net.au
Painting created by Anthony Dare c.1964 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital in Surrey, where he was compelled to live. No biographical information is currently known to us about him, this is one of his four surviving works & the subject is art therapist Edward Adamson &
Don’t tell me your values — they’ll reveal themselves soon enough.
“On questions foreign to his technical competence but not to the power he has acquired through it, [the Expert] can pronounce with authority a discourse which is no longer a function of knowledge, but rather a function of the socio-economic order.” ~ Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life
And also in that same issue of Astronomy - a composite photo of the moon making an analemma over the course of a month by Omar Wael - phenomenal!! mymodernmet.com/lunar-analem...
I’m a fan of something between a children’s playground and a mausoleum when it comes to workplace design.
I’m looking for the perfect pair of jeans, white t shirt, and black tailored pants. Why is that so hard.
Things I believe and will continue to bring to everything I do: 1. Enterprise software should be delightful to use. 2. Meetings should be enlivening. 3. Colleagues can like each other without pretending we are a family. 4. It's cool to contribute to things (even "simple" or "mundane" things)
I completed the census in advance so I have to stay home next Tuesday, and nobody is allowed to stay over. 🚫
41. Kalpa Imperial by Angélica Gorodischer (tr. Ursula Le Guin). The follow up to Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities but trading in the architectural fancy for an opulent cornucopia of invisible empires rising and falling over and over again.
It’d be cool if things worked. I’d be happy with 50% less technology if shit just worked reliably.
nothing makes you question your beliefs more than seeing those who share them
I’m the person who always sees the film the person I’m going to the cinema with wants to see. I cannot remember the last time I suggested a film without being talked out of it. Is this why people go to the cinema on their own?
[Struggles for three months to master a technique] Teacher: Brilliant! See? I knew you’d master it. Now here’s the cheat’s way. Much easier.
“I’ve forgotten the name of my hotel” Yves Bonnefoy, The Wandering Life (tr. Hoyt Rogers)
My August 3 will forever be a day of remembering. www.whiteowl.net.au/blog/2020/9/...
For crying out loud — WhiteOwl
It was early on 3 August 2020 when my phone rang. It was my Mum. ‘I’m sorry love. I know you have an early lecture this morning but I think Dad has had a stroke’. By the time my bed-hair’d, half-pajam...
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Ed Ruscha's Los Angeles roof-top series, part of the Portrait of a City exhibition of 20th-century American photography at the Dulwich Picture Gallery.
“As soon as a [scientific] discovery is made, an application is sought. Capital becomes interested and it enters the public domain before anyone has had a chance to reckon all the consequences."~ Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society
I need a word to describe what it feels like when someone quotes you to support a position you vehemently disagree with. Other than ugh. A longer word.
As we recall the trauma caused by COVID in 2020, we should not forget COVID continues to harm. Many still suffer from Long COVID, people who mask are often harassed, and we haven’t scaled clean air infrastructure. If we truly acknowledge past harms, we should be working to create a better future.
I’m hoping empathy hasn’t been destroyed but has instead been stockpiled in a disused factory that someone will stumble upon one day and distribute.
A month ago, my new essay Who Are The Fire Tamers? about the secret world of traditional French healers, Sontag, Bachelard, bodies and medical care, was published in @aeon.co. Since, I've been contacted by readers from around the world. Today, this beautiful comment was left. aeon.co/essays/who-a...
If you’re trying to rediscover your love of reading, you should probably start by reading something you’re going to love. It doesn’t have to be a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, just something you will enjoy.