When I’m in the (glorious) middle. In the flow, catching the spark/fire, living momentum.
Top 10 Movies of 2023
For all you cinephiles out there, get excited, here’s my Top 10 movies of the year:
Barbieheimer
Cocaine Bear
Major League
Now looking forward to another year of amazing movies as I try to make more time to get back into film!
Hi Design Threads.
I’m an independent designer, activist, and collaborator working with other humans to move the needle. To make the world a tiny bit better through community building, criminal justice reform, climate action, and local organizing all whilst listening to music very loudly.
Wanna cowork? Pop-ins welcome.
Let’s go Monday!
Oh that time of year
When it all comes down to the wire. When all the balls that got dropped come bouncing back. When everybody needs everything they can get. Myself included. But I think the last few years have finally caught up with me. After having got through the pandemic and the election and whatever unprecedented event we’re currently experiencing, I’m just over it. No patience left. Annoyed. Used up. Beat to hell. Ready to put my head under the blanket and listen to music without any pings.
Late to the party
If there’s one way to describe the experience I’ve had with social media technology is that I’ve always been late to the fucking party. And I leave and come back often.
Everything
Everything looks like something else. Everything reminds us of something else. Anything and something else are best friends. There are only so many colors but yes I have more fonts. Thousands and thousands of them. You want them all? I’ll put them in a ZIP file and then I’ll head to the movies to watch something that will probably remind me of something else.
Bad Criteria
Over the years, there’s one thing that stands out as the thing clients do that really chaps my hide. It’s not urgent timelines, conflicting feedback, nor scope creep. While those things suck, the one thing I just can’t over is when a client holds up one really important thing that needs to be accomplished but then in the end, it turns out to not be a big deal at all.
It might be really particular analytics or it could be a really specific visual feeling they want to capture. Whatever it is, it maybe the thing driving the urgency, or the unwillingness to compromise, or the reason for the project in the first place.
And after sustained agony and an overall terrible process, the need for that thing all of a sudden disappears entirely.
The client didn’t need X after all because they were able to get over themselves and go with Y after putting everyone through the ringer.
It’s bad criteria. And no amount of talking about the bad criteria at the front end will suffice. Turns out, everyone involved just has to go through the shit for the bad criteria to finally get snuffed out. It’s probably just another example of typical human stubbornness. It’ll always be there because there’s always someone willing to go along for the ride.
