just got two rolls of film back from the lab. one 35mm in black and white (on an olympus mju ii) and one hp5 on an hassleblad. haven’t downloaded the scans yet but the flick through looks good.

🔗 The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (Your Writing)

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (Your Writing) Go a week without

• very • rather • really • quite • so • of course • in fact

Benjamine Dreyer on Twitter Thought I’d share this as well to go along with that last bit of writing advice. “Of course” is one of those zombie phrases that still rises from my fingers no matter how many times I try to kill it… but that’s what editing is for…of course.

“Avoid the passive voice” is one of those bits of well-known writng advice that can go to far; sometimes, the passive voice is the best or only choice. And yet, changing from passive to active is one of the most common tasks I do when editing other people’s work. Maybe it’s not as well-known as I though.

Photo experiments on the train to Warsaw

The palace of science and culture in Warsaw.

🎥 Matt Day: Shooting Ilford’s NEW Ortho Plus | First Impressions!

A new Black and White film from Ilford…time to head to the local camera shop. (I think 120 film and shooting landscapes would probably be best for me).

Finished Reading : Morning Star by Pierce Brown.. 📚

We’ve just got home to our little flat in Wieliczka after a wonderful weekend in Warsaw - including a micro meetup with @danalcantara . It’s great to be home and I hope you’ll excuse me while I collapse.

On the train to Warsaw 🚊

Just had a nice email at work, so I saved it to my “praise” collection.

I’ve always felt conflicted about Bruce Guilden’s photography, but the interview with him by Magnum has made me appreciate him far more.

Another “urban sketching” experiment (I used a photo as it’s cold and I have a kid at home!) I made some mistakes with the first layer (too heavy paint in the sky not enough variation in the church) and I thought the foundation was terrible! But I think the end result is…okay. And I’ve learnt something so who cares.

One thing I wish was better with MB-hosted Micro.blogs...but then again

I really like MB-hosted micro.blog for the simplicity of publishing…but it’s not that easy to edit older posts. For example, if I wanted to write a list of authors I’m into right now, It would be tricky to find later. I could of course use a page — and that makes a lot of sense for this type of post…sorry, page. There are, however, occasions where I’d like more ways to revist old posts and update them. Then again, I never knew the best way to do this with WordPress: a new post, a note on the old post that it had been changed, just updating? Perhaps this is a bug which is a feature?

Podcast idea: Coffee conversation

No, it’s not a podcast about coffee…well not direclty. Here’s the pitch: I meet up with people I think are interesting and have a coffee with them, we record the conversation because maybe other people would like that.

But then again, it would probable be a bad podcast (noise of cups and sipping) and probably change the type of conversation…maybe I should just try and have a cup of coffee with interesting people.

I’m very excited about the possible Polish Micro Meetup this weekend in Warsaw.

Atomic Habits (Affiliate link) Is only 99p today in the UK kindle store. I just grabbed a copy even though I read it on paper last year.

Will the HomePod Ever Get an Update?

The HomePod is coming up on two years old, it had an A8 professor (5 years old) and there hasn’t been an update. I wonder if there’s something in the pipeline (maybe with a mini version?) or if Apple is just going to drop it.

The best way to notice a mistake is to call a file “Final” or publish something. Suddenly you notice way more mistakes. I swear it’s magic.