mdh
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Comment · 9 months ago
Really liked both of these sites. Some great photos on there.
Comment · 9 months ago
https://ho.dges.online
I use it as a digital scrapbook of pictures, projects etc rather than a blog.
I clicked on a random sample of the links posted here and really enjoyed seeing the diversity of things people post about and the variety of designs the sites have.
Comment · 1 year ago
Working on restoring my late father-in-law's Lambretta scooter that he bought new in 1958 and rode all over Europe with my MIL before storing it away in a garage in the mid-60s. Frame and bodywork are solid and it's mechanically sound, but is very tired looking. Have disassembled it and am now stripping the faded and chipped paintwork off of everything ahead of a full respray.
Comment · 2 years ago
Sad news. '4 3 2 1' is one of my favourite novels with its variations on a theme of a single person's life. The same character's showing up in each thread but in totally different contexts worked particularly well.
Comment · 3 years ago
Thank you for sharing this. I have nothing but admiration for your resolve to turn your previous experience into a superpower.
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed (and agree with) the 'Photography In Plato's Cave' post.
Comment · 3 years ago
Love this. The colour Seoul series is my favourite, but all of the pictures are really interesting and engaging.
Comment · 3 years ago
https://ho.dges.online
Only pictures I made and commonplace book posts. I've tried long-form blogs in the past and just couldn't find a groove that was interesting enough (to me) to pursue. The pictures I've made however, have become a kind of notebook for things that have caught my eye or that have significance to me and mine. The commonplace posts capture things that have struck me as distilling wisdom or a useful perspective on life.
Comment · 3 years ago
Go to an art gallery and look at the art. See what you find beautiful, see what you find boring and see what you dislike. Don’t worry about understanding its deeper meaning - just see how you react. If you find something you like, google the artist and see what words get used in relation to their art, and google those terms to find other artists that cover similar ground. Feel your way forward based on what gives you joy, and don’t worry about what other people think: your personal reaction to art is all that counts.
Comment · 4 years ago
IMO, art may have those characteristics - good art will often obviously have >1 of those.
Art in its most basic form is anything that engages you beyond a strictly functional level.
Comment · 4 years ago
“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realise how seldom they actually do.”
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest.
Comment · 5 years ago
I love ‘In Our Time’ - it strikes a really good balance between being academic and accessible. The range of topics is so broad too that you find yourself learning about things you didn’t even know you wanted to learn about. For example, scrolling to a random point in the podcast feed, I see than in four weeks in Dec ‘18 there were episodes on the thirty years war, ‘Sir Gawain & The Green Knight’, the poor laws and Venus.
Bragg’s book ‘The Adventure of English’ is a good survey of the evolution of the English language too.
Comment · 5 years ago
Very cool. I like that the interface is super simple and it seems to do what it claims to do, both with objects and OCR.
It might help to have an explanation somewhere in the app to explain that documents get saved as pdfs and photos as JPEG’s. Took me a while to work it out.
Oh, and the app icon is really fun too!
Comment · 10 years ago
But all sports are bizarre if you boil them down in this way. They all rely on arbitrary limitation of participants or equipment to prevent them descending into a total free-for-all and becoming pointless. Its the same thing as art being about constraints - its having to deliver within certain 'arbitrary' bounds that make it a challenge and make it worthwhile.