Sam Wilson's Journal
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The documenting of how we live, where we live, what we do — that’s what I’m interested in. And it’s a waste of time, really, in that it doesn’t contribute to any of those things (oh, of course that’s simplifying it too much; oh well). It’s also necessary to live, to be of the world, [...]
[Keywords: community, dichotomy, documentation, Making, modernity, recording, Wikis] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Bloggers unite. Today is blog action day, when we write about ‘the environment’ in order to ‘save it’. Oh yeah. Tom Worthington calls for less emails; but I concur with Paul Kingsnorth, and say: smash your computer and lock on to the nearest airport check-in counter! (I might say that, but I’m more inclined to [...]
[Keywords: A Place of One's Own, air travel, blog action day, Making, sewing, social networking, Transport] [One comment] [Permanent link]
Just to intersperse this stream of codeish posts with something a little more real… I rode part of the way to work today, and then put my bicycle on the bus for the remainder of the journey. (An odd feeling, looking through the bus’ windscreen and seeing my little bike all alone out there, bobbing [...]
[Keywords: Bicycle, craft, Making, technology, Transport, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
All has gone well, since my last post, with my intra-office carlessness. My announcement (“I don’t go in cars; don’t ask me to.”) has been met with near universal acceptance (or silence), to my great relief. I had wondered whether the conversations in the tea-room about various cars’ power-ratings and other such motorcar trivia would [...]
[Keywords: A Place of One's Own, cars, dichotomy, Making, Woodworking, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I am unsure as to just how wise this whole online journaling idea is, and yet I feel drawn to it time and time again. Why on Earth would I want the world to read what I have to write? Why do I not just write it in my [other, paper-and-ink, bound, real] journal? That’s [...]
[Keywords: Making, Uncategorised] [No comments] [Permanent link]
[Keywords: box, Making, visual diary, woodwork, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I won’t fill you in on the background of anything; I have to start sometime, and it might as well be now. The box is coming along well, better this afternoon once I gave up for the time being trying to make A Thing to cut trunnels. I turned instead to getting the bottom finished: [...]
[Keywords: boxes, Making, Truth to Materials, woodwork] [One comment] [Permanent link]
