Field Study

I am a bit scared to share this, and that is very much the point.

In 2018, I am dedicating myself to doing new things,  very poorly, and sharing it as I go. I'm inviting you to join me. Welcome to Curiosity Club!

Imagine a river flowing down a hill. Your task is to change the course of that river. But the forces implicit in the relationship between water, an incline, and gravity mean that your job is going to be hard — really really hard. In order to divert the flow, you might start by damming it up. And again, science shows up, this time in the from of fluid dynamics and principles of flow and pressure, to make your work that much harder. Every brick, log, or levee you place only increases the intensity of your task. That river has a direction and destination in mind. And should you manage to change it, the form and flow of that river will become equally entrenched in the new path. Your work becomes a difficult process of displacing one path and forging another.

Now imagine a different task. This time, you are confronted by a large resevoir. No direction, no destination. Your task is to expand the pool. You can choose any length along the edge to dig downward and outward. As you dig, the gentle ebb and flow along the shore hardly disturbs your work. As you work the pool gets wider, deeper, and more dynamic — but the work itself never gets harder. The changing shape of the reservoir changes the behavior of the water within it, creating deep and dynamic pools in the center, calm and ever-changing eddies along the shore, and flowing liminal space between. Your task, laboring quietly and constantly at the edges of this fluid body, is an easy one.

Make more space. Add to the reservoir. Let it flow.

9 Masks for Introverts : This series is an exploration of introversion as an outsider identity. Many groups that carry outsider status adopt a uniform as a way of owning their outsider status and reflecting it back on the mainstream that, often, imposed that status on them in the first place. Those uniforms are both symbolic and functional. They reinforce and accommodate the identity for the wearer, and signal that identity to the observer. 

Some branding explorations for the newly launched Beme App. Far and away my favorite of all of these is the vomiting eyeball. Conceptually it fits the product, and I’ve always been attracted to metaphor of vomit to describe prolific creativity (as in this poster by Geoff McFetridge). Beme is about unedited, uninhibited expression. Spew what you see.  Get it here! https://beme.com/