2019
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10 Years @ Thejaymo.net
So the site move is done. It took A LOT longer than expected due to the general crappiness of wordpress’s xml importer. I still have a quite a few things to do like move subscribers over from wordpress.com via jetpack, and have built up quite the list of CSS tweaks to work on – like…
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The Laughing Man (A Ghost Story) | 1930
My ghost story. As a child I was terrorised by the spirit ‘The Laughing Man’. What I did about it was my first act as a magician.
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105 :: βSolar Punk, a framework for hopeful futuresβ
When I was at Unsound Festival last week I bumped in to Journalist Jacobo GarcΓa from Spain based Clot Mag. He told me over the deafening noise of Dreamcrusher that an article based on an interview I did with him at Sonar+D Festival was now online.
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Unsound Festival 2019
It’s my second time in Krakow. It’s such a lovely city – wet & cold this year tho. Compared to glorious 20+ degrees last year it was a bit of a different experience.
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1Two Birthdays
I’m in Poland for Unsound Festival. I’m writing this from my hotel room. Full report next weekend. I
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I Think I Will Cause Problems On Purpose
I Bought Untitled Goose Game at 9am on launch day last week. I’ve been going on about it to anyone that will listen. Most ‘Gamers’ in my life think the whole premise sounds dumb. But really it is they who are dumb.
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Ritual and Storytelling | 1926
Our ancestors would struggle to see mythology as separate from ritual.
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It Was Simple Enough
Yeah Boi! 101 posts! I thought it might be fun to go back to post 000 from back in the heady days of my late 20’s and review: its july 2012 and i turn 27 this month. i thought maybe its about time i started a blog.. 000: seems simple enough Good for you. Why don’t…
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Start Select Reset Zine β Your Attention Is Sovereign
This first zine is a collection of transcripts on the attention economy, social media, and device use that have emerged as a recurring thread thought making permanently moved in the last 18 months.
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Words Words Words | 1923
Writing, How much effort a creative practice requires, The need to tell our own stories, and be supportive of one another.
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Double Donald’d
I was hoping to round out this week with a DIY repair success. This morning I tried to replace the broken USB port on my Blue Yeti Microphone.
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The Internet Isnβt All One Thing | 1922
Half articulated thoughts on Waldenponding, literal content and UX verticality, the demands of the attention economy and why return to the Isles of blogging.
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Fracking Whitney
Last weeks podcast was about ‘cultural fracking’ and how the purveyors and controllers of mass media culture can only continue to make money by fracking the past. Content from a time when mass culture still existed. As their business model relies on their audience being inside a shared reality or shared cultural grammar. When I…