Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s Geordie beaches

Originally published 25 years ago, the revised and expanded edition of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s Writing in the Sand from Dewi Lewis Publishing reintroduces the lively, eccentric spirit of Geordie beachgoers into the present. With a deft balance of nostalgia and immediacy, Michael Grieve writes that Konttinen’s photographs not only celebrate the quirky nuances and contradictions of working-class life but also reveal an awkward yet tender relationship with the beach – a place both distant and intimate.

1000 Words

Another from my 1000 words series. This is my friend and model Robert Robles at Cowtown Keeylocko outside of Tucson, Arizona. His cousin bought a print of this and titled it "Bobby and the Pigs"

#1000words #bwphotography #CowtownKeeylocko

In 2014, my friend Pia did three photoshoots with me for my 1000 words series. The goal was for each image to inspire the viewer to make up a story about it.

#photography #1000words

#Ladies and #gentlemen of #photography, I present to you all my very first intensionally developed #carbonprint. It is 2 #washers and a #screw. I know normal #photos are #1000words long. This one is more #abstract. Like 5 #words or less. You can see the sensual curvature of 2 washes facing each other near the center where the shadow of a screw meets them in the still #wet #buggery #glop.

Days 6 and 7 Complete!
#1000Words every day for 30 days

Here’s a quote from Psychologist Angela Duckworth that captures what I wrote about:

"Rather than being better at overcoming temptation through heroic feats of willpower, individuals with high self-control are better at arranging their lives so as to avoid encountering it in the first place."

https://medium.com/@nathan.laundry/will-is-not-the-way-how-to-reduce-screen-time-with-the-science-of-nudges-841e44ee52fb?sk=cb0a43c1132bf2d42b0c9f3d95a546c3

I'd love to hear what you wrote about today!

#blog #Writing #blogging #30DayProject

Will is Not the Way — How to Actually Reduce Screentime with the Science of Nudges

Will is Not the Way: How to Reduce Screen-time with the Science of Nudges. “I hate my phone, but I cannot, for the life of me, put it down” — me circa 2022 averaging 4 hours of phone screen-time a day.

A Little Better

Day 5 Complete!

#1000Words every day for 30 days

Today I wrote a presentation for class on a paper called "Trend Analysis and Issue Prediction in Large-Scale Open Source Systems"

I won't lie, I wasn't particularly stoked about it, but I got to use presenterm - a terminal based markdown presentation tool which I love!

Take a look here: https://github.com/mfontanini/presenterm

I'd love to hear what you wrote about today!

#blog #30DayProject #Writing

GitHub - mfontanini/presenterm: A markdown terminal slideshow tool

A markdown terminal slideshow tool. Contribute to mfontanini/presenterm development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

1000 words per day challenge - Day 4 Complete!

I found myself thinking "well the first few days went well, why not up it to 1500 words??" Bad plan. Caught myself and wrote JUST 1000 words about it. I'll be sharing shortly :D

#1000words #30daychallenge #Writing

Another from my 1000 words series of B&W images.

#bwphotography #photography #1000words

Wrote a little thing called about the symposium Listening as a Compositional Tool, a couple of weeks ago at experimental sound studio Het Concreet in Tilburg. It's both in Dutch and - surprise - in English. #HearingTheUnheard #1000words

https://hetconcreet.com/het-ongehoorde-horen/

https://hetconcreet.com/hearing-the-unheard/

Het ongehoorde horen - HET CONCREET

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HET CONCREET