@raynewman.bsky.social
He/him. From Bridgwater, in Bristol. Writer, editor, content designer. Ghost stories, films. No alt text = no repost. Not here for politics. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/raynewman Header: my book Intervals of Darkness https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DDR8X9QY
Now can we move onto solving this mystery: exactly when and why was a fake ghost sign painted on a wall at Borough?
ghostsigns.co.uk/2021/04/gett...
What a relief. This was genuinely bothering me.
Just reading about the US Centennial Exposition of 1876 at which was displayed the George Grant Difference Engine “which could perform twenty calculations a minute”.
museum curators describing literally any portrait of a woman: she boldly meets the viewer's eye, confronting our gaze
Had to struggle through the first ten minutes of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp but damned glad I did because dash it all if that film didn’t end up half-breaking my heart
If you support anti-Castro movements slash the mafia slash the KGB slash...
"Only one of its arms wriggled in the air, brandishing the victim like a feather"
From Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Art by Alphonse de Neuville.
A field trip to one place has generated field notes on a seaside town.
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after @richardmortimer.bsky.social
Good grief.
I've stitched myself up here: this notebook looks nice but has shiny waterproof space paper which won't take fountain pen ink. No fun at all. Might have to abandon it and start a fresh one.
People working in design who have heard of trauma-informed design but are not sure how to practice it, I think, primarily.
The book Rachel literally wrote is here, including a contribution from my pal Miriam Vaswani who introduced me to the term ‘trauma-informed design’ and taught me a lot about it when we were colleagues.
www.designedwithcare.org
It's quite a big deal for me that I've been asked to be part of this panel because Rachel literally wrote the book on trauma-informed content design. Anyway, if you work in content design, or human-centred design more generally, you might be interested.
workingincontent.com/growing/prog...
John Fitzgerald Christ.
From which I learnt that tourists like to have their photo taken on the spot where JFK was shot. Of course they do.
“This was no righteous quest... I was under no illusion that by my plodding steps I might knit back together the rupturing fabric of American society. I was just a curious North Dallas dad who wanted to see what lay between the cracks in the sidewalk.”
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
went to my childhood home recently and had a chance to sit down and really talk openly with the bogeyman in the basement. pretty decent guy actually and very sensitive. all those times he chased me up the stairs he just wanted connection. we did a pretend chase for old times sake
Some ills can only be remedied by a languid, surreal euro horror film that makes you feel like you've been smoking bad opium
I was just eating lunch outside and a car drove by with the windows rolled down blasting a traditional rendition of "Wild Mountain Thyme."
Wednesday.
See It, Say It ....
Such a handsome book about such a brilliant designer.
got a new tiny e-reader (xteink X4) that's slightly bigger than a credit card and I love it very much. Some custom sleep screens i added, too.
Pleased to see that someone has preserved and uploaded a photo of a Stop & Shop Video Center from the ‘90s. I probably rented hundreds of tapes and SNES games from a space that looked almost exactly like this.
Use code "THANKYOU" when checking out everywhere as it's a safe bet it'll work somewhere.
And by somewhere I mean in real shops to the checkout staff. And by "use" I mean saying it out loud to get the exclusive rewards of good vibes all round
Another hobby horse of mine is the amount of admin we expect people, including older vulnerable people, to do to manage deceptive patterns. For example, setting reminders to cancel a subscription before the free trial ends and they start getting automatically charged.
Wickes & Checkatrade sending me mother's day emails?!
From the remake of Seance on a Wet Afternoon. I like the cast, and it looks like they’ve kept the period setting.
"When services aren’t designed, humans become the connection layer... But humans shouldn’t have to be the glue. Services should be."
medium.com/@teropsv/ser...
So much institutional/societal 'accessibility' is performative and requires the disabled person to do *more*, and I'm so sick of it. People/places quite happy to tick a little box to say they're inclusive or accessible while clutching their pearls and looking outraged if they need to do something.