I've been involved in a project at my church called 100 Day Bible Challenge. We're currently reading through 100 key parts of the Bible every day for 100 days and I am hoping to do a bit of daily artwork inspired by what we've read. Its been great so far- we have 360 people on the Facebook group and loads of discussions going on. Check the website for more details.

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The NDSM Wharf is a really cool place that has an old Shipyard building warehouse, which has been transformed into a skatepark and customised portacabins for 250+ artists. It's a really interesting/inspiring/random place to walk around if you are ever in Amsterdam.

Some photos I took from Picnic 11 in Amsterdam. The theme this year was 'Future cities- exploring global urbanisation and its impact on our cities, our societies and our lives.' At yoomee we developed the online networking tools and apps for the Festival, which was a really fun project to work on!

The Big Questions dashboard widget is a free download from the people at IDEO and TED, that shows a new question every day to get you thinking. It's been around for a few years and it's a great springboard for exploring ideas and possibilities.

My magazine would be a mix of creativity, ideas, art, faith, design, culture, inspiration, technology and stories. Which is actually what I'd like this blog to be about. Here's to posting more more intentionally and more regularly. Call it my new school year's resolution. 

 

A video of our trip to the French Alps, where we cycled, drank coffee, fell off our bikes (well, just Jon) and watched the Tour de France.

Some sketches I did last week whilst on holiday. Enjoyed getting away from emails and the internet, I should do it more often! 

On Saturday Bry and myself manned the balloon stall at Peace in the Park, Sheffield. The idea was to get people to write messages of peace, attach them to helium balloons and release them all together at 5pm. After a few sketchy moments transporting them across a field under a net we managed to do just that. It all turned out a bit sony bravia...

On Saturday my friend Joe was djing at a pub called the west end in Sheffield and I went along. Every so often he and a few mates take over the place and play music they like, mostly funk, jazz and good hiphop. I noticed that a lot of Gil Scott Heron was being played, and that was the first that I heard he had died.

I only got into his music a few years ago after discovering some tracks on muxtape. His gravely voice, poetry and soulful way of telling stories really stood out to me. Hearing him talk in interviews you can tell that he was a man who had experienced a lot of life. I heard that on his last album "I'm new here" they kept the microphone on all the time and and many of his conversations ended up on the final record. He was poetic without trying, and there was a realness that saw through the culture of the day. He painted amazing pictures of broken situations and people he came into contact with. He was pretty broken himself too, and maybe it was all the drugs and stuff that caught up with him in the end.

I hope my voice sounds like his in 40 years, but I'm guessing as I'm a tall skinny non smoking white english guy it won't! I also hope I have a bit more hope, that when I talk of home I have something more positive to say than this.

Just got hold of two 1 Terabyte Western Digital Passport drives for Time Machine backups on my mac. The plan is to have one at work and one at home and swap them every few days. I am amazed at the size - Moore's law in action.