Recommended
Sister Corita Kent’s Immaculate Heart College Art Department rules
Seth Grodin’s unconventional and clear-headed Advice for Authors: publishing is venture capital, and books are souvenirs of your ideas
Taking a photo every day: doesn’t matter what of, just carrying a tiny camera everywhere and getting into the noticing habit
The Design Police’s Visual Enforcement Kit of design warning labels, like KERN THIS and
BAD LOGO
Nina Simon’s splendid blog Museums 2.0, showing someone is thinking hard about museums and the Net (my favourite is the teen-mag-style flowquiz on how your museum should blog)
Some good tips from Ed Boyden on “How to Think”, including drawing while explaining and photographing the results; I’ve typeset them as a handy PDF
Buying a fresh brill from off the fishing boat, scaling, filleting, and frying it that same night in a white wine sauce; we called ours Brian
The moment when playing Spoon’s “The Underdog” on the ukulele (chords PDF) where you realise you’re not sure if this is about the other person, or about you—the test of a good bitter love song
My favourite photographer Peter Peryer’s plain-spoken and thoughtful blog, where he mulls over photos that didn’t make the cut. Why don’t all artists do this?
Migas made with good chorizo and old bread, both from the Farmer’s Market: a no-fuss weekend lunch for friends
