Seth’s Riff’s is a collection of kernels, notions and riffs from Seth Godin. What a treasure trove! GAH!
Collection of Vintage User-Interfaces
Whoa! A massive archive of old-school user-interface screenshots. As a former user-interface designer, this archive definitely put a smile on my face.
My Retro TVs
My Retro Tvs allows you to watch live television from different decades, as if you were currently living in that time, watching TV as normal.
You can choose any year from the decades starting in the 50s, up to the 2000s.
There are thousands of channels, including cartoons, sports, news, music. (The commercials alone make it worth tuning in.)
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Levels of Agency
“There are two kinds of people after dinner:
Those who ask, “Can I help?”
And those who are already doing the dishes.One sounds helpful.
One is.This plays out on every team every day. Don’t wait for permission. Do the dishes”
(Via Zack Klein)
Mini-apprenticeships with master artists in their studios, worldwide
VAWAA makes my heart sing. Imagine traveling to spend time with an artist, where they spend time teaching you their craft. In their home. Their studio. Mini-Apprenticeships with master artists.
I love what Geetika has built more than I can express with words. The care she pours into VAWAA is immense! And, most of all, VAWAA is a celebration of human creativity and connection.
Geetika is currently raising capital for her next phase of VAWAA. If you think that what she is building needs to exist in the world, please consider supporting her over on Wefunder. I am going to right after I hit send on this blog post.
Ragtime: Tiny Desk Concert
Now this is delightful. Thank you Melanie.
Brik.space
I am going to be spending way too much time on this website! Bring back the weird internet. I love you Brik.space. What weird tool are you going to build?
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You Need A (Gentle) Deadline!
Do you need an invitation to step away from the algorithm?
An invitation to reconnect with your creativity?
Cool. But you also need a deadline!
I got both: Cue RELEASE DAY!
Release Day just launched and 1,482 creative humans have already pledged to create something during the month of May and then release it on May 29th.
A month of creating?
I’ll be sketching and drawing in my sketch book ever day to reconnect with Art School Days Tina. My poet daughter aims to put together her second poetry book. And my partner Tim is finishing and releasing songs he’s never shared with the world.
Will you join? Go to creativemornings.com/releaseday and join us!
Thank you Creative Quests and Adobe for making this happen. My favorite activation in 18 years of running CreativeMornings!
Whale Eye
In October 2024, Rachel Moore had a close encounter with a humpback whale in French Polynesia and took these photos of the whale’s eye. Whoa!
(Via Kottke)
Future Me
FutureMe is a quiet little corner of the internet with a simple premise: you write an email to your future self, and the site delivers it later.
You choose the date—months or years from now—type out whatever’s on your mind, and hit send. Then you forget about it. At some point down the line, it shows up in your inbox like a message from a past version of you.
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Personal Encyclopedias
Using wiki software, old photos, family stories, bank transactions, social media posts, and an LLM to sift through everything to build a personal encyclopedia? Yes, please! whoami.wiki as an open source project. The encyclopedia is yours, it runs on your machine, your data stays with you, and any model can read it.
(via Jason)
The Lonely Funeral Project
“Two decades ago, some poets in the Netherlands decided that people not having anyone attend their funeral was an unacceptable ending for a human life. In 2001, a poet named Bart Droog began attending the funerals of people who had no one to attend them and honoring the dead with a poem based on whatever was known about their life. A year later, Dutch poet and artist Frank Starik took the idea even further, launching The Lonely Funeral project to ensure that someone who cares consciously acknowledges the life of a person who has died.
The idea was to create a network of poets who would find out whatever they could about the person, write a custom poem about their life and read it at their funeral. As of 2018, over 300 “lonely funerals” had been attended by poets in Amsterdam and Antwerp (where Flemish poet Maarten Inghels launched a Lonely Funeral project seven years after Starik’s).”
Read More about The Lonely Funeral
(via this article)
Worldwide Sidewalk Joy Map
Sidewalk Joy spots are free, curated public galleries, exchanges and displays. Installed in curb gardens, front yards or sides of buildings these projects were created to bring a bit of whimsy and inspiration to the community. Examples include Free Little Art Galleries, Puzzle Exchanges, Toy Swaps, year-round and often updated yard displays, Wishing Trees, and more!
Dog Rugs
These dog rugs by Emily O’Leary are weird and fascinating.
Protocol Cards
Protocolcards.com is a digital deck of evidence‑backed nervous system “protocols” you can pull up when you don’t know what to do with yourself.
(via Cool Tools)
Molly Guard
Old-school computing has a term “molly guard”: it’s the little plastic safety cover you have to move out of the way before you press some button of significance.
(via Chris)
The Thinking Game
The other day, Tim and I watched this documentary. (It’s free on Youtube) We were enthralled by the inside story of the AI breakthrough that won a Nobel Prize.
Erwin Wurm
Erwin Wurm’s absurd art makes my heart sing.
Painted Rocks
These painted rocks by Elizabeth Salocka delight me to no end.
Strong Communities and People Acting With Joy
“Authoritarians cannot rise if there are strong communities and people are acting with joy. That is, you need despair and anger in order for an authoritarian to rise. Whatever those things are that you bring to the community, do them and do them with joy, and don’t stop doing the things you love because you’re scared, because that actually is a form of resistance.”
– Heather Cox Richardson
This is one of the many reasons why I am running CreativeMornings and we started a Clubs program in addition to the chapter events. The future is not lonely, it’s hyperlocal!
Card Bar
Loving Ugmonk’s analog Card Bar. He explains how he uses it in this Instagram Post.
Grace Farms
Grace Farms in New Canaan Connecticut is a truly inspiring space, both aesthetically as well in their mission. Would love to bring CreativeMornings to this venue. More billionaires like this, please.
WikiFlix
Imagine if The Criterion Channel and Netflix had a baby, but the baby only streamed public-domain classics — and it was completely FREE. That’s WikiFlix.
It’s a clean, modern interface where you can scroll, search, and dive into a whole catalog of classic films, restored gems, silent-era legends, and old-school cinema history… all legally available because they’re in the public domain. No subscription, no account, no ads. Just movies.
(via MikeMixTape)