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)
Global Fridge Poetry
Imagine playing fridge poetry with the world. Enter playhtml.fun/fridge.
Visual Rambling
visualrambling.space is a personal project by Damar, someone who loves to learn about different topics and rambling about them visually. What a delight.
(via namedotcom)
Crawl
I enjoy the subtle animations by Pablo Delcan in this music video for singer and songwriter Gabriel Garzón-Montano.
Retro Phone for Smartphone
Yep, I’d totally use this.
