Recent Links 2024-05-13

May 13, 2024

Quick catch up on some of my saved bookmarks from recent weeks. If you’re going to read anything, read Liz Truss’s certifiable bat skit though.

Creativity

Releasing (myself from) music: “These days, I see a piece of music as an assemblage of social relations.” – useful stuff from Polinski to try to move from creations as “things” to creativity as “ongoing existence” (my terms).
An Interview with Adam Rolston – on “joyspaces” vs “junkspaces”, and the value of a sense of history – the terms also remind me of the Shinto idea that certain spaces invite certain spirits to inhabit them.
ZX Spectrum Game Rebroadcasted On Slovenian FM Radio After 40 Years For Users To Tape & Play
Serious Games Cookbook: A beginner’s guide to using and designing serious games
Eurovision: What does the UK have to do to win? – a critical look at Olly’s entry this year, but also a good general guide to what Eurovision success requires, out to broader ideas of why we engage with content more generally these days, which hooks oddly back to Polinski’s piece above.
1-Bit Tutorials | Yelta – because I’m enjoying Pulp development a fair bit at the moment and want to get better at graphics.

Futures

The west is suffering from its own success

“To describe something as a problem of success isn’t to minimise it. Rather the opposite. Problems of success are harder to fix because, almost by definition, you wouldn’t want to remove the underlying causes of them.”