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May 17

67. READ.LOOK.THINK.

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

READ: On making a living at writing, and why and why not to try to do it: Emily Magazine. | “This is an essential quality of hats: they announce one’s desire to be unannounced. A hat is an advertisement for a disguise.” | Molly Lambert’s Mad Men recaps. | “She figured that loneliness lay at the heart of nearly all mental illness and that the lonely person was just about the most terrifying spectacle in the world.” | To be seen, to be heard: Roxanne Gay reviews Erica Lorraine Scheidt’s Uses For Boys.

LOOK: A collection of dancing leaves. | We Need a Horse, a kids’ book by Sheila Heti (pdf) | Present Journal, a tumblr. | Remember Hilary and Jackie? I loved this film. | The Petite Kitchen sugar free recipes always seem SO much nicer than the #iqs ones. Not that I am even attempting to quit sugar, being a complete willpower-free zone. | First Position: a ballet documentary. | I finally got the courage to look at our wedding photos.

THINK: Brave and strong Angelina Jolie. We never really know what is happening in another person’s life. | Female representation in films is at its lowest level in five years. | The joy of accounting: some tips for all freelancers but especially UK ones from Kris Atomic. | Michaela McGuire on one of the worst parts of Twitter: people tweeting at each other about how they’re angry about the same thing. | Artists using social media have transformed the notion of a “work” from a series of isolated projects to a constant broadcast of one’s artistic identity as a recognisable, unique brand.

LINKNESS: My wrap up of the week’s top strategy + creativity + marketing reads on Nextness.

May 15

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Four months later.

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At first I didn’t look at them because we went to Australia. Then I told everyone I couldn’t get them onto my Mac Air, but that was sort of a lie and really I was just too scared to go through them. What if they didn’t match up to how perfect everything was in my mind?

(When I say perfect, I don’t mean wedding blog-perfect. For one thing, gorgeous Hackney Town Hall was covered in ugly scaffolding like an awkward teen with braces. It was so cold and windy our umbrellas turned inside out going from the ceremony to the reception. And I had just found out I was pregnant, so I couldn’t drink any of the wine! But it was just so happy.)

Anyway, four months later, I’ve looked. The wedding photos are beautiful. Thank you Jonathon.

May 10

66. READ.LOOK.THINK.

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Today, a short READ.LOOK.THINK: Lost cat. | “Becoming an old woman has been a sexually liberating experience for me. It has given me, among other things, a great ability to love generously, since I am not impelled to act out that love.” | Anne Frank’s diary isn’t pornographic. | Judd Apatow vs. Miranda July. | Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year by Anne Lamott. | Australian Writers Guild launches new TV drama screenwriting competition. |”Should we be in the business of ranking whose experience gets to count as such? Or which is more valuable, worthy, creative? And who gets to be such an arbiter?” | A quick post on Google Reader, RSS and blog housekeeping with the shut down of Reader only 50 days away.

LINKNESS: My wrap up of the week’s top strategy + creativity + marketing reads on Nextness.

May 9

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Google Reader, RSS and blog housekeeping.

Impending RSS disaster and Dark Age.

I follow loads of RSS feeds for fun and for work, and all year I have felt smug about what I consider my clever set up of them (Google Reader in Firefox for personal, Chrome for work; a combo of Instapaper and Buffer and Twitter and Google Bookmarks to keep track of everything). But disaster has struck. While it’s happy to bore us to death with things we don’t want, Google has removed support from Reader and will be shutting it down in July.

I am currently trialling a solution that involves Feedbin ($2 a month! I would be happy to pay that to Google if only they’d take it) and Reeder. My hope is that by funneling Feedbin through Reeder I will get its smooth, efficient reading experience without its grey-paletted ugliness. Other people have found good (free) replacements in the form of The Old Reader and Feedly.

As for following my blog and READ.LOOK.THINK, there are three options in addition to the full RSS feed:

  • My mailing list. Only once a week, only READ.LOOK.THINK. Sign up here; this is what it looks like.
  • Facebook. One link a week, only to READ.LOOK.THINK. Like on FB.
  • Bloglovin.’ (I really don’t know what this is at all.)

Do tell me if you hear of a good RSS reader between now and July. I have high hopes for Digg’s, and you can sign up to be notified when it’s ready.

May 3

65. READ.LOOK.THINK.

Violet

And just like that, winter was gone, and life had some beauty and meaning again! London, you are a place of extremes.

READ: “Real life, perhaps, was waiting for me on the other side of the web browser…” Back online after a year without the internet. | No surprise that I loved The Woman Upstairs. It felt very Margaret Drabble or Fay Weldon to me, the type of stuff I binged on in high school. Claire Messud gets angry. | Dialogue is just two monologues clashing and speech is structured in a way that allows interruption. | SAVE NOTHING. | Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig search for happiness. A profile in The New Yorker. | Men never ask what they should call women’s pain, so they call us crazy.

LOOK: The Cowgirl Way on Miss Moss. | Ricotta dip with garlic, thyme, chilli and lemon zest. | Some photos of my April.

THINK: The Hillsborough Stadium disaster and the Boston Marathon bombing: “disaster will never be separate from your experience of the disaster” in Grantland. | How the internet influences what we wear. | ” the internalised misogyny that allows you to assume, without questioning, that self-actualisation cannot simultaneously include mothering.” | Early dialogue between parents, children stems teen smoking. | Is this the real reason why I’m not on it? Hardcore narcissists are put off by Facebook because it reveals that they are not the center of everyone else’s universe. | Homes for sale in Britain for one pound. | What nobody remembers about new motherhood. | Alpha women: how feminism created a new class divide. | No one, male or female, should be ashamed of leaving the workforce.

LINKNESS: My wrap up of the week’s top strategy + creativity + marketing reads on Nextness.

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