Invention through intention.

Screenshot showing the Ping Practice “Capture” screen in blue theme.

back to blue

to have found the form that holds the meaning

every now and again, what i happen upon will be the basis for a contribution:

en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...

most often, i’ll screenshot/take a photos, forget about it, and then discover it later when i’m going back through photos for an unrelated reason

i wonder if this resonates!

…for me, it harmonizes with how i’ll often encounter something in the flow of reading that i want to hold onto

potentially with some actions:

1) add a source if one doesn’t exist

2) edit the text

3) integrate the text into an existing article

this way:
1) you could either revisit them your own

2) the “camera roll” could resurface individual captures back to you…maybe in the app’s existing explore feed?

im thinking: these captures would be timestamped, and for now, saved to your sandbox

(maybe there could be an optional step to generate a citation from the source’s metadata?)

to start, rather than capturing images, it’d default to parsing out the text from:
1) the source you’re holding in front of it
2) the screenshot you’re uploading to it

loose thought from the sky: a wikipedia camera

"...how technological experiences can be both lighter and more meaningful when they become intertwined with physical reality and natural rhythms."

inspired by @laurel.bsky.social [1] and @elliottetzkorn.com [ii]

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i. www.are.na/laurel-schwu...
ii. bsky.app/profile/elli...

out: directed experiences
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in: generative environments

out: external legibility
/
in: internal coherence

out: asking to start
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in: taking a step

out: knowing the path
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in: finding the ground

Lois Ehlert in “The Scraps Book”

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Eh...

A page from “The Scraps Book” (by Lois Ehlert) that reads, “Where do ideas come from anyway? I know I find ideas in the world around me.”

id like to remember that some of the most gorgeous songs started with humming

i like doing a rough sort right out of the dryer…big items and little loose ones

i think it’s brave to notice without yet knowing