One of my freelance gigs is retouching photos for a beer brand and...

good lord yeah the marketing works on me. 🍺

Mini egg cookies

Can’t skip over the season without some Mini Eggs…

Curious, is there any common YouTube sponsor that you actually think is a great company/product?

A picture of a kid gaming in front of a TV, early 2000s.

Current photo of me working from home

"We can do no wrong and they can do no right" is such a toxic foundation to any belief.

Build on ideology... not identity.

A clipping from an article, reading "The Brennan Center for Justice, which sued to block Trump’s 2025 election executive order, said in a statement Tuesday: “Our government’s citizenship lists are incomplete and inaccurate. The United States Postal Service is overburdened and inadequate. This combines a car crash with a train wreck.”"

"This combines a car crash with a train wreck" goes unreasonably hard and will be added to my repertoire.

“My algorithm is really specific toda-“ oh I’ve been scrolling someone’s profile for 15 minutes.

Ad-supported paid tiers feel like price anchoring but in reverse—they just make every option feel like a bad deal.

“No spoilers but you’ll never expect the ending” is like 83% of a spoiler

A Firefox screenshot showing "Search Image with Google Lens" pixels above "Set Image as Desktop Background..."

It's like playing Operation every time you try to image search...

A screenshot of the artlist homepage, with the word "AI" on every possible category, banner, and callout.

Aspects of Artlist I've never used: AI
The homepage:

Fonts are like actors...

You see one too many uses of Space Grotesk and now it just feels wrong everywhere.

That's a perfect example of where I'd like to end up — glad it worked out for you! Definitely keen to find a system of balancing the reliability of a "day job" with more personal and deliberate creative endeavours.

Stand for one thing and you'll make an impact.

Stand for hundreds and you'll be ignored.

Rocks, with a distant doc and railed platform, birds sitting on it and in the sky.

A light sandy beach with a horizontally striated rock wall, with trees at the top.

A rocky/sandy beach with big trees and a tucked away wood house.

Sun peaking onto a rocky beach, with a tree blocking the foreground, and distant layered land and clouds in the back.

📍 Salt Spring Island (pt 2)

#photography #photo #fujifilm #canada #nature #bc

I kind of want to get out of design as my full-time job, but I have absolutely zero idea what direction I'd go.

A photo off the side of a ferry, with a weathered white railing and loudspeaker, and ocean and distant treed shoreline in the background.

A docked silver boat through the folliage, with a weathered dock and crane visible.

A marina with a white and blue boat front and center, shot through trees and blossoms.

An ocean photo with rocks and a seagull in the foreground, distant shore and sky.

📍 Salt Spring Island

#photography #photo #fujifilm #canada #bc

The amount of times in my life I've Google'd which keys ⌃ ⌥ ⌘ are must be in the hundreds.

Aka each time the shortcut I try isn't working.

Talking to me, about me, I’m in the way, there’s a once in a lifetime event…

2 herding dogs beside a golf cart, with a baby cow looking

I wish I brought my actual camera on this farm tour, the animals were posing it up like crazy

My favourite part of cameras are when you unknowingly bump some dial/setting and all your shots look weird for the next 3 months until you realize what it was

Project Hail Mary was one of my favourite books ever, but I'm not sure I can stand to have Ryan Gosling as the character in my head whenever I think of it.

Yeah, I quite enjoyed it! I like the grittier take on the world that Westerns have, and it definitely felt like it had solid writing and characters.

It must be a LinkedIn recession indicator when their emails switch from fake engagements to daily games to play.

I did a month of Paramount+ to watch the last season of Yellowstone but wow... they have absolutely no other shows/movies I want to watch at all.

A letter board displaying “PURPOSE IS BUILT”

Letter board of the week: PURPOSE IS BUILT

You don’t find your purpose by sitting around and waiting for it. Purpose is not the reason you start. It’s what grows after you commit.

That one is Black Purple!

A LAMY AL-star fountain pen and a LAMY AL-star rollerball pen.

New pens, who dis

An interior photo of a car, now featuring a CarPlay display

Music is back on the menu 🕺

Had to run the simulation to decide if it's worth fixing my speakers IRL.... it is.