HeyJaredOr So Ben Thought
Notes, analysis and flights of fancy through culture, technology, sustainability and play
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Fingertip feel (opens the original)
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A short intro to a medium-length edition (5 mins).Let’s go!Some culture-based bobbitsIan Ravenscroft visited Puy du Fou, which is wonderfully French and full-bore bonkers: Hydraulics. Trees. Swords. Fire. I liked his notes, e.g. the person holding the map has a very different experience.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I0c0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3
Yes is more (opens the original)
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The Freakonomics podcast had me thinking about oxymorons. Those concepts whose constituent parts are mutually exclusive, e.g. utopian pragmatism. The architect Bjarke Ingels claims they are his secret sauce and the challenge of bringing two impossible elements together leads us to create unique and brilliant things. He has a book called “Yes is more”.Oh, and the Danish for “design” is formgivning, or form giving, or giving form to the future, to unborn ideas. Which is nice.Here are some thoughts
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