← 2021 November 2021
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“Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.”
– Buckminster Fuller
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Thought I’d share something I’m proud of today: I’ve consolidated all of our family’s brands and business ventures under the one website/domain name: withers.co
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We’re proud to announce that we’re expecting. Santa that is. We’re expecting Santa.
I also told Luna this week that Santa’s not alive any more, but people dress up like him … soooo I’m a great person.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but we don't use whisky stones, save your money
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Epidemiologists: Omicron’s not a big deal guys. News media: NEW FLESH, LET’S GO BABY!
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1859 or 2021?
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness…”
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Finally, ScoMo will keep me safe from you all.
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We’ll that’s the last time I try to rent a hit man through RentAHitman.com, the guy behind it just forwards all the enquiries to the police and they aren’t proper hitmen. shout out to all the hitladies that also feel excluded.
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Business idea: drone birth photography.
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Britt: You’re not going to be able to get the cactus inside once you’ve repotted it. Me: Trust me honey, I’ve got this. Narrator: And yet he did not have “this.”
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Got fizzy photographs // documented the build of Hard Fizz’s first home here on the Gold Coast.
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#toiletsofthegoldcoast #hardfizzhq
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My secret superpower is telling people that the lyrics in the chorus of George Ezra's Budapest are “I'd leave it all”.
Welcome to the Withers Cinematic Universe.
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What’s the @qldpolice definition of illegal littering?
Because every week a kid drives past my house and throws this rubbish on my driveway.
And is it the driver littering, their employer, or @woolworths, @TAFEQld, @bunnings, @JBHiFi and co?
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I'm on a conference call right now with Dally Messenger and other leaders of the celebrant community with the Attorney-General’s office, and he's made a big claim: That people who aren't Australian First Nations, or Jewish or other religions, don't have a culture. Thoughts?
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A tale of two burghers
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One of the best things about working in the wedding industry through Covid is that I've finally become the disappointment my step-mother said I was. #kickinggoals
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I turn 40 in a few weeks. There was a time where I never believed I'd make it past 21 as I saw friends and people around me dropping like flies.
Between 21 and 39 I mostly felt immortal.
But for the past year all I have thought about is what will happen to my blog when I die.
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There's a new Terminal command in macOS Monterey: networkquality.
It’s an internet speed test in the terminal.
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Is this how Apple News is supposed to work? I make an active decision to not engage with content from a certain brand, and in its place I just get a full page notice that I’ve chosen to not engage with that brand?
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I don’t know who need to hear this, but the young male voice that says “Welcome to McDonalds, we’ll be with you in a moment” as you pull up at a McDonalds drive through is a pre-recorded message.
You don’t need to say “thanks” like I do each time.
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“Most people in life want one-of-a-kind outcomes.
The problem is, in the quest to get there, most people follow the same path as everyone else.
Lesson: If you want an n-of-1 result, don’t take the 1-of-n road.”
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You need to know about, and install the Shortcut for, 12ft.io if you browse the webs and don't want to have a subscription to every flipping news website on the planet.
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Presenting the Hard Fizz HQ Gold Coast toilets … shot for zero 9.
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Taking expressions of interest in a Slightly Interested Koalas Yacht Club from any of you that have too much money.
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“Over the last couple of years, governments have been telling Australians what to do, now there has been a need for that as we have gone through the pandemic, but the time is now to start rolling all of that back.”
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If you’re waiting for a sign …
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“I realised that anything I did long enough to master was no longer useful to me.”
– Designer, Milton Glasser
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A mate mentioned pirating software and it took me right back to 20 years ago where we had a keygen or a hack or serial number for ecverything.
They really were the good ol days, access to the world's software, entertainment, and media, the only cost was time, so much time waiting for the painfully slow internet to bring you the goods.
It’s a hard position to advocate for - piracy - but letting kids have free access to software created a generation of modern creatives and tech professionals. Back then, to learn Photoshop or CAD or programming we’d pirate it, now you’ve got to pony up dollars every month. How do kids today learn this stuff without paying thousands of dollars they don’t havre for it?
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This thread on antivaxx rings so true right now in my own life 🧵
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"Rich people need it. Poor people have it. If you eat it, you die. And when you die, you take it with you. What is it?”
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The “Simple Sabotage Field Manual,” declassified in 2008 and available on the CIA’s website, provided instructions for how everyday people could help the Allies weaken their country by reducing productivity.
Sounds like a regular office.
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Introducing Luna to the great Australian tradition of running through sprinklers naked in summer
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I’m not an anti-vaxxer I just enjoy typing those five words to trigger you.
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Currently reading: Inside Steve's Brain by Leander Kahney 📚
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Will driverless cars do burnouts?
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It’s cool that there’s a Catwoman, Batman, and Spider-Man, but where’s all the stories about Possumperson, Koalaman, and Wombatwoman?
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Reminder today of the best coffee I’ve ever drink in the whole planet, two years ago in Tokyo: Sarutahiko Coffee, outside a train station. Their classic French blend will forever be my gold standard for coffee.
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Seven years ago since Kim Kardashian broke the internet. Hopefully they'll start fixing it soon.
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Is this like climate change? How long have they been recording it? And by what measure do they define it being good or bad? I have so many questions.
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1991 tech ad from Brashs
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What's the best New York street?
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If I can be real for a bit, I find it extremely disconcerting that the unvaccinated are being treated like this. Seriously. It's scary how a society and government can decide to ostracise like this. Imagine if it was the same thing on a different vector.
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“Doing small things with love is the atom of bravery.”
— Mark Nepo
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Listening to radio on the Sunshine Coast and the announcer plays three grabs of three songs then says “find out which one we’re going to play after the break” so it’s good to know they’ve not invented any new ideas for daytime radio.
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Proposal: Reclassify the Logan Hyperdome to a Logan Dome.
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"Most people optimise for the day ahead. A few people optimise for 1-2 years ahead. Almost nobody optimises for 3-4 years ahead (or longer).
The person who is willing to delay gratification longer than most reduces competition and gains a decisive advantage.
Patience is power."
– James Clear
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Something no-one talks about is how if you’re really cool in the metaverse, you’re actually not really cool in real life.
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Just minted an NFT of the current vibe in my house after I’ve sole-parented all day. Critics are calling it a “hollowed out tree trunk of a man”, others are saying “I would not spend 1eth on that.”
Available now on OpenSea.
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I don’t want to be Elon Musk Rich, I just want to be Extra Guac Even If I’m Not Sure Rich. I
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Cool story
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The year is 2051. All of us but the elite are working for below minimum wage in the Farmville metaverse tending to digital crops and feeding metaverse animals in overseas countries so we have a metaverse visa to access a different metaverse than the one our parents were in.
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Local barista wrapped up our conversation saying “see you next week!”
Am I allowed back tomorrow because I assume she works on a Sunday to Saturday calendar where I personally see Monday as the first day of the week?
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It was an overcast morning for shooting the build of the new restaurant at Kirra Pavilion but they wanted it to look bright and sunny.
Lightroom is evil, and its new sky selection tool is even naughtier.
Editing the image in three screenshots …
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In the metaverse there are no clothes. Just pixels.
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Proud of you Scotty, you’ve now written 100% more books than most other people on the planet. You join the ranks of Seth Godin, the Apostle Paul, John Green, Stephen King, and of course Nick Earls. Party on, Wayne 🤘🏻
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Sharing a little highlight gallery from a property I'm documenting for Zero 9 Constructions. We're a few weeks away from handover at this stage.
I’m kind of in love with this Japanese style soaking tub.
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If our parents disown us in real life do they disown us in the metaverse?
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Shoot day for a bunch of Gold Coast businesses today
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Please do not worship me, but I just wound up a dish cloth tightly and whipped a fly to its death.
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Age groupings
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Imagine being on the Q train from Brooklyn into Manhattan, a regular Tuesday morning in September 2001, the train comes above ground and the World Trade Towers are just on fire then it sinks underground again and you don’t know what’s going on.
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Snapper Rocks
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One of my earliest memories - and there's only a few from this traumatic time in my life - is watching my new step-mother, Selena, pile up all of our childhood photos, memories of my mother, and the family before Selena arrived, and burn them in the backyard. It was quite ceremonial and I imagine it must have felt quite nice for her. But I've always wondered what the significance was.
Burning the photos didn't make my mother burn, despite her absence at the time, but it wasn't until later in life that I recognised what she was burning: my story.
My first camera was a Nokia 7600 with an almighty 0.3 megapixel sensor and the magic of capturing photos overcame me.
Which leads me to today.
I make photos today, they're ok, but I'm really interested in discovering how photos matter to people, how my photos can matter to people, and if they would.
My plan
The plan is to document these learnings, what I've experienced and learned so far, dive into equipment, techniques, and talk about money, in an email/blog called "Shudder Speed" and you can subscribe, all free, shudderspeed.co
I'll share what I've learned, ask questions of my friends that are practising photographers, and reach out to strangers to ask the same questions.
Sometime in the next decade or so maybe I'll figure out how to make photos that matter to people other than me, and I'd love to drag you along for the ride.
I've been lucky enough to create weddings all over the globe and I've been trying to make photos that matter that entire time. Generally speaking I've been mostly unsuccessful at reaching this goal, but the few times one of my photos has mattered to someone will be documented in upcoming emails.
I'm still creating weddings and elopements, and intend to continue until people stop asking me to.
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How do floorboards work?
Like, if your toddler vomits and there’s vomit between the floorboards, is that no longer my responsibility now that it’s out of my paper towel’s reach?
What are the floorboard rules?
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Real talk fam, are people really paying $50 or $75 a month for LinkedIn?
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A little demo of Adobe Photoshop 2022’s Neural filter on one of my photos
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Qantas: Yeah, look, there's been a slight delay with your flight, you're going to be four weeks late …
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I hope one day I can look back on my life and say I was wrong more than I was right.
That will mean I wasn’t on the sidelines, but I was on the field, fighting, having a go. I’ll not be proud of being wrong, but admitting it when I am.
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That distinctive, earthy odour that is associated with rainfall is called petrichor. When raindrops land on a porous surface, air from the pores forms small bubbles, which float to the surface and release aerosols. Such aerosols carry a scent as well as bacteria and viruses from the soil. The scent is called petrichor.
Via the very good Dense Discovery email.
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“I heard that Warren Buffett addresses the early drafts of his shareholder letters to his sister, Dorothy. Once he finishes it, he replaces her name with "Shareholders."
The lesson: Writing for a huge audience is a fast track to getting writer's block, so write for one person instead.”
via Monday Musings
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How I’m feeling through this season:
“Each time you stopped, you would descend into a depression, believing that you had hit a wall and lost the ability to work, that you would never work again.”
From: The life and the work are equally important - by Shaun Usher
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Can you believe that we’ve turned Australia off and on again a few times, but we still have this silly Melbourne Cup virus running around our system.
Surely after the last two years we could of learned how to get drunk and eat roast chicken without needlessly killing horses?
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Boy, am I feeling this after the last two years of hell in my business.
Tim Ferriss tells the crowd at South by Southwest in 2007 that:
“their professional lives were unsustainable, and that they should consider doing something more interesting with their time.”
I've never been more interested in quitting work and becoming that crazy man that lives in the bush.
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Netflix says 142 million households have watched Squid Games. Wikipedia says there are 2,178 million “households” in the world. So, 6.5% of the households have seen the most popular Netflix show ever.
You don't need to win everyone, you just need to win a few. Be unpopular. Be niche.
