I’m not sure you can get to nearly 50 and have not done a bunch of different things, some of them interesting, some of them no so much; some of them “successful”, some of them not so much. I’m also not sure that anyone else will necessarily give a crap, either – but I’m in the mood to gather these various bits together (see what I did there) and point to all of them from one place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, here are some of the things I’m fiddling with \/ have fiddled with \/ am involved in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I love printmaking<\/a>. I started learning a few years back, and did a bunch of courses with Adult Education, gaining various certificates along the way, then continued with my print tutor after that, before Covid bit us all on the arse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ve played piano, written music, been in bands and been in and around music<\/a> for my whole life. It’s one of those core things to me: like a leg, only probably slightly more important. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Ever since I was a kid, I’ve loved taking things apart and putting them back together again, or just making stuff from scratch. Along the way: a Chaos wheel, a water driven music generator, a sort of feedback speaker thing that I made while really stoned at uni, a complete obsession with virtual life (in particular simulations of ants), numerous Raspberry Pi fiddlings, and endless – and I mean endless – web ideas. I’m aiming to slowly get what I can online<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This stuff<\/a> includes writing, meditation, anything that doesn’t categorise terribly well elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thirty8 Digital<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Now 10 years old and still going strong, Thirty8 is “the day job”. We work with museums and other cultural organisations (although nowadays mostly museums) doing digital stuff for them: websites, consultancy, training. There’s lots more over at https:\/\/thirty8.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Museum Platform<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n TMP grew out of a moment about 2 years ago when I realised that we were saying no to lots of work at Thirty8 – mainly smaller jobs with smaller budgets. I really like small museums: I like their intimacy and local nature, and I like the people who work in them, too. So I got thinking about how or whether we could find a way to help them with digital stuff. The Museum Platform was born: it’s a product, a sort of SaaS, a platform… Find out more at https:\/\/themuseumplatform.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m not sure you can get to nearly 50 and have not done a bunch of different things, some of them interesting, some of them no so much; some of them “successful”, some of them not so much. I’m also not sure that anyone else will necessarily give a crap, either – but I’m in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Music bits<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Nerdy bits<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Misc bits<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Business bits<\/h3>\n\n\n\n