💖 May Favourites 2023
Linguistic Tools, Auditory Illusions, Immersive Hobbies, Immortality, The Codification of Human Processes
🍿 My Favourite Movies of the Month
M3gan
The Invention of Lying
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
📺 My Favourite Shows of the Month
Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic
Sweet Magnolias
The Morning Show
Jury Duty
(Thanks for the recommendation Arman’s Antics!)
Cunk on Earth
📚 My Favourite Read of the Month
Do the weirdest thing that feels right.
🛠️ My Favourite Tools of the Month
Combo Punctuation
My favourite linguistic tool of the month is the interrobang. A combination of a question mark and a quotation mark used to pose an emphatic question.
Interrobang
Since I’ve been writing more lately, I’ve been enjoying taking linguistic liberties and breaking some of the grammatical rules I was taught in school.
I like to add a question mark to statements that start with “I wonder”. And I like to start sentences with And. And I’d like to play with fun punctuation like the interrobang. It’d also be fun to play with the question comma and exclamation comma some more too.
Exclamation & Question Comma
✏️ My Favourite Personal Creations of the Month
🎪 Spaces Designed for Better Breathing, Scratch and Sniff Photo Albums, & Caffeinated Corridors 🔗 / My Substack /
Mind your step as you enter the worlds of wide-eyed wonder, better breathing, and green medicine.
🎪 Spaces Designed for Anti-Socialites, Lamborghini Homes, & Treasure Rooms 🔗 / My Substack /
Mind your step as you enter the worlds of candy stores, branded homes, and anti-social architecture.
🎪 Enter the World of Spaces that Strip Identities & Possess Personalities 🔗 / My Substack /
Mind your step as you enter the worlds of Place-Personality Pendulums and Anonymity.
🎪 Enter the World of Battery Powered Places: Spaces that Restore our Energy 🔗 / My Substack /
Mind your step as you enter the world of unlimited energy 🪫→🔋
💪🏽 My Favourite Lifestyle Change of the Month
Immersive Hobbies
This month I asked myself what it would look like if I applied my life blocks to my interest in environmental psychology.
Exploring environmental psychology has been my academic obsession of choice lately 🧠 But I’ve been wanting to find more creative ways of engaging with it. And I found a fun solution!
You know how some of us organize our life into blocks: Body, Environment, Finance, Mind, Recreation, Social, Spiritual…
I wondered what it would look like if we branched our hobbies into other blocks. …If we added a social block to our writing habit or a mind block to our favourite sport.
I felt like I was spending too much time in my mind block, so I wanted to venture out.
So, these past few weeks I’ve toured local architecture studios, attended talks, played with architectural photography & woodworking, and I’m trying to learn to sketch like an industrial designer 🤹🏽♂️
I feel like I’m in uni again, rotating through a bunch of related classes.
I’ve even reframed my days into a curriculum filled with field trips, projects, practice, studies, & extracurriculars.
If a hobby needs a little jolt of novelty, try getting creative with the approach 💃🏽
💬 My Favourite Words of Wisdom of the Month
Role Models 🔗 / Tweet /
Validation 🔗 / Tweet /
🖼️ My Favourite Visuals of the Month
🤔 My Favourite Realization of the Month
Immortality
We can’t really know whether or not we’re immortal until we die.
What if you woke up in a world where 50% of people were immortal.
Nobody knowing whether they lucked out in longevity. And nobody ever aging to look older than 50.
How would that change your approach to life?
💭 My Favourite Reflection of the Month
My Codified Plant Based Function
How my software developer brain tackles his food philosophy:
🎥 My Favourite YouTuber of the Month
🧠 My Favourite Innovative Ideas of the Month
Auditory Illusions
Shadow Boxes
Popup Books
Multiplying by 11
What did you think of Jury Duty??