I’ve never been prouder to be a GAP shopper.

It takes a lot of courage to say: “We don’t care if you’re a pair of hot, conjoined twins, if you have money, we’ll sell you vintage tees.”

How progressive!

(via Creativity Online)

Work by: Peterson Milla Hooks

New video for work. I enjoyed this project because I got to recycle an old song that I had written and use the instrumental for the video. Rarely do I have such complete control and input over a project.

Odds are, if you’ve seen a Disney cartoon or even been to the movies or know anything about art, you know something about an arsenal tech artist. This is a video about a new exhibition at the Harrison Center City Gallery, celebrating Arsenal Tech’s 100 year legacy of contribution to the arts. 

I started my own “slow internet movement” years before NPR reported on it.

When I moved back to Nigeria two years ago, I had to suffer and yes, suffer the indignities of sluggish internet, further crippled by an epileptic power supply. Each bit and byte I downloaded proved a chore and I suddenly became more conscious of how I was spending my time online.

Do you have any idea how much data you use?

Check out this data calculator from ATT for an estimate.

I currently probably use about 10G of data a month, conservatively. Back in Nigeria, I was getting by on probably 1G. So I had to learn quickly how to conserve my data use. The result of that time was that I became very adept at downloading torrents, encoding/recoding mp3s/videos etc. into tiny, manageable files. 

When you’re forced to be selective in your media consumption, your choices can be revealing.

I found myself downloading less music and more software, ebooks, audiobooks and games. It was an awesome and fulfilling time, as I discovered new genres like science fiction and short stories, learned more about photoshop and audio editing and became enamored by indie video games.

I’m thinking about undertaking a voluntary data fast and cutting my data usage down to 1.5-2G/month.

That works out to about:

10 mins of video per day/3 songs/30 emails (plus attachments), 10 - 20 webpages, 10 text messages/day.

It’s not much of a sacrifice. But in comparison to the 10 - 15G I am currently swallowing every month, it pretty much makes me a data ascetic.

Excited to see where this takes me…and to see how long it takes before I fall into a beauty spiral on Vimeo from which I only emerge from 12 hours later.