Hi. My name’s Chris Glass. This is a place where I journal with photos and save links for things I don’t want to forget.

Some Good Places to Start

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Now

Answering the question, “What are you up to right now?”

Updated Jan. 23, 2024

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Say Cheese

This tag is for all the times folks pose for the photo.

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The Chapters of Your Life

This started as a brief presentation about intent and photography that my good friend Erik turned into a short film as a birthday surprise during the pandemic.

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Creative Mornings Talk

This video from 2013 is long, but lays out who I am and why I think design is awesome. I was nervous as heck through the whole thing.

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A few favorite things

Books, movies, video games, music and random other things all mixed together in a visual, sortable grid.

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Great Discontent Interview

An old conversation that fills in the blanks of my career and whatnot in an interview format. My tip of the hat to Ryan and Tina for the moment.

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Browse

Been using this category thing to get around the photo journal. Adding here for easy access.

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My old website

I refuse to throw anything away (digitally at least). Here’s my old site cobbled together with spacer gifs and tables.

Recent Links

It’s all downhill after fifty

Another way to look at things... / via A Thousand Shades of Gray

thebloggess.substack.com

/ about / ideas / now

A searchable collection of 6400+ personal websites’ about, ideas and now pages. Love the sample searches that inspire exploration and prompts to make more thorough web pages. / via Chuck Grimmett

aboutideasnow.com

Museum Worthy

Promo for the Association of Independent Commercial Producers that captures the frustration of art direction. / via sidebar

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This is a thread about love

And how creativity should be valued, and sticking together — by Gary Taxali.

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Make better documents

A few paragraphs into this essay about enhancing messages in documents, Anil shares an animated gif from Joey Cherdarchuk that cleans up a table of data. It is mesmerizing like those videos of volunteer lawn trimming or deep car cleaning — I could watch them for hours.

anildash.com

Statue of Mary as Our Lady of Guadalupe

Billed as the world's largest, I would not drive 4 hours solely to see this statue, but I'd totally lop it on to a roadtrip that covered northeastern Ohio! / via Chris Martin

servantsofmary.org

CDK Dancers “Somebody That I Used to Know”

I caught a clip of this on the socials and wanted to know more but it was an aggregate that didn't attribute. I scrolled on but was very happy to see the entire choreographed piece on Colossal.

thisiscolossal.com

How Comics Were Made

This Kickstarter campaign is for a book about the history of how comics are produced. I've always wondered about the entire process and this looks to be a tome that shares insight.

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How to Read Poetry

Matt Haughey shares his favorite YouTube video from 2023. It's 11 minutes of Andrew Bashford explaining new ways to approach and experience poetry and it’s well worth the time.

a.wholelottanothing.org

My name’s Chris, this is Edie, and this is a place where I put stuff. In my spare time, I devise schemes to create more spare time. My goal with all this is to remember things, but also try and understand the patterns of life.

(That’s the grand idea — it’s usually just kind of ordinary, and that’s okay too.)

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