Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 21 August - 30 September 2023 Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. The reason why it's been about six weeks since you last heard from me is threefold. First, because I went to the UK for
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 11 August - 20 August 2023 Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I spent last weekend in Stockholm. My first visit to the capital in probably five years or so. It hasn’t changed too much
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 1 August - 10 August 2023 Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Thanks to the many of you who sent me kind messages last week about (a) my new website, and (b) my climate anxiety. It
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 21 July - 31 July 2023 Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I've just relaunched my personal website at duncangeere.com. My goal was essentially to create an index that links to my other work across
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 11 July - 20 July 2023 Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Are you familiar with the concept of pace layers? It's an invention of Stewart Brand, describing how society changes at different paces. The slowest
Inspiration Reading Layers Are you familiar with the concept of pace layers? It's an invention of Stewart Brand, describing how society changes at different paces. The slowest pace of change is nature, then culture, then governance, then infrastructure, then commerce, and finally fashion - which changes fastest. It's a concept I've found very
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 1 June - 10 July 2023 Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. It has been a little while since you heard from me, because I've been (a) on holiday and (b) at a conference. The holiday
Writing The City of the Future Looks Like a Former Military Bunker in Taipei Back in 2016, I wrote an article for How We Get To Next on an informal settlement called Treasure Hill, in Taiwan, that could be a prototype for the future of sustainable urban living. How We Get To Next is still online in archived format, but with bitrot being what
Dataviz How to engage audiences with climate data Recently, the kind folks at the European Journalism Centre asked me to appear on their Conversations With Data podcast, to talk about data and climate journalism. Alongside data journalist Pei Ying Loh from Kontinentalist, and visual journalist Rodolfo Almeida, we spent an hour dissecting what organisations and the media frequently
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 11 May - 30 May 2023 Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I've released a new script for the Monome Norns - a kind of open-source musical gameboy with a tonne of amazing free software developed
Dataviz Streetspace Invaders The Streetspace Invaders report that I worked on for Possible has just been published! We did freedom-of-information requests to all of London's local authorities to find out where they're siting their electric vehicle chargers - in the roadway, or on the pavement where they obstruct pedestrians. The responses revealed that
Sonification ufo: an ultra-low frequency oscillator powered by the ISS UFO is a script for the Monome Norns - a kind of open-source musical gameboy with a tonne of amazing free scripts developed by the community. The script uses the International Space Station (ISS) as a low-frequency oscillator, with a period of about 90 minutes. It grabs data from the
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 1 May - 10 May 2023 Hello friends, my name is Duncan and this is Hello From Duncan - a newsletter than I send every ten days or so, rounding up my recent creative input and output. Becasue you can't have the latter without the former. It's free, you're getting it because you signed up for
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 21 April - 30 April 2023 Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. For the last five years or so, the 11-year solar magnetic activity cycle has been at its lowest ebb. Now, however, it's starting to
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 11 April - 20 April 2023 Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. The lovely folks at Ableton have written up an article about data sonification and climate action, featuring quite a lot of the work I’
Tenday Notes Skåneleden Notes 1 Apr - 10 Apr 2023 Usually in the notes that I write every ten days, I round up my recent creative input and output. This time round, though, things are a bit different - over Easter I took a five-day walk through the forests of northern Skåne, so that's what this post is about. First
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 21 March - 30 March 2023 Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. The most clicked link from last time was to a set of badges that allow you to mark content as not created by AI.
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 11 March - 20 March 2023 Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Off the back of the excellent Designing Your System for Creativity workshop by Oliver Burkeman that I mentioned here a few months back, I've
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 1 March - 10 March 2023 Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. I've figured how to track how many links get clicked in these messages. So, stealing a trick from Quantum of Solazzo, I can exclusively
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 21 Feb - 28 Feb 2023 Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Short one this, as it's a short tenday period consisting of just eight days. THANKS FEBRUARY. I've not had a tonne of free time
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 11 Feb - 20 Feb 2023 Hello friends. My name is Duncan and this is Hello From Duncan - a regular roundup of my recent creative input and output. You're getting it because you signed up for it, and if you want to unsubscribe then you can do so any time with the link in the
Sonification Decibels Challenge: Objects Launched Into Space Decibels, the sonification community that I founded, runs a monthly challenge where a dataset or other assignment is provided and participants have two weeks to create a data sonification. The latest challenge was set by Ben Cooley. He picked Our World in Data's Objects Launched into Space dataset. I processed
Tenday Notes Tenday Notes 1 Feb - 10 Feb 2023 Every ten days or so, I share a quick digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. This is a short one, because I spent last weekend seeing friends in Gothenburg, and I'm spending this weekend in a lovely little town
Tenday Notes Month Notes - January 2023 Every ten days or so (a month in this case!), I share a digest of what I've been working on and reading. Here's the latest. More in the series here. Biggest news of the month is that we're making the Elevate Dataviz Learning Community more financially accessible for more people
Sonification Sonification in Eurorack The greatest joy of modular synthesizers is that you get to create a new instrument every time you sit down. You start with a bunch of modules that send and receive signals of a few basic types (triggers, gates, control voltage, audio), and you decide what goes where. You get
