Carry On

Last May, I used a fountain pen for the first time.

Installation view, “Lisa Oppenheim: Monseiur Steichen,” MUDAM Luxembourg.

Given how much time I spend using a web browser, I wondered how accurate a portrait of my interests it might return.

Image: my most listened-to albums of 2024, though not all of them came out this year.

Five years ago today, I sent the first email to this list.

Last August, I wrote about breaking free from the Apple and Google maps duopoly, listing a handful of alternative apps then emerging.

No, that’s not a typo.

Since November, I’ve watched with interest as hundreds of bloggers have listed their default apps.

Four years ago today, I sent my first-ever newsletter and announced the launch of my personal website.

UPDATE, May 2024: For the past year I’ve worked with my friend, designer and developer Ross Zurowski, to build a new, expanded, and better version of Valise.

Artist Roni Horn once said, “Iceland is the place where I have the clearest view of myself and my relationship to the world.”

In graduate school I spent a fair amount of time researching how public spaces were used for political purposes during the Progressive Era.

I recently downloaded Flight Simulator, an “ambient travel app” from Soft Works, a small software company run by Laurel Schwulst and Dan Brewster.

It has been thirty-one days since I’ve gone out in the evening.

For more than two decades I have spent a few hours each week, every week, seeking out and listening to new records.

I don’t often make resolutions.

Today is my fortieth birthday.