aspire to enquire

Time to make a plan

I'll save the full 'it's been a funny year' post for next month, but, well, it's been a funny year. A year where I've realised that the 'business plan' my generation was brought up expecting probably isn't going to work out, a year where I've questioned my own perceptions of success and achievement.

I've kind of realised I need to get on with life now. Under the circumstances I have, not the ones that might eventually present themselves.

Art by Friedrich Kunath, via Natalie Olah

I also realised that although I know there's loads I don't know about lots and lots of things, I'm never going to find out about them if I don't just get stuck in.

So by means of setting things down so that I have to do them, I've decided (in no specific order) to list the things I intend to do with my next ten years:

• Make a home
• Launch a lifestyle & hospitality brand
• Start a family (and add to the one I have)
• Use my passions and what I know to change something
• Make more music

Some are more nebulous than others, and some don't lend themselves to getting started right away. That leaves a couple that I really should be getting on with right now.

More on those soon.

 

 

 

 

Convoy

It's a great feeling to come across a blog that so completely sums up your own state of mind at that time. I have a tendency to forget what they were called (there was a beautiful black and white photography blog I'd love to find again), which is the unfortunate and ironic side-effect of the way we tend to find these kinds of things, aimlessly clicking through from one picture blog to the next. 

When you eventually find something you like, it's far too easy to click away from it on promise of something even better.

So I'm saving Convoy and telling everyone I can about it. It's a super-extensive collection of pictures of beautiful things, environments and people. It's an aspiration to the kinds of 'lifestyle choices' I'd probably associate myself with, given the opportunity, and a great reference point for this modern/traditional/engineered/rustic aesthetic I love.

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

I just picked out a few - but have a look for yourself.

  
 
       

tasty photography

It's one of my longer-term ambitions to open a venue in Cardiff. 

It's a really exciting town for new bars at the moment, with real people starting to have the confidence to open their own places. I don't know if I've ranted before about how I feel like Brains have completely stifled the city's cultural development and going out habits, but I think by the time I actually have the money to do something on the scale I'd like to do it, that might have changed. I hope.

Anyway, when it does open, I have to have food photography like this from Jing Quek.

That pretty much looks like exactly what I want to eat now please.

I think it would be really exciting to do something like this in a menu design. Has it already been done?

Thanks to Lost at E Minor for the tip.