Log

by Rodrigo Tello

I got this book called "HARDWARE 2024" and it's fascinating. A compilation of interviews with the main players of electronic hardware these days, from big names like Teenager Engineering, to indie players like USB Club and Poetry Camera.

The design is a beautiful piece of craftsmanship and the interviews are worth wondering around. A good example that *the technology industry* has moved beyoned apps, is not stuck in AI hype, and the conversations worth having are not always on the comments section of social media.

I updated the ‘Interests’ section on my homepage. I want my work to make drawing a thinking practice—a form of literacy—through zines, videos, talks, articles, and by documenting my own thought process.

For the last couple of months, I've trained Brazilian Jiujitsu and held conversations with my friend about all the interesting concepts we can learn from the practice: from conflict resolution to pedagogical philosophies.

Today I'm informally, curiously, slowly, but steady, starting the Jiujitsu Movement Research Club.

I started a practice of doing small postcards I'll be sending to friends, loved ones, and even also acquintances I want to show a small gesture of attention.

I just bought a liter of the blackest black paint you can buy.

Going back and forth between working only and mainly on the big project, that would show up results months from now, or small projects that I think I can see progress in a week. The truth is, no project is really that fast. Is a trick from the mind to try to start another project because it'll be faster and will keep momentum going. At the same time, there are no rules on creativity and art, and we should only be accountable to ourselves.

Training martial arts when you don't feel like training is when the work really happens.

I need a creative partner. Someone that doesn't work with software primarly. A creative partner I can bounce ideas with, and just make dumb stuff: movies, music, songs, lamps, tshirts. I might be too old, or it'll look like, but I don't think I am.

My friend Kei sent me these zines from Germany: