Donuts are good

Why didn’t dinosaurs make spaceships? Their reptile brains couldn’t evolve to be expandable and develop technology to escape Earth, bla bla. But here’s a sweeter mystery: Why didn’t they make donuts?  

Do you really need a highly evolved brain to create these delicious delicacy? Turns out, no other animals ever made donuts. So I deduce that donuts require a special mix of abstraction and fine culture.

Let’s celebrate this unique human achievement Keep the donut light shining! Don’t listen to those who say donuts are bad—obviously they just don’t understand the essence of life.

Recorded planet explosion

In his daily routine the James Webb Space Telescope captures stunning photos of distant galaxies every day. Humans like those photos for any reason. They collect them and analyse them and at the end he is programmed to do so. One day, a regular Wednesday, he received orders to point to the Earth for a special event. Boom! 

In a flash, planet Earth vanished. Billions of years of biological evolution, gone. The James Webb Telescope recorded the catastrophic event, but now he floats alone in the cosmos. Forever.

With no one left to admire his photos, the telescope ponders its existence. “What do I do with this footage now?” he asks himself. It could have been the most shared video ever, but there’s no one left to watch. The James Webb Telescope needs a new purpose.

Cyberpunk 2077 memories

“One day, I’ll sit by a fireplace and look at old photos.” But that never really happens. Most of the time when I go through my cherished catalog, my personal treasure, it’s for organizing tasks in Lightroom. And this happens quite often. A task of a lifetime.

Now, I’m also starting to accumulate photos from Cyberpunk 2077 which in a way are also memories. Anything that evokes a feeling brings back a memory I guess.

My writing tools. Home version

Unlike when I’m traveling, I use a wooden box at home. Also metal mechanical pencil and something else that increases the weight a lot. I still try to keep things simple and accessible. And yes, I’m back to fountain pens!

It’s amazing how these small details can impact every drawing or text produced.

Love the process

1. For TikTokusers/mainstream readers (too much text below!): 

Experiments are good! 🤗💫❤️

2. For curious minds:
“I need to produce good things. Moreover, I need to produce only good things. Therefore, I cannot waste time on drawings that are not extraordinary. Problem solved.” The paradox of excellence.

It’s a big mistake to fall into that trap. To achieve an acceptable level of mastery, a learning process that includes trial and error is necessary, inevitably resulting in often low-quality outputs. The game of creativity is what is it, and the first step is to accept and use it to your advantage. Avoiding that step out of fear of producing failures or, even worse, awakening the ego would be fatal. The ego will immediately seize any opportunity, raise its voice, and cause havoc, blaming its host for such horrible drawing here or that mistake there. What a shame! The ego will say this would be tolerable for a beginner but unacceptable for someone with experience.

However, the reality is that these failed experiments are the building blocks of a future palace yet to be constructed. Once this is understood and accepted, expecting a highly probable disaster, it is important to develop a new superpower: learning to enjoy the process. Reaching this level is akin to attaining Nirvana I guess. Then you can start the journey with some peace and tranquility.

This page serves as an example: an experimental composition with little hope of producing something useful. How boring it would be to use proven solutions whose outcomes are known in advance. After all, this notebook is an exploration tool, and you can’t expect to gain much from well-trodden ground. The possibilities that open up at this point are endless. It’s overwhelming, so much so that it becomes paralyzing, but that’s another topic to address separately. I’m running out of space here, and not everything can be covered at once. To conclude, experience tells us that often, wonderful things emerge from experimentation that would never have come about otherwise.

2050. Huge A3+ notes

This 2050 project has many arms, in many directions, and that's fascinating. I often just let me go with the flow of new ideas. In this case I started to take some notes in this A3 paper which ended up like that. It offers a kind of overview much wider than the pages of a notebook. 

Definitely not useful as a pocket notes to take them everywhere (airplanes, cafes for intellectual people, crowded metro, etc).