100 Conversations
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DESK | But what ‘impact’ did you have in the long-term, really?
We were in teh middle of the discussions, me and some people I know now, thanks to the internet and progressive conversations that deep over time. About the world of the NGO, and their reach for ‘impact.’ I am telling you, standing by on the sidelines blogging this blog and other blogs for a while,…
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Protected: DESK | Even the bros don’t want you, bro
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Protected: DESK | The communal narcissists you find in your everyday
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Protected: Goodbye
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Protected: DESK | You have the choice to not overidentify with ‘outcomes’, titles
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Protected: DESK | Dear Art & Copy Zine Club
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Call for submissions for DESK :: LAYERS
Are you a photographer, poet, writer, or illustrator in Phnom Penh? Submit your work to our next issue of DESK, with our theme LAYERS. A call for submissions is here: https://designkompany.com/call-for-submissions To get an idea of the kind of images we’re looking for, listen this fun interview DK’s Dipika Kohli did a few years ago…
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Protected: DESK | 88 mistakes I made while ‘doing business in Asia’ that actually were wrong globally
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‘It’s so zen’
Thank you to K. for the great compliment on our photography work on IG, the other day on the stop in Taipei. I found out a lot of things that AI said about what I should check out were totally wrong and boring suggestions and then I wrote a long book on LinkedIn in an…
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Art fairs in Southeast Asia
Not sure what I think about this, but then again, I have checked out long ago from the system that is the ‘art world’ so it might not matter to most people what kind of opinion I have. I mean, I quit art shool in New York because the stuckness of thinking what the artspeak…
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Art & Copy | San Francisco Zine Festival
Meet DESK and Art & Copy Editor Dipika Kohli in person on the weekend of SF Zine Fest, which is right around the corner over Labor Day. It’s a chance for us to get to know new people in the area there who are making and making zines, in particular. And other stuff, too. Of…
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Protected: Newswriting for Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce
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Protected: DESK | ‘There is a Time’
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Meet DK at Project North Star | August workshop in person in Cary NC
Register for our first in-person event in North Carolina in quite some time to host a small workshop on ‘How to Chart a 5-year Course.’ This is Project North Star, which we created from the tracks of our past workshops SELF, Mirror, Slow Moment, and of course Project North Star. The last one was made…
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Protected: DESK | A state of discord
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Protected: DESK | Slow down to see it
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The value of common space
In college, I had studied methods of building roads, bridges, skyscrapers, as in, how to do this. The nuts, bolts, road mixture aggregates, and trusses, the best to date of what we knew up to then in the field about how to design, how to build civil infrastructure. I liked this. I liked the math…
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Protected: Design is iteration… welcome to the next chapter of trying new things
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A decade of stories in a stack of zines, my North Carolina tour
What happens when you take a trip, don’t know when you’ll be back, and end up gone for a decade and some change? That’s the story I will tell when people meet me soon, in the Triangle, the name we have for the cities Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill that are not easy to move…
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Meet and talk in Cojournal Raleigh with neighbors, friends
I’ve been sharing about an opportunity to meet, write, talk, make, and co-create with other people in Cojournal for a little while now. Mostly, through only my personal mailing lists for Kismuth and new conversations sparked by flyers, here where I am in Phnom Penh. The idea of writing together led to making ‘zines’…
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DESK Miniparty in Phnom Penh
Make an evening of conversation with us about publishing, design, zines and Phnom Penh. Independent publishing is having a revival all around the world. Come talk with us about it. Old school, offline exchanges. Newspapers to blogs to zines… I have stories. I’m imagining you do, too. We can discover, discuss, and link up to…
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If you feel like you don’t have friends, listen to this conversation about your ‘Circle of Participation’
‘Why is making friends as an adult so hard?’ ‘You have to be willing to be seen.’ This was a good conversation and I was reminded all over again why I make conversation spaces for some people to meet each other, and meet again, and keep meeting with our zine club. It’s so fun, but…
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Conversations on Telegram
Making time for people to talk, talk together, and talk together meaningfully, over time. So that we have the thing that you need for great conversations to even happen: trust. I shifted the weekly conversations in the Art & Copy Zine Club to Telegram when more people checked that box in the application section, ‘communication…
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Protected: Not starting, on purpose, and this is why
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It’s okay not to post that much
A few weeks ago, while looking into ways to give some kind of oomph to the magazine DESK, which comes out… today!, I was browsing a lot of other people’s magazines to see what they were sharing. Was good. A lot of AI, though, sheesh. What I loved reading most were people’s real stories, but…