Our January cover star, Duval Timothy, performs ‘First Rain’ live in Freetown, Sierra Leone.Duval Timothy – ‘First Rain’ [From his 2018 project, ‘2 Sim’]Dire...

Duval Timothy performs 'First Rain' live in Sierra Leone

https://on.soundcloud.com/fix9oeGVWtMSKGpd6

https://bsky.app/profile/andremooij.bsky.social

NASA robots Perseverance and Ingenuity on the surface of Mars, 2021Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS                  A bath bomb in my local chemist gave me pause for thought. It was formed into the shape of a smiley alien’s head; a classic Grey (although green) with a NASA logo stickered squarely betw

Distant Relations

https://www.nan.xyz/txt/distant-relations/

NEVER ENOUGH (Bonus Version) by Daniel Caesar

https://music.apple.com/mx/album/never-enough-bonus-version/1681322859?l=en

Dialects of Green

https://read.cv/joannelam/dialectsofgreen

https://soundcloud.com/andre-mooij/nocturna?si=8cd9070bd76b421b95219e7c04b4a0d7&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Midnight Jukebox

Been a couple of weeks, saw one of my favorite Rufino Tamayo paintings this weekend

Starting to think about switching gigs sometime soon, feeling like I kind of want to work at a music software and/or hardware company

Aside from designing day after day, I also paint on canvas and draw with charcoal, I’ll be sure to share some stuff going forward — This one is from a series I started painting last spring and ended up selling it to a good friend

I'm currently working on a talk about growing and developing as a designer in an in-house team. One of several themes I'm focusing on is 'the urge to grow' — I'd love Posts Peeps POV on this but it doesn't fit in one post, so find more details in the reply below ↓

This is from the first sketching/writing session of the year on Jan 1st.

The theme of 2024 is practice and discipline.

Quickly trying to bring more diversity in terms of industry in here too 👀 more artists, writers, etc.

People are either very much at Config or very much doing something entirely different 😂

Last month, I've transitioned back to being an IC after being a manager for a couple of years. AMA.

Part of this successful renewed energy flow for 2024 is due to a deliberate choice to stop complaining and just start solving shit? But not in that bullshit ‘hustle’ culture sense, more like just focusing on what you want to do, and do

Healing is a hell of a drug

I've been trying to use Arc as my default but the Chrome muscle memory is really hard to beat — are there any suggestions on how to best use it or approach it to better leverage it? I feel like I'm missing out on key things sometimes

Some Duval Timothy to get you through Friday https://youtu.be/cR1_-kYmjRQ

I’ll sometimes make seasonal mixes with some of my favorite recent tracks (working on one now) and to accompany it I’ll make some artwork like this one

Link to this artworks’ mix ‘Era de Otoño’ — https://on.soundcloud.com/fix9oeGVWtMSKGpd6

Shout out to my fellow readers on Posts 👋🏼

She’s not pleased with the CDMX heat right now

Well, we're still a few weeks away from being read-only but might as well say that I hope to keep in contact with you all over on BlueSky or, god help me, Ex-Twitter — I'll be the one posting paintings, drawings and musings

https://bsky.app/profile/andremooij.bsky.social

Sporadic summer rain season in Mexico City still going strong

Yesterday I finished reading Musa Okwonga’s, In The End It Was All About Love 

A kind of memoir filled with short stories and some small details that are more magical realism than anything else, lovely read

I’ve been deep in painting and drawing mode, getting ready to start showing more of this work this year

Also been experimenting with different papers, this one is charcoal on pine tree + cotton fibers

An excellent read by Kate Rogers on human adaptability, anthropomorphism and new technologies

https://www.nan.xyz/txt/distant-relations/

This new Daniel Caesar album is on another level

https://music.apple.com/mx/album/never-enough-bonus-version/1681322859?l=en

If you’re part of a broader design team, how intentional are you with the names of your rituals + hangouts? I feel like subconsciously words like ‘Sync’ or related are just a major downer

Maybe over-indexing here, but what do you think?

I hope this email destroys everything in its path

2023 has been exhausting. Burned out and hit rock bottom in terms of motivation and engagement. But then discovered new ways of developing my practice and closing out the year with a renewed will to do things differently in 2024.

this one is for fans of:

- the colour green
- the bear (tv show, not the animal)
- slice-of-life storytelling
- text links

thank you @andy + team for the writing tab. the piece wouldn't be the same without the carousels 💚

https://read.cv/joannelam/dialectsofgreen

Drawings framed, expo ready. Paintings finished, delivered and hanged. Prints sent to peoples homes. Finally gaining momentum.

~10 hour flight to São Paulo incoming, reading material set

Happy holidays from the high mountains of Mexico 🏕️

Going to Amsterdam 🇳🇱 and Antwerp 🇧🇪 these next couple lf weeks if anyone’s got any recommendations to share!

Coming out of hibernation to share that I both saw the mighty Mexican volcanoes at dawn today and also recently published this mix

https://soundcloud.com/andre-mooij/nocturna?si=8cd9070bd76b421b95219e7c04b4a0d7&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Reading the weekly digest from Andy, I saw this project from @joannelam 

https://joannelam.com/chungkingexpress/

I honestly don't remember "Sabor A Mi" by Los Panchos being on Chungking Express, albeit I saw it like 10 years ago, but I love that song so much