I haven’t been thinking anything this past week. Just a pure blank boy, smacking my fingers on a keyboard to make things happen and any spare brain capacity I have entirely devoted to what I’m going to eat for my next meal.

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Content of this week

• Opera egg.

• I love that moment when you find something in a collection, you know that it’s gold and the only thing you have to do is figure out the best way of communicating it. That’s what Wellcome Collection did with the hand-drawn adventures of Mouton the cat, created 200 years ago by a Victorian girl called Emily.

• This is a very effective way of showing off light in your paintings.

• Here are some good tips for elevating your videos (though they’re basically just traditional documentary tricks).

• This guy’s tours of cultural places should have more engagement. If I had power over influencer budgets I’d be spending it on this rather than the usual milk toast stuff.

• The power of theatre kids being able to send this video to 1m Likes will never not terrify me.

• I’ve seen countless terrible attempts (most of them mine) at making content from creepy dolls in museums. This one by the Savannah Paranormal Museum hits that sweet spot of wanting to find out which doll triggers the filter, the horror of the dolls and the authentic unscriptedness of it all.

• This is nothing to do with anything I just really liked it.

The bullet point bit

• In fun (not fun) news, it’s looking like the UK government is gearing up to letting AI companies consume all creative works without any consequence, but if I want to use a clip of a 50 year old film in a social post for a regional theatre I’ll get sued by a billion-dollar corporation.

• The British Museum Young People account paired up with Fair Museum Jobs for a post about where to find jobs in the museum sector. It reminds me that every large organisation is full of little teams doing nice little things (and big things). Though the issue with museum jobs isn’t necessarily where to find them, but the huge competition and shit pay 🙃

• Richard Cook left his social media job at Monzo to join their writing team and he’s been reflecting on not having to post every day. This one about always wanting to be in the room, realising the room doesn’t really exist and that you have to make your own room #resonates.

Personal stuff I do for me and you can just skip this if you like

🎮📖 what I’m consuming as a consumer

I refer to my opening paragraph.

🐕 Keith

Here he is, like something out of Silent Hill