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title: "Curiosities"
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emoji: 🧠
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type: timeless
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I'm a thoroughly [miriscient](https://www.miriscient.org) chap, and this often ends up in me creating toys, trinkets, projects and other artistic things. I've listed some out below.
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## It's all here
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I'm getting older, and sites I've been creative on are dying or becoming marketing platforms, so I'm gradually moving all my historical posts on other platforms to this blog.
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* I'm [no fan of instagram](/posts/goodbye-big-social) these days, but all my 📸 [archived insta posts](/instagram-posts) are right here.
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* For a good few years I wrote 📝 [poetry](/poetry) and kept it online — now stored here for your giggles and my cringe.
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* In 2009 I 🇯🇵 [blogged my visit to Japan](/tags/japan-with-jk) with my friend JK. I've loved reading through my thoughts after my recent return there!
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## Words and writing
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* I created a word to fill a hole in the vocabulary I had to describe my _miriscient_ friends. Read or listen to 📖 [the story right here](/posts/miriscience).
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* During the pandemic I built 🐌 [slow.fyi](https://slow.fyi) so I could write to friends old and new without pressuring them to reply or be rude.
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* I published a book, 📔 [A lighter side of Africa](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lighter-Side-Africa-Paintings-Michael/dp/0993324908/), with my brother and Dad which showcases the artwork of a now sadly deceased Zimbabwean family friend, Michael J. Allard.
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## Art and Creativity
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* As I travel I like to take 30 second video clips of the peaceful places. I visit the 🧘♂️ [site I made for them](http://30s.byjp.me/) when I want to relax for a moment.
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* My friend created a beautiful alphabet, I turned it into a font and 👨🎤 [performance microsite](https://caspian.byjp.me). Read or listen to 📖 [the story right here](/posts/the-beauty-of-type).
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* I once studied biomedical physics, so when I had an MRI of my head I jumped at the opportunity to extract a 3D model of my brain and 🧠 [render it in WebGL online](https://brain.byjp.me/).
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* I built a clockface that counts 🕰 [the seconds since I was born](https://tictoc.byjp.me/). In binary.
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* I helped by friend learn about website infrastructure by building a microsite of her favourite moment in film… 🐶 [wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?](https://wannahearthemostannoyingsoundintheworld.byjp.me).
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* Maybe you'll like this little guy 🐙 [called tako](https://tako.byjp.me).
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## Postcards
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* I write short fiction on postcards my Grandmother collected as she travelled Europe. You can 📮 [read them on their site](http://lucy.byjp.me/) or 🌍 [as an artsy animated thingie](http://lucy.byjp.me/globe#diving), if you're in a fancy browser.
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* My friend likes telling me to 🤫 [shut up by post](https://www.instagram.com/p/BqZR3qjAkMC/). If I need it I have a 😏 [speedier retort to hand](http://shutupclaire.byjp.me/).
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* I once left 15 self-addressed postcards dotted around London, suggesting that people doodle on them and send them back. 🐪 [Only one returned](http://postcarddoodles.byjp.me/), but I like that I'll never know who sent it to me, or drew it.
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* In 2013 I tried to send a postcard every day for the whole year. I sent about 200, and 📫 [uploaded 92 of them](http://postcards.byjp.me/) to an odd site that never really knew what it was.
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* Have you noticed that I really like postcards? See some favourites on 📸 [postcards.jpg](https://instagram.com/postcards.jpg).
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If you enjoyed any of these, why not tell me about it in an email — I have a [standing invitation](/standing-invitation).
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