This was really so paralleled to Gerard & Kelly’s work which often plays with this idea of a clock system and uses numerology and repetition to trace intimacy in spaces. So this made it really easy for our systems to link up and we really embraced using it in the work out loud.
What tools are you using for mindfulness?
Breathing! Therapy, reading, writing. Trying to really strengthen my other senses more than my rampant brain, because this head of mine gets way ahead of itself some time. It can be so unkind to me. Trying to take the time to recognize when I eat fruit, where it may have come from and appreciating the hands that picked it...I've had great guides in helping me practice this because by nature I am not wired this way. In the past I’ve used my movement through dance, or musical meditations to help me practice this and recently those tools said nah this is not enough. So mindfulness is becoming a necessary part of my evolution.
Dropbox recently announced our smart workspace, a place to bring together all your content and apps in one place to reduce distractions and help you focus. Which apps do you rely on every day? How would you envision building a smart workspace for creative collaborators?
So much of my work is done with team members and collaborators from all over the world and centering in one space to share and organize ideas, textures, schedules, budgets and any other progressions within the project is so absolutely vital to the process. It would only make sense that the tools we have feel like their own digital universes that reflect the universes and experiences we are trying to create where we can express the sense of community and connectivity that we are trying to build out in the world.
I use a lot of voice notes, and photo booth videos, and photo references from my phone that I really rely on to send to collaborators to build the landscape as I develop it in real time. I also use a few weather apps to track light, photo resizing apps, apps to organize my MP3’s so that I can access them from recording studio straight to phone. I also like to be attentive about the environments I work and dwell in for projects and so there’s a few hotel apps in there as well. A lot of these projects move at rapid speed and having one place to organize all of these resources for everybody to be able to access quickly and efficiently, but having this space speak to the way that we want to engage as a team, as a community, and out in the world.
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