Post by @urlyman@mastodon.social

…Those 129 wind turbines – perhaps a quarter or more of the way into their optimal life as rebuildables – are now part of tens of thousands of “AI-detected” structures mapped at https://mapscaping.com/offshore-wind-farm-map/#lat=55.0201&lng=2.6477&z=9&conf=high%2Cmedium%2Clow.

There are close to 3,000 such turbines operational off the UK coast now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_offshore_wind_farms_in_the_United_Kingdom#Map_of_the_UK_offshore_wind_farms

Here are the ones in the eastern half of the UK. Around 1,600 of them are in international waters

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Map of 6 clusters of wind turbines off the coast of Scotland.

Map of 10 or so clusters of wind turbines off the coast of Northern and Eastern England.

Map of 9 further clusters of wind turbines off the coast of Eastern and southern England. 4 of the ones in the previous map are shown. Also shown is a large cluster off the coast of Belgium and the Netherlands.

Brett Sheffield (he/him)

@dentangle@chaos.social · 22 hours ago

@urlyman For many young children (I think I was about 8 or 9), being left alone to amuse themselves for most of the summer holidays in an office would be dull. However, I had a Letraset catalogue and a Clipart book, and that made all the difference.

Jonathan Schofield

@urlyman@mastodon.social · 22 hours ago

@dentangle a seemingly benign use of plastics long before I knew that fossil-fuel derived plastics cannot be benign. More innocent times

Jonathan Schofield

@urlyman@mastodon.social · 2 days ago

…Up to age 13, I had wanted to join the RAF because I was excited by the English Electric Lightnings and Hawker-Siddeley Harriers and Avro Vulcan bombers that regularly flew over our house on their way to the bombing ranges out in the Lincolnshire Wash.

And this seemed like a good concession to the desire of my dad, a retired career soldier, that I join the armed forces.

But now this couldn’t possibly win in competition with the idea that someone might pay me to make shapes on a printed page

Russell Garner

@rgarner@mastodon.social · yesterday

@urlyman ha, I was in the Air Training Corps for similar reasons (I wanted to fly helis)

Jonathan Schofield

@urlyman@mastodon.social · 24 hours ago

@rgarner :)

Jonathan Schofield

@urlyman@mastodon.social · 2 days ago

…School was friction though. Being into maths *and* art was considered odd. I was good at drawing but not great. On learning that I wanted to be a graphic designer the careers advice was *don’t be*. It was too ‘competitive’ and you, Schofield, are a slacker. It’s true, I was.

But the bug was in me. I could not not try to become a graphic designer

Jonathan Schofield

@urlyman@mastodon.social · 2 days ago

…To my dad’s credit, he could see that he’d failed to convince me that camaraderie on the battlefield was *the prize* in life, and helped nudge me in the direction I wanted to go.

And then in 1984, 7 years after developing a font fetish, college offered me a course bifurcation: graphic design or advertising:

- Help people sell other people shit that they want but don’t need, either indirectly or overtly
- inform/persuade, or persuade/con like Mad Men.

I went with inform/persuade

Kudra :maybe_verified:

@kudra@aus.social · 14 hours ago

@urlyman I had the same experience, and recently wrote the following line at the beginning of a bio for an upcoming festival/conference:

"Disillusioned by the industry requirements of her graphic design degree.."

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Jonathan Schofield

@urlyman@mastodon.social · 2 days ago

…However, inform/persuade was still *help people sell to other people shit that they don’t need but learn that they want*.

Like a road man, helping the pusher move product.

But hey, do it with fonts ❤️ and coloured boxes and images.

And move from composing it with bits of paper stuck to a ‘layout board’ with hot wax, to doing it on a thing called a computer which is made with precious things that can barely be recycled and will slowly decompose in landfill in a far away country

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