Jack Garfinkel

@curiousscutter.bsky.social

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Content design, dungarees, parenting, custard they/them

Screenshot of Google maps showing a small settlement called Cuckfield and associated venues like the Cuckfield museum and Cuckfield Royal Observer Corps Bunker
2 customer service notices on labelled automatic doors. Text is sorry, I am broken.
About a dozen strawberries on a white plate. They range from small to very small. Many are pleasingly wonky.
Graffiti by a child. Text is write your name if you are a monkey that eats bananas! Picture is a cheerful monkey brandishing a banana.
Four smiling young people in mid 2000s garb. The 2 women a glamerous, the 3 male presenting people are shlubby. They are leaning on a reception desk with the word Objective behind it in shiny metallic letters.
Album cover for Carly Rae Jepsen's 10 year anniversary edition of the album Emotion. It's moody, she's wearing a tuxedo jacket which blends with the background. Only her hands and a portion of her face are visible. One hand in a pocket the other on her head delicately holding a white rose. Her hair frames her face, which is turned to be in profile, gaze downcast, her eye is closed but mostly covered by fringe.
Paper spooling out of the typewriter. The wonky text reads daddy likes wires.
A desk. On it is a 15 inch MacBook pro on a stand, a 21 inch 4 by 3 aspect ratio 21 inch monitor. A split ergodox keyboard is in the foreground. There is a coffee cup here.
A child of about 8 sitting at a computer desk. They are drawing a flower on MS paint. The monitor is square, nineties style.
A child of about 8 wearing a blue pinafore dress with bow fastenings and a Lucy and yak logo. The kitchen in the background is chaotic, with a play mat and haphazard table and chairs.
The pier at Eastbourne. The sea is flat. The buildings on the pier protrude and just out. The sky is grey. The picture is calm, maybe melancholy. A smudge og a seagull in the foreground.
On a wet, slightly green patio a small child is bathing in a plastic tub. The day is grey, the drain strewn with leaves and twigs.
CDs in their cases: Shakira's laundry service, Kylie's fever, Air's moon safari, George Michael's faith, eels' beautiful freak, Alanis Morisette's jagged little pill.
Venn diagram with 2 circles - 1 is labelled probabilistic answer generators and the other is labelled sean paul. The overlapping region is labelled as temperature. The image is low quality.
A once white toddlers vest with brownie and custard stains on it. I hope it's brownie stains anyway. It is. Don't worry.
I am wearing blue dungarees by Lucy and yak with a long sleeve blue and red Breton top. I am smiling in a way that only a middle aged person who has left the concept of cool far behind can.
On a picnic table bench, 2 children from behind are face out to sea. The sky is big and grey with clouds but still bright. No other people are visible.
A still from the image terminator 2. It is from the android's point of view, looking out over a carpark with a car on fire from a recently launched grenade. Text is Human Casualties: 0.0 with some machine formatted numbers in the background, all variations of zero.
Terry Pratchett smiling and white bearded, sitting in front of a chunky desk with 6 old quare flat panel monitors arranged 3 wide and 2 high. His desk is cluttered and there is a large hourglass half way through its sand. In the background, shafts of natural light partially penetrate the cosy ambience.
The Somali pirate captain, Abduwali Abdulkadir Muse played by Barkhad Abdi, from the movie dramatisation Captain Philips. He is full frame, pointing at his eyes which are wide with deadly focus. The background is a ship's bridge. The text is look at me, I am agile now
2 children from behind. One is about 2, with a curly mop of brown hair and a striped t shirt. The other is about 7, wearing a straw hat with flowers. They are sitting on a bench, looking out over a lush English countryside scene. Lush grass, a wooden posted wire fence with some trees and yellow flowers beyond. It is a clear day, glowing with warmth.
A drinks can with it's a grape fruit ting written on it. Ting is in larger text. There are drawings of grapefruit halves on the can.
A toddler in a baby grow and hoody is squatting while tenderly stroking an epson inkjet printer. It's definitely the corner of a mildly neglected spare room and home office space - a storage unit filled with old files, folders and half finished craft projects. There's also a child's ikea chair with an owl cushion with one eye on itl.
A tabby cat sits on a pile of leaves on a tarmac path with railings visible on one side. A young child in a warm jacket is stroking them gently. Both are viewed from behind but are clearly calmly content in the moment.
An advert. The headline text is, in all caps, Perfect solution for a complete breakfast! The secondary text is combines the options of toasting, egg cooking / bean warmer all in one. A 2 slot toaster from Tefal. There is circular bowl-like extension mostly covered by a clear plastic lid. Inside, there is a suspiciously vibrant cooked egg, possibly poached. Secondary illustrations show 2 alternative fillings for the bowl attachements - 4 eggs with shell on or very shiny beans. Text is 'illustration of cooking options'.
A white-ish wall with 2 paint sample patches, both gloomy shades of grey
A glove puppet cat warmly embraces a soft toy badger. The cat has a cheerful, manic look. In the background is a warm domestic scene, with a small child and soft toy monkey partially in shot.
Me from neck to waist wearing navy dungarees - they are attached with metal buckles, with 3 rivet buttons on the right. I am wearing a 4 colour Breton top with light blue, navy, olive and white stripes.
Painfully 90s book cover - dominated by what looks like the earth viewed from high orbit, but it has a parallel (or possibly scuzii?) port in it, with a disembodied wire about to plug into it. The tittle is teach yourself (small letters) and then in huge letters TCP/IP. The text inserts are: 1. learn about gateways, bridges and routers, internetworking, routing and installing TCP/IP 2. Discover the fundamentals of the newest edition of IP II Next Generation 3. Explore the layered architecture of TCP/IP, FTP session layers and SMTP in detail The bright printed on sticker insert says Covers networking with Windows 95, NT and Linux! There are gradients and metal effects everywhere. It is hideous. It is glorious.
a black surface pro 2017 on a bedspread in what may be a tasteful Ikea floral pattern. The keyboard is backlit. A large dongle is inadequately attached to the side of the computer. In the background there are some drawers and a child's stool. The windowsill has been cropped out because it's so messy that it makes me sad.
Two children from behind. One is about 7 sitting at a joyfully cluttered desk. They are wearing headphones, a striped top and brightly coloured headphones and their hair in a ballet bun. Above the desk is a pin board with brightly coloured toy handbags, a unicorn headband and other riches attached to it. The other child, a toddler with a head covered in sandy hair, is wearing striped dungarees and reaching up to grab something from the short shelves which are covered with the assorted detritus of childhood and domesticity - a sparkly pot, a hoover squigee thing books, toys and sudocream. A shaft of morning sunlight is creeping across the floor.
Text getting increasingly garish formatting:1. no formatting: Normal text 2. bold: This is important 3.bold and italic: This is also important 4. Bold and red: This is really important 5. Bold, red and uppercase: No, this is really important 6. Bold, red, uppercase and flanked by asterisks: wow, things are really important now!
A tiny white lighthouse viewed from the other side of a bay from a green hillside edged with a stone wall
A beige electronic typewriter made by canon. It is well used, sitting expectantly on a shelf in a charity shop. Is has a small slit of an LCD display. It probably made someone happy in the very early 90s.
A Thinkpad laptop that looks quite 90s. I am holding up a USB 3 express card adapter
An American school bus looms out of the gothic mist. Text in spooky font reads ask not for whom the vengabus is coming it's coming for thee
Colourful building blocks, crudely arranged to vaguely resemble 2 horned creatures facing each other
My body from neck to waist - I am wearing navy tie on dungarees by Lucy and Yak with a white, navy, blue and red striped breton top
Shot from behind - a toddler wearing a sleep suit sits on a brightly coloured jigsaw mat surrounded by spices, a tippy cup and general domestic deviation.
Vintage Fisher Price aeroplane toy on the carpet with the door open. A small blue smiling figure is standing next to it, looking into the camera.
entry level toddler human in a white and red striped onesy sitting on an office chair in a minimal office nook - there is a shallow wooden desk, a weird split keyboard, trackball and 2 monitors. Child is using the trackball.
Close up of the inside of the leg hole seam. There is a subtle line of sitching at the outside, and a more visible line further in. It is even, of a little wobbly!
White, fluffy snowsuit with hood and animal ears on reassuringly beige carpet
A long narrow space with white walls at and a window at the far end. Along one wall is a narrow and freshly cut pine desk. 2 monitors, 1 in landscape and 1 in portrait are held in mid air by monitor arms.
A baby toddler human hybrid creature is diving into a large plastic crate with one leg held up in the air. The room is in chaos.
A baby toddler hybrid human doing a squat jump on the corner of a newly carpeted room, empty bar the coils of coaxial cable next to them.
Me, smiling at the camera holding a Content Design London water bottle and a copy of the book Content Transformation by Hinrich Von Haaren. I am white, slightly built and wearing thick rimmed black glasses. I am wearing slim fit black dungarees and a boxy red and black short sleeved top.
Baby in sink sitting up with their back to camera. A saucepan and washing up liquid are in the foreground.
Baby in a nappy from behind watches the washing machine, spellbound
Baby sitting up in a plastic crate filled with water on a back garden patio. They are holding a clear yoghurt pot.
Bottom half of my blue dungarees with 2 large oil stains
A steep stepped path through dense trees and shrubbery. Everything is dappled in bright sunlight. Some distance away, a small child is standing on the step, wearing a bright green t shirt, a cream coloured skirt and a straw hat. Their back is facing the camera.
Me gurning awkwardly at the camera with a baby in a sling faces inwards
A baby toddler creature, standing up and half way to crawling into an open washing machine
Three men dressed up as the Beastie boys in the intergalactic video. All wearing white boiler suits, yellow wellies, hi vis strips and hard hats. The 2 on either side are in a power pose - holding their fists up, and holding hands. The middle one (me) is holding their arms outstretched. All look blank and slightly awkward.
Me with face to camera smiling. A baby in a red grow and brightly coloured sleeping bag is nestling into my neck.
Child in a high chair, viewed from behind, sat at a wooden restaurant table. They are wearing a yellow and white striped top.