🪲 James Johnson

@thisisjam.es

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#dataviz enthusiast & interactive storyteller. Building visual essays, dashboards, and tech projects. Pro sectors: electronics, semiconductors. More at ThisIsJam.es I run the Info Vis Group in Barcelona: www.infovisgroup.org

Merry Christmas

My digital handwriting.

A lovely Shaggy parasol, Chlorophyllum (I think!), El Pont de Suert, Lerida, Spain

I believe this is Chlorociboria, which stains wood bluish-green due to a pigment called xylindein. Taken at El Pont de Suert, Lerida, Catalonia, Spain.

The line work for my Marriage of Heaven and Hell image, inspired by William Blake, before applying color. The text in the image is from the book by Blake, written with a calligraphy pen.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake.

My own exercise tracker, with forms to enter data, a graph, and a scrollable table of previous entries.

Cartoon about Schrödinger. "Atoms are so tiny that, if we poured your glass of beer into the sea, and then mixed the sea and beer together, and then we filled the glass again with water from the sea, the glass would contain around 200 atoms from your beer.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. William Blake.

We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.
Alan Watts

It is easy to convince yourself that you should learn more before taking action. But too often this becomes an excuse not to do anything. When failure is cheap, learn by doing.