Russell Davies

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Art

Ben and I did some art. And we got it into the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. It's been rather exciting.

It was also fascinating to see a bit behind the scenes of another world.

The service design of something that's been going for 250 years, for instance, is really good. The process for delivering your art to the gallery and the little anticipations of the unhappy path have been worn smooth with age.

I also now understand why all the 'affordable' things are sold-out way before regular punters get to see them. There are a lot of opportunities for insiders to shop first. That's been worn smooth too.

If you'd like your own bit of 'affordable' 'art' we made a website.

41256

I start too many things, which means many of them peter our unsatisfactorily. But occasionally one of them seems to fit nicely into my life and becomes something I just do. 41256 has become one of those.

If you've not come across it before. It's a weekly podcast. It's approximately 4 minutes and 13 seconds long. It's an 'audio commonplace', bits of sound I like and have stuck together.

I'm up to episode 22 now and I'm hoping to get to the end of the year with episode 52. I'm still surprised there aren't more short podcasts and there aren't more compilations. But, hey ho, this is one.

(BTW - if you're looking for episode 19 it was removed by the Soundcloud copyright robots because of a brief bit of Debussy.)

Here's episode 1: