Sources of inspiration: My ear trumpet
To me, visiting My Ear-Trumpet is like reliving the days of boyhood. There was this old trunk lost in a forsaken room filled with family treasures. As I opened it and browsed its stuff, I felt like the ancestors were back alive speaking to me. As a young kid, I found only natural that people used to worship their ancestors. My Ear Trumpet features quite a lot of content about the Belle Epoque, the Victorian, the Steampunk and the Edwardian among its many other wonders… and some silliness. The sublime, the geeky and the weird, it’s all there. It’s hard that you love every...
Read MoreChanges, more changes
As you can see, I’ve been changing more than a few things around here in MiniM. It’s not that l love change — well I do– but that I’m still trying to discover what’s the best way to implement my dreams. That, and, that I’m keeping the work on Newsies & Bootblacks, of course, but we will speak about that a bit later. Changes to the design of the blog. Since the very start of this game I’ve been struggling to find a compromise between a theme that says “I’m minimalist” and “I make games”, and a design that...
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This is a minimalist business, and by minimalist business I mean the Everett Bogue sense of that. I bought his books and I am pretty much convinced by him, convinced enough to try it out by myself. What’s more, I will be applying his method, more or less to the letter and share with you how well or bad it goes for me. Obviously this small business cannot prove or disprove Everett. If I fail it could well be all my fault, if I achieve success, there’s no way to know if I could be more successful using a more traditional route. Yet the good thing about Everett’s is that I...
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