Pete Ashton's Notes & Links

This is my notebook. Stuff I’m doing, stuff I’m thinking about, stuff I’ve seen online and feel is worth sharing.

Shifty, the new Adam Curtis visual essay thingy, is devastatingly good, especially if like me you were a kid in Britain during the 80s. I suddenly had this sense that I could be in these clips, that this was about my life, about events I hadn’t fully understood at time but had lived through, and the implications of which we’re still struggling to deal with.