Kindred Studio - Monthly Roundup

April 2026

A round-up of what I made, watched, read, listened to and noticed this month. (Edit this intro in Mailchimp before sending.)

From the studio

How I Automated My 100 Influences With n8n

My brain is not a filing cabinet — it's a compost heap. Pinterest is where most of the composting happens. I wanted the good bits on my own site, updating itself, with no CMS to open...

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So, You're Looking for a logo designer in Ipswich?

Looking for a design agency in Ipswich to sort your logo? Here's why the logo is the last thing you should think about — and what proper brand strategy starts with instead.

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Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick

Most freelancers don't carry a big stick. They speak softly—politely, professionally, patiently—and when someone decides not to pay, they've got nothing behind the words except frustration. Over half of all freelancers have experienced non-payment. Hope is...

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The performance isn't free. It never was.

For anyone who hasn't come across the term: masking is the thing neurodivergent people do when they perform neurotypical behaviour in order to fit in. You adjust your tone, your face, your volume, your eye contact,...

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Controversy is not a brand strategy

Brands are built on trust, consistency, and the slow accumulation of goodwill. You can't absorb a controversy the way a politician or a rapper can, because your relationship with your audience is fundamentally different. They're not...

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Use AI to Build Ideas That Don't Need It

I'm watching smart, talented people build their entire creative process on top of a thing they don't own, can't control, and have absolutely no guarantee will still exist in its current form in eighteen months.

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Watching

Punkhouse Atlanta Oral History - Brent Hinds, Part 1

PUNKHOUSE ATLANTA

Moth King by Eves Delight, Live at Norwich Arts Centre 24/08/2025 Supporting Horse Jumper of Love

Eve's Delight

GENER8ION - STORM starring Yung Lean

GENER8ION

Ex Machina: Everyone is a Robot 🤖

WhatisAntiLogic?

How Gaussian Splatting is Changing 3D

InspirationTuts

The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost) Anything

Veritasium

Idiots Red Band Trailer (2026)

Rotten Tomatoes Trailers

GODZILLA MINUS ZERO | First Look Teaser

GODZILLA OFFICIAL by TOHO

The Book on K's Desk Changes Everything in Blade Runner 2049

Background Broadcast

5 Pillars of Deception: How Every Bubble Is Built

Julian Whatley

Don’t chase happiness. Become antifragile | Tal Ben-Shahar | Big Think

Big Think

Think more rationally with Bayes’ rule | Steven Pinker

Big Think

Your brain may be as blind to reality as a grasshopper is to calculus | Michelle Thaller

Big Think Clips

How (and why) to take a logarithm of an image

3Blue1Brown

Why These $800 Scissors Still Can’t Be Made by Machines | WSJ Coveted

WSJ. Style

The Secret Lens That Filmed DUNE III (& Might Change Film Forever)

Brandon Talbot

Synchronicity: Carl Jung’s Most Disturbing Theory About Reality

Pursuit of Wonder

Accelerate your machine learning workloads with the M5 and A19 GPUs | Apple Developer

Apple Developer

Reading

Beatie Wolfe and Brian Eno Can’t Stop Creating Music - COOL HUNTING®

COOL HUNTING® · Unknown

Sometimes, it’s almost as if an invisible force decides who needs to meet each other. After crossing paths at SXSW 2022, then again in London the next year, Beatie Wolfe and Brian...

Brutalist Korea presents "nu-bru" buildings from Seou to Jeju Island

Dezeen · Cajsa Carlson

New book Brutalist Korea showcases designs ranging from a blocky kindergarten to a building designed to "conjure the image of an open book". Author Paul Tulett chooses 11 favourites.

Ipswich to host its first-ever TEDx event this October

Ipswich.co.uk · Unknown

The University of Suffolk has been awarded a licence to host Ipswich's first TEDx event, bringing the globally recognised platform for ideas to the town for the first time on Thursday, 1...

V&A East Museum is about to open – look inside London’s new cultural hub

Wallpaper* · Unknown

Kenza celebrates human artistry by turning ballet into eye-popping digital art

Creative Boom · Unknown

The Berlin-based design consultancy combines world-class ballet with cutting-edge digital artistry to create a serene, beautiful experience. If you'r...