Welcome

Mick Winter lives in California’s Napa Valley with his wife Kathryn, occasional resident daughter Joanna, and their cats Sophie and Truffle.

He is the author of "Cuba for the Misinformed: Facts from the Forbidden Island,"  "Scan Me - Everybody's Guide to the Magical World of QR Codes," and “Peak Oil Prep: Prepare for Peak Oil, Climate Change and Economic Collapse”.

Mick holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Master of Arts (Distinction) from the University of Brighton in the UK.

Listen to an Interview

as Professor Tara Brabazon talks to Mick Winter about his book on QR codes titled "Scan Me: Everybody's Guide to the Magical World of QR Codes."

Follow up - Tara Brabazon interviews Mick for Montage in Sri Lanka.

Enjoy this five minute relaxation audio. Headphones recommended

Relaxation Sounds by napamick

Thanks to Randall Munroe, www.xkcd.com

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• "The purpose of art is to remind us of paradise."
  Anonymous University of British Columbia professor
  
  
  "...Art at its most significant [is] a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it"
  Marshall McLuhan
  
  "In today already walks tomorrow."
  Friedrich von Schiller
  
  
  "It's time for the wizards to step back, and the little hobbits to carry the ring."
  W.I. Thompson
  
  
  "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
  Buckminster Fuller
  
  "The Work is serious, but it doesn't have to be deadpan."
  E.J. Gold
  
  "You need not do anything.
  Remain sitting at your table and listen.
  You need not even listen, just wait.
  You need not even wait, just learn to be quiet, still and solitary.
  And the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked.
  It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."
  Franz Kafka

  
  
  "Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."
  Gustave Flaubert

• Selected text from Mick Winter's "Insomnia Tips" was set to music by composer Beata Moon. Her choral piece was premiered in New York by Cantori New York on November 1, 2008.