https://georgesupreeth.com/web/tags/attention/Recent content in Attention on George SupreethHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThu, 24 Jul 2025 12:25:01 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_attentional_farmers_markets/Thu, 24 Jul 2025 12:25:01 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_attentional_farmers_markets/In his book, The Siren’s Call, Chris Hayes proposes an idea he calls Attentional Farmer’s Markets. He suggests this as a means by which we may reclaim our diminishing attention in a world that attempts to constantly steal it. On Sunday mornings, I sketch with a group called Penciljam. We are a community that meets to draw on location, and have been doing this every week for a decade and a half.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_i_find_video_distracting/Sun, 23 Mar 2025 12:25:01 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_i_find_video_distracting/Watching a TV show with me is an ordeal for my wife, though the sweet person that she is, she no longer complains about it. Only throws me a withering look, a suffering sigh. I know how much I annoy her, but I can’t help myself. Video distracts me. I need to pause the show now and then, and rewind a few seconds because I find myself trying to catch a detail that I missed1.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_drawing_away_from_mindlessness/Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:25:01 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_drawing_away_from_mindlessness/There is a group in Bangalore that gathers on Sundays to draw. They fill their sketchbooks with subjects that most people wouldn’t consider worthy of attention—landscapes, buildings, trees, vehicles, animals and people going about their daily lives. Sometimes a passerby notices them at work, and asks, “what will you do with these drawings?” The assumption is that the drawings must be important—an object of value. Surely, if drawing takes hours of work, such labour must attract a price.