Lazy Chronicles 🥸

An Ode to slow-life

Recently, while I was trying to figure out how Substack actually works, I noticed that the main publication on my profile was named after... me.
Obviously, I didn’t mean to create a publication solely focused on myself—especially considering my name is extremely hard to pronounce for any English-speaking person.
But of course, this is my publication. It tells stories I live.

So after some thinking, I felt the need to find an alter ego—a name, an identity—for this main channel full of stories.

Not that my name wasn’t enough, but honestly, who cares? Nobody really cares about my actual name.

The Problem

I needed to give it some character, to give it a soul—something people could read and say:
“Hey, I understand this guy.”
After all, I was looking for deeper connections on social media, and Substack seemed like the right place to start.

So, I came up with Lazy Chronicles.

Before diving into the whole concept behind the name, I need to explain how I’d like to live my life over the next few years.

My concept of “slow-life”

After spending some time in a foreign country (Denmark), living like a crazy-ass worker with barely any spare time, it only took me a couple of months to realize that this kind of life wasn’t what I had expected.

Don’t get me wrong—I know that working and committing to a job is part of modern life.
But the work/life balance was totally off. Or at least, that’s how it felt to me.

Living, experiencing things, traveling around, taking time to write, read, love, play—these are all parts of existence.
And I realized they were slipping through my fingers faster than I could notice.

As a friend of mine once asked himself:
“Am I living on autopilot?”
Because that’s exactly what was happening.

I needed to approach life in a different way.
And even though it's extremely difficult nowadays, I had to slow down.

The name

Back to the blog name—this is the reason behind it.
We’re all living our own chronicles, and we choose the pace.
Mine wants to be slow, relaxed. Even if some people might call it lazy.

And how can I represent this?
Well, I often create visual symbols for things—especially considering what I do for a living.
But this time, adding a personal touch was the only reasonable and logical solution.

So yeah—the logo is my face.
Well, not my actual face, but my most characteristic facial features: eyebrows, glasses, nose, and moustache.

It was stuck in my mind, so it only took me a few minutes to create it in Affinity Designer.

What should you expect, then? Are you just going to talk about yourself all the time?

Again—no.
Kinda.

I’m going to talk about many different topics—various interesting shades of what I experience in life.
The articles will mainly relate to visual culture, photography, zine-making, and art & design in general.

Maybe you’ll find it interesting.

I really hope so.

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