[ quiet please / field note ]
I have been quiet here for a while.
Partly because life became busy. Partly because attention moved elsewhere. Partly because I followed a small signal and it turned into a new project.
This is a tournament-used DP World Tour “Quiet Please” marshal’s paddle.
It was originally field equipment: held at the edge of play, asking for silence so a shot can happen without interference.
For me, it sits close to the BBC Studios SILENCE lightbox in the glitch lab.
Another object asking for quiet. Another visual command. Another sign that does not need to be heard.
But this one belongs outside.
It points toward the project I have been absorbed in recently: Winter Rules.
Winter Rules is a quiet golf project by me, Daniel Pinkney — a 50-year-old deaf returning golfer in the UK — with help from my daughter, Saffron.
On the surface, it is about golf.
Trying to become better. Trying to become fitter. Trying to become more consistent. Trying to play with more patience, strategy, and less interference.
But underneath that, it is still very much a Process Zine project.
It is about perception.
How a deaf/APD body moves through a noisy world. How attention works when sound is partial, delayed, captioned, missed, or misread. How walking changes thought. How weather becomes instruction. How silence can be full of information. How a shot is never just a shot, but a small negotiation with conditions.
Golf is simply the environment where that perception is happening.
The YouTube channel is intentionally quiet: no talking, simple captions, natural sound, occasional music, walking, waiting, weather, missed shots, adjustments, and the space between shots. The music, when it appears, still belongs to the same signal/noise lineage — less soundtrack, more weather from another source.
Saffron is part of it too — filming, editing, observing, helping shape short-form clips, and eventually maybe drone footage. So it has also become something shared: time outside, quiet work, creative choices, and a reason to keep turning up.
So this is not really a departure from Process Zine.
More like a change of terrain.
From glitch lab to fairway. From signal/noise to weather/attention. From artefacts on a shelf to field equipment in use. From interpreting sound to watching how perception moves.
Quiet please.
Conditions are imperfect. Adjustments are allowed. Play continues anyway.
Winter Rules: winter-rules.co.uk YouTube: @winter-rules
