Not every thought needs a project. The ones with heat, mischief, usefulness, or unreasonable persistence get a form the world can meet.
A public laboratory for hopeful ideas
Make the idea real enough for reality to answer.
Expeppermint is a growing collection of James Todd projects: curious questions made tangible, useful, and open to surprise.
Unwrap what’s next ↓Why this exists
Ideas deserve somewhere to become real.
Some begin as a practice. Some become a site, a story, a tool, or a place. Expeppermint gives each one a public home, a useful next step, and enough room to discover what it wants to become.
“An experiment tests a hypothesis. An Expeppermint adds whimsy and long-term optimism.”
How an expeppermint comes alive
Give it shape. Let it breathe. Watch where it goes.
An idea becomes an expeppermint when it leaves imagination and meets the world—small enough to try, real enough to teach us something, and alive enough to become more than we planned.
A page. A practice. A gathering. A tool. A tiny system. Make it real, then give people and possibility room to enter.
Notice who cares, what helps, what changes, and what the idea becomes once it no longer belongs only to imagination.
Ideas deserve someplace to come alive. James is their internet Geppetto.
Coming to the laboratory
On Mondays, expeppermints reveal themselves one at a time.
For now, a few clues. Each reveal will open a distinct project with its own question, identity, and room to grow.
What if the obstacle isn’t a verdict?
A practice involving terrain, agency, and the next possible move.
Expeppermint 001What if thinking could create motion?
A way to take deep thought seriously without letting it become a beautiful prison.
Expeppermint 002What happens when a useful thing finishes the job it was made for?
A once-urgent local resource has outlived its original moment. Now the question is what it might become next.
Expeppermint 003Can a place become a participant?
An experiment in refuge, habitat, belonging, and treating a patch of the world as alive.
Expeppermint 004What if every body had a safe place to practice moving?
A welcoming movement experiment built around access, agency, curiosity, and beginning exactly where you are.
Expeppermint 005Fund the next useful surprise
More room to notice, test, build, and share.
If this way of moving through the world has helped you—or you simply want more of it to exist—you can support James and the next expeppermint.