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- A lovely chap has just gone and made a t-shirt from the sticker I pointed to yesterday! Hopefully I’ll get my hands on one of them.
- Pitchfork Media’s review of The Field’s new album has intrigued me… I’m normally a guitar and shouting kind of guy, but since getting into Minilogue last year, I have become really interested in minimalist techno. Good notches to fit nervous and jittery brain cycles into while trying to get things done…
- I’ve been playing a bit with Growl recently too, although I have yet to find the use for it that will make it transformatively cool… Does anyone have any Growl tips and/or suggestions of good visual styles for the alerts?
- Sandie Shaw has put together a totally freaky and disturbing emo reworking of Puppet on a String.. While we’re still all recovering from Eurovision overload, I thought I may as well reference it. This link goes straight to the MP3, just in case you get freaked out by that kind of thing…
- I’m pretty desperate to go and see “28 weeks later” sometime later in the week. Zombies. I mean, really. There’s something wonderful about seeing your home town get destroyed by catastrophic disasters in movies. Americans are used to this, of course. Most disaster films allow them the weird visceral fantasy of seeing their daily lives ripped apart…
- The PopSci weblog has a really good basic tutorial on HDR images, should you be interested… I’ve got very interested in photography, even though I’m far from good at it. HDR images are already a bit of a Flickr clich√©, but they still can look pretty impressive.
- For those of you who don’t know HDR imagery, this is a picture of a sunset in Amsterdam… I can’t imagine there are many of you who are unfamiliar with this stuff by now, but just in case, you know? Explore the HDR tag on Flickr to see more examples….
- Joost has got a bunch more funding, including some from traditional broadcasters… I’m sort of conflicted about Joost. It’s a beautiful bit of work – so good in fact that I think it might actually thrive in the marketplace despite the fact I think it’s sort of slightly the wrong model for navigation and exploration of media…
- The BBC reports on fascinating work to recover information and files shredded by the Stasi after the fall of the Berlin Wall… Having seen “The Lives of Others” a few weeks ago, I’m fascinated in what it must have been like to have operated and lived in a country so full of surveillance…
- Monoclebizarre magazine of the overpaid design-savvy intellectual eliteis selling co-branded bicycles… I’m still not sure I get the magazine, but I have to say I’m bloody loving the look of that bike. If I actually ever used a bike, that’s exactly the kind of one I’d want…
- Matt Biddulph has gone full time as CTO of Dopplr… I’m very happy for Mattand love dopplrjust can’t help feeling a little bit sad that we’re not working with each other, which is something I’ve wanted to do again pretty much immediately ever since we both left the BBC… Miss Webb as well…
- Grant Morrison has written a potential film script for We3, and a script review of it has found its way onto the internet… Any film of this would be heavily CGI, and it might not be an obvious candidate for the transition, given how sad and violent it is. But the comic was really weirdly moving. 21st Century Watership Down?
- The “Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies” has sold for $4000 at auction… ‘Allo ‘Allo went from quite poor to really terrible as time passed, but still I have some vague affection for the idea of this picture going to auction.
- My Los Angelene film industry chum Kerry recently went to watch the first episode of ‘Drive’ at the house of super-hot Firefly star, Nathan Fillion…. What he doesn’t mention is how at the event he ran into Twitter’s Biz Stone and then had a weird conversation about me. Had a conversation about me in a super-hot famous person’s house? Let me know!
- London’s Kerning is a hugeand I suspect quite beautifulposter recreating a map of London out of typography… It’s ¬£100. I’m really tempted. I wonder how much it would cost to get framed. Probably a hell of a lot more money than I’ve got available at the moment…
- The Guardian Technology blog has revealed that for the second time in almost as many months The Independent has got something startlingly wrong… This is the mobile phones kill bees thing that went around a while back. Apparently even the researchers of the original paper are sort of horrified by the way it was presented by the increasingly ‘invisible ray’-afraid Indy…
- Mike Migurski on Disinfo graphics… I have to say that I’ve found Dion Hinchcliffe’s diagrams around this subject absolutely totally confusing and meaningless but I’ve never had the nerve to say so in public until Biddulph pointed me towards Mike’s piece…
- I’m pretty gutted that Grindhouse’s release date has been pushed back in the UK, and more concerned still that they might release it as two films… I mean, come on! The general noise is that people who went to see it loved it, but that a whole bunch of people didn’t go and see it. Do people really think cutting it in half and making people pay twice will help?
