- Links for Tuesday 1 July 2008
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- Viddler.com - Phil Gyford at Interesting 2008 (mask)
- A clip of me (taken by Roo) talking about masks at Interesting 2008.
- Viddler.com - Phil Gyford at Interesting 2008 (red nose)
- Another brief clip of me talking, this bit about the clown's red nose.
- Expression Engine vs Textpattern / journal / hicksdesign
- Thoughtful comparison of both CMSs. (via Daring Fireball)
- Conceptual Trends and Current Topics - Unthinkable Futures
- I like this kind of "thinking the unthinkable" as a way to come up with new ideas about what the future could be. So easy to get stuck thinking about the most likely outcomes otherwise.
- Condé Nast to launch Wired magazine in the UK | Media | guardian.co.uk
- I hate that a bit of me is torn between bitterness and excitement about this. I want not to care. (via Haddock)
- Upload.mn - free image hosting - Wired UK
- One person's guess as to how the forthcoming UK version of Wired will turn out. Not quite Thomas Paine. (via Haddock)
- Photos for Tuesday 1 July 2008
- Telling each other what to do
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We’re now in the third week of the final phase of the Advanced Course at LISPA, our final projects. At the start of term we put on a show of the best stuff we’d created over the past year. Now, it feels like we’re looking forward rather than back, as this final few weeks begins a transition into the real world.
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- Links for Sunday 29 June 2008
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- Amazon.com: "Revolutions and State Collapse"
- I love this Listmania list, especially the first part of it with comments. Saw it ages ago but didn't save it at the time.
- 285 - London’s Lost Rivers « Strange Maps
- Idea for public art project: Brass markings on roads, pavements, buildings, etc. that mark the path of the rivers that are now hidden. (via Ted Mills)
- Bottle Tracker - Baby Tracker Software by Trixie Tracker
- Anything this obsessive makes me feel much more relaxed about my levels of personal quantification. (via Kevin Kelly)
- Phpmyfamily::home
- Allows people to collaborate on researching their family's genealogy. Nice idea, but looks pretty ugly and confusing.
- Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds
- Lets you create tag clouds that are much more lovely than the usual. (via Blackbelt Jones)
- Slides: Professional Frontend Engineering | Nate Koechley's Blog
- A presentation that nicely describes a role that is close to some of what I do. Interesting to see new (in a larger scale) roles become identified and solidified. (via Infovore)
- MagCloud
- Self-publishing, publish-on-demand magazines. Send a PDF, and they handle printing, delivery, subscriptions, etc. Seems such an obvious idea now Derek Powazek and co have done this. (via Daring Fireball)
- Me at Interesting 2008
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Last weekend I gave a five minute talk at Interesting 2008 about how we use masks at college. Russell asked me to do something about acting, after my demonstration of an acting thing last year didn’t quite work, but I only settled on a specific topic a couple of days before the event. Given college is rather hectic at the moment I didn’t have enough time to prepare and so it’s with slight hesitation that I present two brief video snippets of me in action, taken and uploaded by Roo Reynolds:
- Links for Wednesday 25 June 2008
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- Click opera - Fixated on the fixie
- Momus on fixed gear bikes. (via blackbeltjones)
- 24 ways: Tracking Christmas Cheer with Google Charts
- A good guide on how to use Google Charts. (via Simon Willison)
- MuxFind: Search for Muxtapes
- Finds muxtapes (online playlists) similar to artists or other muxtapes you like. (via Haddock)
- Drivers of Change
- A thing from Arup that would be directly up the street of me eight years ago. And maybe sometime in the future. (via City of Sound)
- Daytrotter | A Constant Reminder That People Burn And So Does Time | The Mountain Goats
- MP3s of four newish songs recorded specially for this site by the Mountain Goats. Lovely lovely.
- Displacements – today and tomorrow
- Very nice video / installation art thing, worth a look. (via Kottke)
- Goings On: Online Only: The New Yorker
- Syndey Pollack looked for "the ache" in stories. "It is the ache of having one chance at deep love in a lifetime of shallow loves, and losing it too early." Yes, that's it exactly. (via Daring Fireball)
- Occasionally going “SSSHHHH!”
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The last few days have been a bit of a blur as we prepared for and then put on a show of the best bits of our work over the past year. (I would have loved to invite you but space was much too limited unfortunately.) Quite aside from trying to get the pieces themselves up to scratch, the biggest challenge at this stage was creating a complete show out of about twenty separate pieces, with 34 actors, and no dedicated crew of any kind. Here’s what I remember of how our time was spent:
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About me
I live in London, UK. I'm currently studying acting at LISPA and working freelance planning, designing and building websites. More…
My other sites
- Pepys’ Diary - The 17th century diary.
- Haddock - A mailing list.
- Byliner - Track your favourite writers.
- Whit Stillman - The film director.
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Recently listened to music
- Prince Albert Hunt - Blues in a Bottle
- Irma Thomas - I Did My Part
- Portishead - Hunter
- Earl Hines - Rosetta
- Nick Drake - Kegelstatt Trio
