Links tagged with “via:antimega”
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Organised fun: who’s it all for? - The Face
Very good. Feeling this more and more every time I visit the London Immersive Experience.(via @antimega@mastodon.social)
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Jerry Saltz: How to Be an Artist
Better than your average list of tips like “How to be a writer”. Practical and inspiring. (via Antimega)
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The spectacular power of Big Lens | The long read | News | The Guardian
On the Italian company that makes a large proportion of the world’s glasses frames merging with the French company that makes a large proportion of the world’s glasses lenses. Fascinating. (via @antimega)
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An oral history of ‘Get a Mac,’ Part 1 | Campaign US
A good read, that mainly reminds me I need some more John Hodgeman in my life. (via @antimega)
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U.K. Cinemas : London
Seating capacities of different screens. (via antimega)
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The State of the Presidential Debate - The New Yorker
Interesting history of the debates and how they came to be what they are. (via @antimega)
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There’s No App for That: Adventures in Conserving Old Tech · SFMOMA
About the difficulties of starting up a mint iPhone 1 and exhibiting it as a working thing. And HyperCard. (via @antimega)
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How we manage design work in Pivotal Tracker - Pivotal Tracker
How Pivotal Labs use Pivotal Tracker to manage design work, as opposed to development work, in an agile process (much of it isn’t specific to Pivotal Tracker). (via @antimega)
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13 Ways Designers Screw Up Client Presentations — Medium
Lots of good tips, easily extrapolated to non-designers presenting work to clients too. (via @antimega)
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The Internet With A Human Face - Beyond Tellerrand 2014 Conference Talk
Text of a great, if depressing, talk about privacy, internet advertising and business models by Maciej Cegłowski. “Investor storytime is when someone pays you to tell them how rich they’ll get when you finally put ads on your site.” (via @antimega)
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Blair Neal | How to make an installation stay up 4evr (Mac OS X version)
Not sure I’ll need this, but nice write-up of how to set up a Mac to keep showing one thing in a gallery or similar. (via Antimega)
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This at There
Very nice list of art / exhibitions on in London, ordered by how soon they close, from It’s Nice That. (via @antimega)
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Barbican - Urban Wandering – Film and the London Landscape
Loads of interesting London-related films at the Barbican in September. Includes a new film about the pedways/highwalks! (via @antimega)
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Persistent.info: Getting ALL your data out of Google Reader
What it says. QUICK! A command line tool. (via @antimega)
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GeoGuessr - Let’s explore the world!
And this is good fun, while you’re waiting for your collection of candies to grow. I got 7457 on my first and, so far, only round. (via @antimega)
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The best burritos and tacos in London – 55 burritos, 83 tacos, 59 eateries, one verdict | The Picky Glutton
Ten years ago I wrote a post wondering why there was so little Mexican food in London. Now look. (via Antimega)
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Using The New Sim City, 6 Urban Planners Battle For Bragging Rights | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
“We brought together some of the most interesting urban thinkers to play the new version of the city planning game to see who would make the best fake metropolis.” I still can’t wait. (via @antimega)
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The joy of Essex | Rationalist Association
Jonathan Meades: “To look down onto the Walton backwaters is equally to look down on the Walton backlands. Such a sense of impermanence and of susceptibility to powers beyond our control is rare in these islands.” (via @antimega)
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My New York List - Journal - Howells.
No immediate plans to visit NY, but after reading this handy list, I want some. (via @antimega)
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Secret Underground
“Smart ways around the tube system.” I’ll never remember these, but interesting and handy nonetheless. (via @antimega)
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00:/Blog - Silicon Roundabout’s ‘Start-up City’
Ugh. How do you take the really ugly Old Street roundabout and make it even more ugly and hideous and somewhere you really wouldn’t want to be? Like this! (via @antimega)
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Red Maps
Some nice looking (printed, not electronic) city maps. (via @antimega)
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Voices Of East Anglia: Inside the Oxford Street HMV Store in the Sixties
Lots of great photos of what it used to look like. I love that sweeping staircase. (via @antimega)
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Grenson | Men’s Shoes, Men’s Brogues, Mens Boots, Handmade Shoes, British Shoes
Some nice shoes, the name of which I’ll forget. (via Antimega)
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In English « Haluan nähdä muutakin
1458 people donated money to keep 21 bus and tram stops in Helsinki free of advertising for a week. A shame the posters still had big text on though. (via @antimega)
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Vintage British Argos 1985 Catalogue - a set on Flickr
Fantastic nostalgia. But also, backs up my “scan and upload any pre-Internet artefact and people will go ‘Wow!’” theory. (via @antimega)
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ASCII by Jason Scott / Archiveteam! The Geocities Torrent
There will be a 900GB torrent of all of the Geocities content that Archiveteam managed to save before the idiots at Yahoo turned it off. Wonderful. Wonderful. Could archive.org host it…? (via @antimega)