Writing
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w/e 30 September 2018
My first paid acting work; ‘17c’ at the Old Vic; ‘Trust’; and Mastodon compared to Twitter.
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w/e 23 September 2018
The Festival of Maintenance and ‘Lucky’.
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WorldSkills.org’s new website
A recent project I worked on launched recently… a new version of the WorldSkills website.
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w/e 16 September 2018
‘Clouds of Sils Maria’; W. G. Sebald’s ‘Austerlitz’; ordering an Apple Watch; and season four of ‘Silicon Valley’.
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w/e 9 September 2018
Corporationpop; more paper scanning; ‘Distant Voices, Still Lives’; ‘Leave No Trace’; and the sound of official American phone calls.
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w/e 2 September 2018
Holiday, ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ season one, ‘The Americans’ season five, the end of ‘Keeping Faith’, and ‘Familiar’ by J. Robert Lennon.
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w/e 26 August 2018
Document scanning, the Hobby Horse podcast, ‘Mildred Pierce’, Twitter, and slowing down.
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w/e 19 August 2018
Giving up on the Culture novels, ‘Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema’, ‘Hang Ups’, more Mastodon, and a Co-op follow-up.
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Buying a washing machine from the Co-op
The good and mostly bad things that occurred during the process of buying a washing machine from the Co-op
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f/e 12 August 2018
‘Keeping Faith’, ‘The Five Billion Pound Super Sewer’, some Ask MetaFilter questions, and Twitter vs Mastodon.
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w/e 29 July 2018
‘Wolf Hall’ and realistic plays, ‘Brighton Rock’, Jenny Holzer, weeknotes.
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Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD by Martin Aston
My thoughts on the book about 4AD records, plus a 556 track playlist.
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w/e 22 July 2018
Nothing much to say this week, but here’s one thing that stuck in my mind. From Stewart Lee’s…
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w/e 15 July 2018
Play reading, ‘Optic Nerve’, a little Ask MeFi.
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w/e 8 July 2018
Ellsworth Kelly’s photographs; writing and filming a scene for my showreel; more Ask MeFi questions; and a happy video.
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f/e 1 July 2018
Irrepairability, Ask MetaFilter, and ‘Flowers’ season two.
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Total Perspective Vortex in D3.js
I made a sort of Total Perspective Vortex, from Hitchhiker’s Guide, using JavaScript.
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UK parliament demographics chart
I wondered how the ages of MPs and members of the House of Lords compared to the UK population so I made some charts.
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w/e 17 June 2018
A brief one this week because my MacBook’s keyboard has decided to pack in again…
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w/e 10 June 2018
People rediscovering Crazy Walls and Today’s Guardian; Half Man Half Biscuit; and finishing ‘Uncharted’ 1.
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How Soon is Now by Richard King
A few notes about, and quotes from, the book, plus a long Spotify playlist of tracks mentioned.
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w/e 3 June 2018
A new site for my work, and swimming lanes compared to shared space road designs.
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‘The Actor’s Art and Craft’ by William Esper and Damon DiMarco
My notes on the book that recounts a year’s worth of Esper teaching his variation of the Meisner acting technique.
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w/e 28 May 2018
David Byrne’s ‘How Music Works’, Ben Moor’s ‘Pronoun Trouble’, and ‘The Split’.
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w/e 20 May 2018
‘Uncharted’ 1; Elmore Leonard’s ‘Glitz’; Chamberlin, Powell and Bon; and ‘Silicon Valley’ season three.