January 2012
29 posts
I finally finished that song that I claimed I... →
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“When virtual reality gets cheaper than dating, society is doomed.”
– SCOTT ADAMS, Dogbert
China cancer village tests reach of law against pollution
Students: Stop moaning about your dissertations. Please.
As she laid the polker dotted silk scarf around my neck she proclaimed ‘now you look like an artist’.
My heart sank in my chest. She had confused artist with hippy. I truly was in the presence of stupidity. ——————————— Update. That was a bit harsh. I take it back.
why Indonesian kids are crazy for punk →
5 minute documentary.
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Breaking down the barriers of language
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
im sorry but i have no idea what that means
it means you need to have been intoxicated to be creative
ay?
you need to get fucked up to be able to do shit good
oh
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The time I got drunk and went to the library at...
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NB: What is that?
MF: Fish blood.
I like to work in bed. Today work is watching century of the self and eating blueberry cheesecake brownies.
Freakin’ awesome.
Goodnight
Went to see the Black Tambourines.. They were really good
We formed a band with some people
Went home to get money
We went to 5DB
Jacob invited every man there to a gay orgy at Nichs house
I talked to the DJ who was playing really good garage music
We got kicked out for insinuating that people there loved penises
I slapped Jacob twice for calling Jack a homophobe.
Jacob tried to hit an...
WatchNeil Gershenfeld on Fab Labs I think I want to work in a fab lab for a while and learn some important things and make some stupid things.
“Under the basic principals of English law, every man is innocent until...”
– Paedofinder General
Bideford in Quotes →
I’ve just finished a 6 hour project of gathering quotes from people who have visited or live in Bideford, Devon. Trying to give a bit of backup to my opinion of the place. I didn’t include their names though. That would be an intrusion as quotes were off the record.
The Quantic soul orchestra - Babarabatiri
“The range of what we think and do
is limited by what we fail to notice.
And...”
– Daniel Goleman on the psychology of self-deception
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Zombie by the Cranberries by Andrew Jackson Jihad...
“bideford is like the worst place ever
worse than torrington and south molton”
– Kilburn
Mark Sultan - Status
defining a dickheads cruel
The way you dress, I couldn’t give a shit about it as long as it’s not repulsive to see. I’m more interested in the metaphysical values and wonder you hold.
If you talk about material objects I’ll lose interest. If you tell me a good story, or express a new way of thinking I’ll love it.
Lots of people I know loved that song about ‘dickheads’.
But...
Kaleidoscopic glasses production blog post 1
I’ve bought the Kaleidoscopes.
I have the Arduino board.
I have the Arduino Cookbook and Programming Interactivity.
I’m still waiting for advice on where to source a decent microphone. The cookbook says to use the BOB-08669
This item has been discontinued and upgraded to the BOB-09964
Clearly they made a lot of changes.
I’m going to use the sketch that makes...
Remnants of 2011
The postman just came to deliver my workload.
In an attempt to avoid starting that interest fest for another 10 minutes I cleared out all of the old photos on my phone. They are crap but this is where I am going to keep them. I don’t make you follow this blog. If it bores you, stop reading it. It’s like the bin for my brain anyway.
In short, skip this post.
First thing is first, I...
Reading List
Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
Sherry Turkle
Reinventing Ourselves: Contemporary Concepts of Identity in Virtual Worlds (Springer Series in Immersive Environments)
Anna Peachey, Mark Childs
Being Virtual: Who You Really are Online (Science Museum TechKnow Series)
Davey Winder
Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually...
defining battlestations
It is important to compartmentalise different tasks in order to keep order while working. I have chosen window desk as ‘dissertation desk’. Although much time spent on dissertation work will be during the night time at the library.
This desk also houses change, keys and camera. This is because as a reward for completing certain tasks I will treat myself to trips around town to take...
Student loan is in.... and out again
Books are expensive but I won’t make the switch to kindle until digital books become transferable. Simply because when I finish reading something, I want to give it to someone else who will enjoy it. You can’t do that with a kindle.
If kindle introduce a book sharing feature, so I can swap PDFs with a friend. or lend to a friend. Then, maybe, I could see it as a good thing.
Perhaps...
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December 2011
28 posts
I’ve taken this oppertunity of peace and quiet to do dissertation work and eat angel delight.
One hour until 2012.
2 months until dissertation hand in.
Priority correct.
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WatchShea Hembrey: How I became 100 artists
How do you stage an international art show with work from 100 different artists? If you’re Shea Hembrey, you invent all of the artists and artwork yourself — from large-scale outdoor installations to tiny paintings drawn with a single-haired brush. Watch this funny, mind-bending talk to see the explosion of creativity and diversity of skills a...
Do you think, if I rigged a Unilight set up to a digital camera (webcam and Arduino) I could make it
Flash
Read the colours
Flash a second time projecting a calculated match of colours
Take a photo of the subject
If this is possible it could shit all over the colorsplash. It could read from set colour patterns and fire back light that creates a well balanced image.
Or would the light fired...
I know all but one of the people from Bideford couchsurfing. I guess that means I have friendly friends.
A short thought pattern in quotes
Good clothes open all doors.
Thomas Fuller
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
Jean de La Fontaine
How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
Elizabeth Gaskell
I’m talking as a professional impresario. I’m not judging anybody at all.
Norman Granz
I can’t judge any of you....
Spiral galaxies are flat due to the accumulated angular momentum that exist in all satellite systems,which make up the spiral Galaxy. A galaxy is not a satellite system as the outer arms are locked in step with the galactic center,like spokes of a wheel. Cosmologists invented dark matter to stop them from flying apart but activity at the galactic center is the driving force of it’s...
Stop synthetic clothes manufacturers
Slaughter your own animals for their fur.
The natural, organic solution.
Bad Guts?
Well here is a remedy straight from a Sicilian pharmacist.
Get a litre of water
4 bay leaves
3 slices of orange (with rind)
Boil for about half an hour.
Drink the lot.
Hopefully you should stop shitting yourself.
We played Spoons for shots of home made sloe gin.
I lost Black Maria because I was too drunk to concentrate.
We used Troll pen toppers instead of spoons. They were pretty naked for wheetos toys.
Matt stabbed a hole in my palm with a pencil. We were close to a punch up on Christmas. Oh Brother.
Got a new decent soldering iron from my old man. I’m going to be playing with Arduinos soon.
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Grumpy old fucks
I’m in a room where there is one of those grumpy old fucks at christmas programmes on. I say it like that because I don’t want to give the impression I want to watch it. They are complaining about christmas and I do not think the 23:00 slot on BBC Two should be taken up by something that seems like a Daily Mail recruitment video. It’s attempting to reaffirm outdated stereotypes.
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I am analogue
The internet is to information as Digital photography is to analogue. It’s good if I want instant results, but it looses some of the magic.
I like that I have a drawer full of films I haven’t developed yet and that I have forgotten what is on them. They span the last 3 years of university. I will get them developed when I leave. This means at the time of graduation I will trigger...
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I’m pretty good at bitching and whining. I have been thinking of writing a homage to Nietzsche’s ‘Why I am so wise’. ‘Why I am so annoyed’ will tell the tail of how social interaction has accounted for pretty much every annoyance in my existence.
You will feature largely. I’m not going to publish it. I’m going to finish it, Read it and throw it...
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The Filaments - Men of the law I used to post a...
Dear friends and family, If you receive a Christmas present from us this year, consider it a tax refund. Yours The unemployed.
It’s like someone trying to paint me into a shit painting and I keep having to rip myself off the canvas. It would be easier to burn the painting but it’s the artist that has to go. So much nonsense flying around at the moment. None of it is remotely important to anyone. Just let me walk the dog in peace.
Talk to frank still won’t publish my positive LSD stories.
Impartial my artial.
According to folk...
Ginger people don’t have souls
Dogs don’t have souls either.
I’d rather spend eternity walking dogs with my ginger friends than hanging around with a load of religious people who don’t drink, casually fuck or throw rocks at cats.
I wish I was Ginger.
Although. There would be no afterlife if you didn’t have a soul.
Do all Atheists wish they were ginger?
Ginger...
