Wim Delvoye´s talk at Ars Electronica

Photos: Special delivery: Your house in a box | CNET News.com

Stouffer is a San Fransisco based graphic artist - I’ve put this up less for my research, and more because there is some great work here, hope she doesn’t mind me using the image. . .

Finally the laser projectors are starting to make an appearance - Photos: Tiny movie projector fits in a phone | CNET News.com

I’m planning on starting from scratch with my present install of OS X - get everything tidy before the next update goes on sale.

I want to keep addresses (Plaxo), some of my Safari bookmarks and all my mail (which desperately needs sorting out) as well as all my media, or what’s left after recently dropping my external notebeek hard drive!!! But there’s also a slew of applications that I wouldn’t want to run my mac without, some of them are so embedded in my using the OS that I probably wouldn’t think to name them unless I thought about it.

There’s also a nice write-up about indispensable apps entitled Make your Mac a monster machine, got me back to playing with Dragthing but I can’t say as I dug ASM or fruitmenu. Can’t win ‘em all.

So here it is, my list of ‘apps-that-I-can’t-do-without-so-I-remember-to-install-them-when-I-wipe-my-MBP’: No doubt I’ll be adding to this list for a while

So I left Gojira a few months ago - things were really hectic and I needed some space to get my self on track again. That’ll probably be the situation for a long while yet as I’ve realised that time is the most important thing that I can give my course to make the most of it. However, I’m making a guest appearance at this Sunday’s Sub Bass Sunday (18/06/06) - Gojira’s charity gig for Edith’s Home.

It’s gonna be a blast - follow the above links for more details

Technorari Tags: Gojira, Edith’s home

A brilliant video as part of an inspired media campaign by Control Arms: Control Arms - teleshopping

Technorari Tags: control arms, Arms Trade

The list of ‘Your Drafts’ has been getting longer at the top of the admin page for this blog - not thinking anythink of it I’ve just let them get on with it until now! - so all the posts that were on the site but marked as drafts are now officially published, the only problem being that they’re all out of sync and it must look like I’ve written a lot today. Which I haven’t. Apologies.

Edit:

I’ve now deleted all the extra posts. Please return quietly to your homes.

On Saturday Mel and I went for a romantic walk in the park. Unfortunately I forgot to leave my over-developed sense of adventure at home and whilst jumping a metal fence I made a bit of a mess of my hand. The medical term is a ‘degloving injury’ and that’s pretty much what happened! Fortunately the wonderful Dan Pooley was about to pick us up and whisk us to the hospital. I figured they would irrigate and stitch the wound and give me a course of anti-biotics, turns out it was too deep for that and I needed to be admitted for surgery under a general anaesthetic! Well, it was an experience seeing the hospital from the other side, let me tell you!

The reality is that I should have lost the use of the finger but I actually have both full movement and full sensation in the tip which is unbelievable! I’ll need Physio follow up for a few weeks too.

Anyway, the upshot of all this tom-foolery is that I’m not allowed to work for six weeks! I don’t know how it’s going to affect my course (I’m glad we got Temporary Assignment out of the way last week - a write-up is on it’s way) but just typing this out is proving to be a struggle.

For those of you who may be interested - I took a few pics (Only after the main bandage was applied) but it gives you an idea - only click on the ‘read the rest of this entry’, if you don’t mind a bit of gore.

SteamSHIFT will be pleased!

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Binary Bonsai: Homepage of Michael Heilemann, who designed the Kubrick template on which my blog is now based. I’ve spent a lot of the morning trying to make the blog look and feel more like I want it to which as a novice CSS user has taken me quite a while. I’d still like to add an archive (Rather than the ‘Recently’ column) but that’s probably a bit beyond me at the moment.

I’m trying to get the blog up to speed for when the new laptop arrives as I should be able to use it more like a sketch-book - immediately putting up ideas and using it as a sounding board.

Other blog sites worth looking at:

• Tao of Mac, uses Kubrick and has done some very slick work on it.
• K2, another project that Michael Heilemann’s involved in.
• Postnuke
• 9 Rules, not really related but I found it on my travels
• Redalt’s Kubrick tool
• & CSS garden gets a mention just because it’s awesome

Lenticular. Wicked.

I love Engadget. They tell fantastic stories about coffee tables controlled by slime, well protected skiers and tiny eeny-weeny projectors.

Everyday is a new series of fairytales - sometimes I just don’t know how I remember them all!

Okay so I’m somewhat troubled by recent news. Not the bus crash in Egypt nor the tensions in the middle east. No, the thing I’m really struggling with at the moment is the discussion about the bill which threatens free speech and the curiously timed issue of the cartoon depictions of Allah and Mohammed.

I’m not trying to add to the problem, if anything in these situations I like to feel that given the opportunity I would dig in to find a solution. On the other hand however, I feel that we must have an ability to be critical (in an objective sense) of current issues, without criticising the individuals involved.

I am of the opinion that discussion, even the kind that might be uncomfortable and sometimes upset, is essential to personal and cultural development provided it is done to primarily provoke thought and further discussion, not anger. Although I do accept that anger may be an effect of discussion, if open discourse (rather than personal feeling or grievances) is central then there should be an opportunity to apologise for personal levels of insult without having to alter the actual substance of your view on the matter.

To lay the scene, I’ve just woken up (approx. 06:35 GMT) following a strange but unrelated dream, and the first thing on my mind was this issue. It struck me that there are a lot of similarities between this and the Jerry Springer show. This came up in conversation with SteamSHIFT last night over curry but the details have probably been ordering themselves in my sleep.

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So there’s lots of reports of Apple’s new patents coming out

Check them out here, here and here

But what happens when you combine them with the really exquisite design of Kub.

I flippin’ love Kub’s work - someone should be employing this guy. Seriously!

Just pulling some threads together. . . .
Maybe I should’ve waited before ordering that MBP - Nah!

God of Surprises, lent to me by Matt Harrison, this book “is a guide book to the inner journey in which we are all engaged and has much to say to those who have a love/hate relationship with the Church to which they belong or once belonged.” (from the blurb)

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Quartz composer rocks. SteamSHIFT has been using it for our Gojira gigs and the work he’s been churning out is just awesome - and it keeps getting better! My Mac wont run it because it just isn’t fast enough but I’m dead keen on getting my grubby paws on a machine that will. (Maybe Santa/S.Jobs will give one of those not-yet-quite-released Intel Macs for Christmas. . . . )

Anyhoo, check out some of SteamSHIFT’s work here

Received an email from a PhD student at Liverpool university on the back of the perception work I did last year. It took me an age to get back to him but having written to him I had a look at his website - he’s doing some awesome stuff!

I’d be chuffed to bits to be able to revisit the work I did last year as I don’t feel I ever finished or concluded it. We’ll see. In the mean time Check out his site