Right, leaving to go stand on a plinth for an hour. Those of you who suffer from incurable bordedom and who can’t make it along to Traf Square will be able to see me at http://www.oneandother.co.uk between the hours of 10 and 11pm UK time. You won’t be able to miss me, as I shall be wearing a white suit, to ensure that I don’t accidentally blend in with anything, and to provide passers by with maximum mockery value. Plus, I will have camera and tripod set up.
Author: Alasdair
Links For Monday 20th July 2009
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The best cocktail guide in the world is now available in searchable on-line form. Result!
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"Memory, being a phenomenon of emotion and magic, accommodates only those facts that suit it…"
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And this, right here, is why I will not buy a kindle, or purchase ebooks in a DRMed format. I would be incandescent if something like that happened to music I own, but the thought of it happening to a *book* I owned would give me an aneurysm. I mean, it's a *book*.
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I await this with some interest. The words "dynamic superhero" to describe Holmes aren't totally out of keeping with the character, assuming it's handled right, and I loved Moffat's Jekyll, and well, it's Sherlock fucking Holmes.
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Daniel Merlin Goodbrey was my collaborator on Rust, the Eagle award nominated webcomic I wrote some time around 2000. Rust was never finished, and he has since gone on to much bigger and better things, which is fitting, because he possesses far more talent and discipline than I do. He remains one of the only people I know with an genuine interest in webcomics as *web* comics, works that truly use the full toolset afforded by the possibilities of the web, instead of just treating the web as the distribution medium for a print comic – his webcomics are genuine hyperfictions that could not exist offline. He has produced a new webcomic here, and it is as good as ever. Go. Look. Learn.
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I know some people who are ambivalent about the space program. This concerns me slightly, as they give the outward signs of being normal human beings, and then they indicate that their brains are a bit strange by holding views like that. Well, here is a link explaining why basically, without the space program, we'd be living in a very different world.
One last reminder
I am on the 4th plinth in Trafalgar Square between 10pm and 11pm tomorrow (Monday) night. My plan is to take pictures of the crowd in the square. Which means I need a crowd, and in a perfect world I need the crowd to be interesting looking. So, please, if you’re at a loose end, stop by, and if you feel like dressing up, I’d be delighted.
If any of you feel like re-posting this call for interesting looking volunteers in your own journals, I’d be very grateful indeed.
Links For Thursday 16th July 2009
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By the time this is posted, I am sure you'll all have seen this link everywhere on the internet today. Don't care. Go look at these photos again. They're a record of the single grandest achievement in the history of our species. I take the piss out of people who keep asking "where's my flying car?", but secretly, I won't consider it the future until I go on holiday to a moon base.
Links For Wednesday 15th July 2009
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Whenever anyone asks me why I hate meetings and powerpoint, I am just going to point them at this. If the purpose of a presentation in a meeting is to get decisions made, then the decisions made as a result are likely to be flawed. The information should be circulated in a sensible manner pre-meeting.
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Yes. Clever stuff. Worth the read. Ties up with some back-of-the-mind thoughts I'm having at the moment.
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This should be up on the a screen in every meeting room, ever.
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Trent Reznor nails the future of not just the music business, but more or less any creative economy. Barring, of course, the disruptive new technology that will be invented next month that will render his notions moot. But y'know, it's a good summary of what everyone should have been doing for the last few years.
Links For Tuesday 14th July 2009
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OK, I need to read this in more depth when I get home tonight. I'd missed this before, and it looking like it could do some seriously interesting stuff.
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A photographer friend of mine is most of the way through a project to take photos in all 50 states of the US, and is trying to raise the cash to finish the job. If you've got a few quid to spare, please consider pitching it her way – she's bloody good, and I want to see the results of the complete project.
Genuine, For Real And Serious Question
Can anyone think of anywhere in London I can get an astronaut costume from on very short notice, and for sub 50 quid? I need it this time next week. I don’t mean an average, shitty fancy-dress-party type outfit, I mean something that actually looks within some reasonable mark of the real deal.
Links For Friday 10th July 2009
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Some really interesting picks here. I think I'm going to have to make efforts to acquire a few of the works mentioned in here that I've never read.
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Advice about dealing with Photographers given to officers by the Met. Sensible, clear, know your rights stuff. If an officer talking to you does *not* know your rights, then you might try giving them this, because after all, it's their boss telling them what they're allowed to do.
A Little Summer Music
Bruce Sterling At Reboot
Shut up and listen to the clever man.