I was astonished to discover that there are people in the world who haven’t heard this, and very specifically that one of them is tyrell, who, I suspect will be cheering along with this. So I am posting it, just in case anyone else hasn’t heard it, because as far as I’m concerned, this should be played in every school in the country as part of a balanced RE syllabus.
Author: Alasdair
Decadence
To say I have mixed feelings about this shot is understating it. It’s one of a *very* few shots I like from Last Days of Decadence the other week – I’ll be putting the others up on flickr at some point in the next week, and might put one or two more up on here, but honestly, I really don’t like much from that shoot.
The other reason I have mixed feelings is the technique I’ve used here. I have been known to get a bit strident about this “only one detail in colour” approach. I think it’s generally a crutch use to balance inadequacy in other parts of the photo. And yes, that’s exactly what it is here. This shot more or less works without the effect – the eye is drawn to the same place, it’s just that having stark greeny-blue light throughout leaves the shot a bit garish. (Which is my problem with the whole shoot, and why I like so few of the shots I’ve got.)
Anyway, I’m rambling. Look at the man and his pretty green drink, won’t you?
links for 2009-06-12
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I saw this linked, and assumed it was an Onion headline, but it's not. This is a real thing. Fucking hell. I don't know whether to be impressed or saddened.
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People occasionally ask me why I'm quite militant about only every using my real name on-line, owning several domain names of my name, and generally doing my best to get my name, or a basic variant on it as a username whenever possible, and it's this: I do not want Facebook, or any similar service to be the primary marker of my identity when people look me up on line. I wish to have control over my on-line identity and how people encounter it, not give it up to a third party, and the best way to do that is to be open and clear about who I am everywhere. So I have slightly mixed feelings about this facebook URLs business – on the one hand, I'm going to have to try and get my name on there, but on the other, I'd really rather not improve the chances of my profile there beating out something that I actually control as the marker of my digital identity.
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One of London's very finest unsigned bands have just released this first mini album full of absolutely superb tribal pop that is a perfect soundtrack to summer. It'll cost you all of a fiver, and at that price, you cannot afford not to own it.
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Exactly was it says on the tin. Except better than you're thinking it is. Seriously, it's ace, go look.
Links For Thursday 11th June 2009
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I had the same text as part of my course back in 1995 (I think everyone did), and am quite taken with some Matt's ideas here, in particular, the term "Thingfrastructure".
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I'm not sold on the cutsey look, or the metaphors they've chosen, but still: this is the future of business cards right here. I look forward to being able to get a grown-up variant on this.
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This is the best insight into the nature of gaming I have seen in ages. Whether you're a PC gamer, tabletop gamer or LARPer, I cannot recommend reading this highly enough. If you run RPGs, and are not devoting a significant chunk of your time to ensuring that a variation on this is the experience your players get, then you are doing it wrong.
No Need To Thank Me
And many more works of the Special Unicorn Tattoo Magic (including an old favourite) available here.
Links For Tuesday 2nd June 2009
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Hugh and Alex are up to the brand of idiocy that makes me proud to call them my friends: they're cooking not one, but two recipes from three-Michelin-star chefs with a fondness for extremely complicated cooking procedures, and they're going it live on the internet tonight. I strongly suggest you watch. And heckle them on twitter.
Links For Monday 1st June 2009
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June 28th, Double feature of Helvetica and Objectified at the Barbican. I've seen Helvetica, and could happily watch it again, but not Objectified. Anyone fancy a double bill of design documentaries?
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Has anyone used this operation? Or anything similar? While I've got time machine, I have no offsite backups, which bugs me slightly. Particularly curious about the system performance impact of their background process, and also what kind of bandwidth useage spikes I could expect to see.
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A summary of the conference I spent a chunk of Friday watching over the web. Sounds like the presentation they killed the video on was completely fascinating. I'm still processing of of the ideas I came away with, and doing my best to make sure they don't leak into anything else.
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This is some seriously impressive shit.
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Someone has managed to get a ZX-81 on the internet as a webserver. Awesome.
Circa Burlesque 6
Another shot from my Circa Burlesque set – I have such a backlog of photos at the moment, it’s not funny – I never did finish sorting out the Toronto pics, and I’ve can another few hundred from Last Days of Decadence on Friday to sort out, and I’m off to Amsterdam at the weekend, and basically, it’s all gotten a bit photo-tastic round here of late, which is no bad thing…
Links For Saturday 30th May 2009
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I'm sure 90% of you have no interest in the ongoing ludicrousness of Apple's iTunes App Store approvals process. But the three of you that have been paying attention to it will probably find this as funny as I did.
Circa Burlesque 8
Another set of White Mischief pics uploaded – this time, of Circa Burlesque. Some of these pics may not be safe for work, depending on how conservative your workplace is.