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Wow, Eudora supports fuck all. I gave up on Eudora years ago, but serious: what's their excuse?
The Wisdom of Bill Drummond
“Yeah, I know we all need to recharge and reassess where we are going. We need to make mistakes and sometimes we need the comfort that only a Rich Tea biscuit or baked beans on toast can give. But bring on the unknown, and risk all on the art yet to come.” – from his book, “17”.
Been meaning to post that quote for a week or two, since I read the book. Drummond is the only artist I know who has made art criticism into art in and of itself, and I recommend his books unreservedly.
Auld Reekie
I feel less annoyed about this one than I do the other, despite the fact that it’s a worse picture, mostly because this genuinely was a quick snap while I was passing, without really giving it any thought at all. That’s because I took this first, not knowing that 24 hours later, I would be passing a matching piece in Glasgow, and had I not been able to get something I vaguely liked out of the Glasgow one, this would never have seen the light of day.
No Mean City
Outboard Brain
Since almost everyone I have spoken to it reckons that http://photogr.aphi.st is a rubbish domain name for selling photos through (and on reflection, I am inclined to agree, on the basis that the better-punctuated http://photo.graphi.st/ is someone else’s site) I need a URL to start selling photos through at some point in the not-too-distant future. I lack inspiration, and would welcome suggestions. Anyone got any clever ideas?
And a secondary concern – do any of these prices seem wildly unreasonable:
15 quid for an unframed A4 print on good quality matte stock, 25 quid for framed.
20 quid for an unframed A4 print on good quality glossy stock, 30 quid for framed.
Frames are good quality A4 size clipframes.
P&P not included.
(In case anyone’s curious, I would recommend framed matte. Gloss looks a bit weird under glass.)
Links For Saturday 16th August 2008
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Must grab this for my home machine, and spend some time playing with it.
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He got Bill Drummond's recommendation in his new book 17 (about which more another time), and Drummond's recommendation is usually enough for me to at least be interested. I've grabbed a recording of his "Berliner Messe" off Emusic, and well, yeah. I'm not much for classical music, because it really demands more concentration than I usually give music, but this is very nice.
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This is something I would like to learn to do better.
Can you guess what's on my mind today, boys and girls?
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Hmmm. If this works like it says it does, I may set it up on my home account – my ISP's Spam filtering is good, but not close to perfect, mostly because I can't be arsed to set up proper whitelisting, so instead I have to run at at a low enough level that it doesn't kill even close to all my spam.
Links For Friday 15th August 2008
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Look, I know that from time to time, I post these stories, and it could just be viewed as US-bashing. And I'm also aware that on a civil liberties front, the UK is actually rather behind the US in many ways. But this one is really something special, and should spread far and wide. I don't even have the energy to be angry about it, because I'm busy being stunned and horrifed that this can happen.
This an account of how a the US system accidentally tortured an innocent man to death through bureaucracy, jobsworth-ism and plain lack of decent human feeling. There is no "security" that can possibly be worth this price.
Lunchtime Food Meme
The Very Good Taste Omivore’s 100: Things Everyone Should Eat. I’ve eaten it, I really must get around to eating it.
Electric Dance
I decided to spend some time going back through old photos, looking for things I didn’t post at the time. So here’s a bit of abstract stuff from about 18 months ago that I had completely forgotten about, and rather like. I’m quite happy with the structure to it, that you can clearly track the various movements of the camera as it was shot.
In other news, I bought a photo printer at the weekend, that produces good quality A4 prints. So when I have the spare time, I’m going to be setting up a on-line store to flog framed prints through.
So if there’s a particular shot of mine that you like enough that you’d pay 15-20 quid to have hanging on your wall (I need to do maths yet on the price of paper, inks, frames and shipping to work out how to show a small profit on the things, but I think 15 quid is probably in the right ballpark), do please let me know. I don’t have everything at printable res, but I’ve got got quite a lot.
Rainy Saturday
It’s grey and miserable out there, and I’m in the office. Welcome to the weekend. I don’t strictly *need* to be, but I figure it’s better to start doing a few small chunks of overtime now, in the hope that I don’t have to watch my entire life getting swallowed by this project this time next month. Last time we did this sort of thing, I did 14 straight days in the office, finishing up with working from 10am Sunday morning to 3am Monday morning, and I was definitely getting a bit peculiar toward the end there.
Still, it is the weekend: distract me. Tell me interesting things – what good books have you read recently? What websites have made you think? Why is this summer’s predominant weather so basically bloody miserable? Can I have that thing when you’re done using it?