Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
adobe cs3
Off to see a preview of Adobe CS3 tonight. Still angry at them for binning Freehand.
It will be shaking hands with the devil...
this is more of a tweet than a blog, sorry.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Pies and Prejudice
Enjoying C4 talking head and sometime Radio 2 dj Stuart Maconie's latest 'Pies and Prejudice'. A vague travelogue of the north of England (with some fairly gratuitius south-bashing for good measure). Being Scottish i'm not sure where I stand on the old north-south divide. I'm veering towards being an honorary Southerner but only because I worked in Liverpool for a while (Stuart berates cockneys for their 'thumbs in lapels cheerie-ness' but equally a pain in the arse is how everyone in Liverpool thinks they are a comedian or have stepped out of some black humour Carla Lane sitcom (howzat for sweeping generalisation!)
Heres a snippet on Hampshire (my current residence) that made me Lol on the train.
' ..I remember defence secretary Geoff Hoon using Hampshire as a reference during the early days of the invasion of Iraq when British soldiers were patrolling the city of Umm Qasr. 'Umm Quasr is a city similar to Southampton' he informed the Commons, prompting one British squaddie to reply to an interviewer, 'He's either never been to Southampton, or he's never been to Umm Quasr. Theres no beer, no prostitutes and people are shooting at us. It's more like Portsmouth'.
Friday, March 23, 2007
Spitalfields market
Nearly pee-ed myself with exitement at coming across 7inch God save the Queen ON a&m
just now in Spitalfields market, it's thursday - antiques day.
There are supposedly only around 100 of these in existence and go for around £5k.
I couldn't believe my luck when I saw this one for fifteen nicker!
Suspicions were aroused however when i noticed the pink vinyl...and another 10 copies in the same box...
Decent business idea though, press up your own batch of ultra rare records and sell them on for ten times the price of a regular 7inch. I cant remember manufacturing costs but i think a batch of a thousand would cost you a couple of hundred. not a bad return...
Spitalfield is Londons best market by far, changes everyday and not overrun by tourists like Camden, Borough nd Portobello.
Friday, March 09, 2007
another Punk book
Just finished this one, Babylons Burning by Clinton Haylin.
He's the guy who wrote Velvets to the Void Oids, another one of my favourites.
The first 3 quarters of this is one of the best books about punk ive come across - up there with Englands Dreaming etc for detail and analytical but the final quarter veers off at a tangent towards the largely insignificant so called paisley underground of the mid 80s then seems to crowbar in large sections on dull american college rock to somehow teniously link up to Nirvana and grunge. shame.
HEROES
loving this on sci-fi channel. missed it first time round but they are re-running them just now
and ive just cottoned on to downloading tv via bit-torrent so ive got the first 17 episodes queued up (although its going to take about 3 days to dowload...)
for younger readers this is an example of artist generated content. this is where people go to college and learn how to pretend to be other people (known as acting) and say words that have been written by a writer (also known as a script). This type of content was popular back in the early days of tv and is currently having a bit of a revival.
Friday, February 09, 2007
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
the wow starts...when?
Have you seen the tv ad. what a load of tosh, as if we needed more proof of the almost total irrelevance of 90% of tv advertising (unless the ad was made by Apple to make their competitor look bad). Vista is supposed to be part of new media, a tool, but the launch has a real old media smell. Microsoft (ok MSN) boo-ed me off for a job too so double stuff you to them.
Then you've got to laugh at this motley crew...waiting for the wow to start.
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
WFMU 60 second remix
enjoying this little bit of ugc.
take any song, edit and reduce it to sixty seconds or less.the winner gets a load of free records and that.
It works best with really long songs, my current fave is A Really Quick One (The Who) by a fella called Tim Scullion
Friday, January 12, 2007
Craig strikes for the over 40s!
Nice one Craig Brewster, signed on for the reds at 40 - comes on as sub in the cup v Hibs scores one and sets up the last min equaliser. Despite being twice the age of half of the rest of the field he shows how its done. As Oscar Wilde said 'Youth is wasted on the young...'
iPhone
You've got to love it. The big question is - how can they make and design such good looking, innovative stuff but still not know how to dress themselves in the morning.
Did you see the state of Jobbs' shirt and trousers...
Monday, January 01, 2007
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Friday, November 17, 2006
over exposure
Saw this article which i thought was worth sharing. More on the slow death of marketing but written with a degree of panache!
sample quote - 'We’re so niche, it’s hysterical. Don’t spend all those marketing dollars, for you’re burning out your core audience. And your only hope is that this core audience will revere you, adopt you and spread the word to others. Because you can’t REACH the others!!'
Been away for a bit so so posts for a while.
Ive got some pics of our Venice trip which I'll get up once I get near a PC.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
AVENUE Q
Went to see this at the weekend with M. Laugh out loud from start to finish.
To be fair I hate musicals and was dragged along under duress but glad i went.
Go see it if you get the chance.
Lack of updates here recently due to not being arsed. In case anyones interested the chilli harvest was a bumper one. One homegrown pepper in a pot of chilli blows yer head off. Never buying supermarket crap again. Same goes for the tomatoes, ended up giving loads away as theres too many. Had a bit of a duff year for grapes though...need to buy a book or something.
Thursday, September 21, 2006
guerilla something, not sure what
This is great. Graffiti/street artist Banksy and DJ Dangermouse (of the Grey Album and Gnarls Barclay fame) got together and messed with Paris Hilton's album.
Banksy doctored the artwork, mouse tweaked the music and then they printed them up and dumped 500 in HMVs all over London.read more about it here
or see the movie of them at it here
Bring me the Heads have kindly posted the whole package here
hey! music lover
Rapidshare have deleted my files so I've bit the bullet and done a myspace.
Its in prog but the tunes are up there.
'Pricks' and 'Saigon' at the moment.
heres the link
Monday, September 11, 2006
hey hey we're not the monkees
I'm a little bit late with this one and the whole 'consumer generated content' thing
but did find this very curious.Sponsored by Wendys and produced by Bolt media its taking the whole manufactured pop to the next level.
the 'band' is called Orangeblood' and the track 'Gunshy'
Produced entirely via Web collaboration with audience participating and voting on every aspect - from the band's name to choosing members and the tune distributed via MySpace etc.
Got this from the excellent JaffeJuice.
Tried to embed the audio but bloggers not having it so heres the link
Saturday, September 09, 2006
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