The Most Exciting Blog Post That I’ve Not Managed to Understand in the Slightest

by Iain on April 30, 2009

I think it’s stuff that can be done in processing in 140 characters. Which is really cool. But there’s something about this post that makes me feel really tiny and stupid. Which I am. Obviously. Obligatory buttons:

A Work of Brilliance

by Iain on April 30, 2009

Dear Andy Whitlock, I love what you have done with these photographs from Campaign. I wish I had done this. You describe your work like this: Lots of ad-folk look very serious in their profile pictures in magazines like Campaign. (…)

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Is This Wabi-Sabi?

by Iain on April 27, 2009

I’ve been moderately obsessed by the concept of Wabi-Sabi after seeing a documentary about it the other night. It’s far too complicated for me to understand or explain. In fact it seems to complicated for almost everyong to understand. Richard (…)

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Easter 09 – Another One of Those Mixes

by Iain on April 27, 2009

Sorry it’s been a while. This was done at the weekend when it was nice and sunny outside. Instead of trying to milk a goat, catch a leprechaun, make friends with my neighbours, learn the flute or anything else so (…)

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Reactable / ImTable Performance

by Iain on April 26, 2009

This has been around for a while but to my mind it’s one of the better ‘table’ performances I’ve seen. Again it’s all a bit cheesy and Jarre-like – but given the Tron suit he’s wearing I’m not sure he’d (…)

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The Perils of Sponsorship

by Iain on April 22, 2009

If you sponsor ‘documentaries’ as a genre. Or even if you sponsor catch-up TV it could happen. You may end up inadvertently sponsoring a program about a guy who dies whilst being loved by a horse. Reminds me of a (…)

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Things to do to escape your computer (or TV)

by Iain on April 20, 2009

…hire a bike or roller skates or a boat. Please help by adding to this in the comments. Following on from this weekend’s activities. I’ve been thinking about what a great bunch of things Jason set me to do. All (…)

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Earning Eternal Respect In 48 Hours The Twitter Way

by Iain on April 20, 2009

I had a fun weekend this weekend. Thanks to a number of things. 1. Weekends are good anyway. 2. The weather was pretty nice. 3. I did normal stuff with Sophie like have nice lunches. Laze around. Drink a bit (…)

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The Making of Mr Oizo

by Iain on April 19, 2009

Mr Oizo is probably best known for the whole Flat Eric thing. Which apparently as well as soundtracking he also directed, which was new news to me. Since then he’s made lots of banging electronic music. Most of which is (…)

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Rave-Speak

by Iain on April 14, 2009

I spotted these two posters on the way to work this morning. I just liked the way they’d turned over-used and cliched rave commands / MC chat into polite questions. It makes them sound so very British. And you know (…)

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