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Baggage and Luggage.
Baggage. Luggage. The shit you cart around with you – stuffed in your wallet, falling out of your backpack, shoved into drawers and cupboards. That’s bad – but I’m not…
Posted inRanting
Be an eBay Folk Artist for Fun and Profit.
Walking the hallowed halls of eBay you will be struck by the quantity of fine folk art on offer. Something for every taste, from UFO aliens to Ronald Reagan to…
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Things I will miss from giving up media teaching.
Tim Burton.“My character idea is called Frank Skelly. He’s kind of like a character from a Tim Burton movie. So he lives in this graveyard and it’s spooky but at…
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Dear Diary
Dear diary I know I haven’t written anything here for a while but there’s been a lot going on in what we call the ‘real world’. And I should mention…
Life Hacks for the recently widowed
I am a widower. You got knocked down, but you get back up. Everybody finds their way again, and these are some ways I am doing it. Set a deadline.…
Posted inTechnology Critique
We have to talk about Virtual Reality
It’s VR talk time, you’re old enough. Let’s get this out of the way – 3D television died, Google glasses died, everything is bad, why try anything let’s just sit…
Posted inAdmin Severed Heads
We Sold Out!
Since 2006 we’ve been selling digital music streams through a UK publisher. We were one of their 1st customers, invited to join. Nothing wrong with doing it this way, but…
Posted inTechnology Critique
Is cinematography a biological technology? Probably not
Here’s a thing – if you run Deleuze through a piece of cloth and strain out all the poo, you end up with some reasonable, if fairly simple ideas. (Of…
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Back on the VR rollercoaster
Here you see a CINERAMA screen, from 1952. CINERAMA was a big hit in that year. A standard film of the time would fit in the middle screen only. So…
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Poland. That’s Not Too Far.™
So then, Europe. We are on the way to Poland later this year. True! It is a very long way to go to be in one city. Perhaps you thought…