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The tweets of 2020
(This page is under early construction - it will eventually hold all tweets made in 2020.) Jan 1, 2020My new years resolution is to be the same arsehole I was…
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Paranoid Critical
I haven’t said much about theme parks recently, even though that’s where all the pain is taking place. It seems time for a Pain Bulletin. A really long one, sorry.…
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Designing Nilamox – Rule one
Rule 1: You only want what you can’t have. If you have it, you don’t want it. If you lusted after some trophy for years, only to now have it…
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Problems with realism: The Lion King and DMT
The King is Dead I was recently taken to see the remake of The Lion King in which the characters are played by realistic 3D animals. Because I’d never actually…
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The End of the World is Coming!
What’s happening? Severed Heads will disband after performing in Chicago on September 21st 2019. The 2019 USA shows are the last in this band format.What comes next? Stewart will continue…
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In defence of Luna, and the Dark Park
In which I demand the reinstatement of all Luna Parks in Theme Park Theory and Design. I‘m very grateful again to my missus for digging up an essential research source,…
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An Orphic view of the fun fair
In which Disney’s desire to expunge Mr. Hyde from Dr. Jekyll’s fun fair is argued to be flimflam. I’m grateful to my missus for David Younger’s Theme Park Design book,…
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Sevcom 2018 Annual Report, and New Year Resolutions
2017 being such a frantic year with shows here and in North America, it was inevitable that 2018 would be anticlimactic. It was that – but at times the climate…
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Further lessons from magical kingdoms
In which we draw some technical conclusions. Sanity Clause. Before going deeper it’s worth a sanity check, in that the finances of our test subjects are beyond our reckoning. The…
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Narrative, Media Art and Donald Duck
In which I go looking in Halloween USA for the pumpkin spice of contemporary media art, and find that interaction design is better done with personalities than push-buttons. I’m in…