#iranelection
June 18, 2009
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Web 2.0 Is A Bit Rubbish
June 11, 2009
We’re in a world where the mainstream social networks want any and all people to boost user numbers for the big selloff and are not concerned with the quality of experience.
Trent Reznor
via The Quietus
Chelak Maxim
March 14, 2009
Photo Chelak Maxim
The POKE lomo wall
February 23, 2009
A photographer friend, MrLomo and I were asked by POKE (where I work as a developer) to create a photography piece for our reception area.
With over 700 photos in total it took a few weeks to plan and put together and this is the final ‘worth-it-all’ result.
nerds
February 13, 2009
mom, you know what nerds are? it’s candy and it’s awesome.
via a tweet by Paige Maguirehttp://www.flux-rad.com/
everyone’s doing it
January 05, 2009
My top artists for 2008 according to last.fm
Karting mayhem
December 02, 2008
More Sunday go-karting mayhem at Daytona Sandown Park. Again, brilliantly organised by my very good friend Nigel. It was a ridiculaously wet track and 16 of us raced in treacherous conditions. Always good fun.
The geek on the left is me, in third place. Philip Prew in second on the right and Andrew “Lighting McQueen” Froggatt, top center in first place.
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
November 25, 2008
Headless Heroes
November 25, 2008
Alela Diane’s new covers project that features a particularly beautiful rendition of ‘To You’ by ’I Am Kloot‘.
On repeat…
the money thing is the most boring part of everything
October 03, 2008
so when people who are songwriters say, “That’s my property and if you give it away for free then I lose my incentive,” then, well, good riddance.
I was 8 when Minor Threat formed in 1980. Way too young. I didn’t properly discover music until about ‘85. I inherited a big old record player and all my Mums records form the ‘60’s: Dylan, The Rolling Stones, lots of Donovan.
Perhaps five years later, must have been some time in 1990 the year I finished high school, I remember being at a friends house and hearing Minor Threat and Fugazi for the first time. It blew my mind. He was a French Mauritian skate kid. Definitely a bad influence. We hung out and smoked cigarettes (not very straight edge I know). We would often nick his dads (his dad had a shady history preserving French interests as a mercenary, ironically) strong French cigarettes and cheap bottles of wine. Those were happy days. We’d skate. Occasionally we’d surf (badly). We’d get drunk and smoke more cigarettes. And our soundtrack was Fugazi. Always Fugazi.
It opened the door to the grunge of Hüsker Dü, Nirvana (of course) and Screaming Trees (the talented but troubled Mark Lanegan) and then began a long love affair with Sonic Youth and all things Thurston Moore (who I admire in a similar way to Ian MacKaye. As much for his music as his outlook). They’re the reason why today I’m drawn to the raw punk energy of bands like Japanther (pictured), Sic Alps, No Age.
The record industry is in the process of atrophying but the music industry is thriving. I really believe that. Thanks to the internet I’m listening to more music now than I ever have. I’m always discovering new exciting bands and rediscovering old ones. And if I hear something and it blows my mind, you’d better believe I go and try and buy the fucking record. It’s exciting times and it’s creative people like Ian MacKaye that fill me with optimism. I want to believe that the future doesn’t belong to big whoring businessmen. I want it to belong to the people who make and create. In any case, creativity thrives in the absence of and regardless of money.
My position is that the money thing is the most boring part of everything and I find it much more interesting and engaging to be part of a community where money and contracts are not the central conversation, and that’s what happened to music.
This resonates very deeply with me. Not just in music but in everything I do.
Read the interview with Ian MacKaye at downhillbattle.org
Quotes by Ian MacKaye taken from the interview. Photo of Ian Vanek of Japanther is my own.
Poundland
September 26, 2008
You know that Poundland in Bromley hasn’t changed its prices since the nineties.
My good friend MrLomo
socialise losses
September 18, 2008
We privatise profits; we socialise losses.
Michael Greenberger, a former director at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Photograph: Cheryl Ravelo/Reuters
Hugh Holland
September 17, 2008
“In 1975, when Hugh Holland first began photographing the skateboarders in southern California, he had already been living in Los Angeles for nine years. His interest in photography had developed in the mid-sixties as a 20-year-old living in his native state of Oklahoma. Except for a college job working in a photo lab, Holland had no formal art education. He spent years training his eye by shooting photographs and working with the images”
Biting the bullet
September 10, 2008
Right. I’ve got myself a slice and today marks day one of my migration from MediaTemple to Slicehost. I’m going to document the whole process as best I can in the hope that it will be useful to others. No hard feeling MediaTemple but you’re making me look bad. Your C Panel is amazing and your support second to none but my slice is slow and I’m not paying $20 for a Django container. Let’s go…
Truckasaurus
September 05, 2008
I‘m smitten. I’ve not felt this way about a band since I first heard Red Snapper back in ‘96. Prince Blimey blew all my preconceptions and ‘musical rules’ away in an album that I rate very highly even today, more than 10 years on. I’m reminded of Red Snapper a lot whilst listening to ‘Tea Parties, Guns and Valor’. Listen to the Knuckle Buckemruff (Basic Remix). It’s ’The Sleepless‘ in 8 bit.
‘Rise of the Idiots‘ they are not. You can be forgiven for thinking so. On first glance they show all the signs of affected ’hipsters‘. But these guys have got skills. Real talent. The music is intelligent and exciting and if you need proof of that just watch the “Street Truck” Video by Trent Moorman. The percussion is astounding!
As an aside, I’m also excited to hear to that Red Snapper’s new album is eminent. Pale Blue Dot. Out on the 28th October on Lo Recordings. Masterful stuff!
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