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ianoncedidvizdev: Some characters for a cool project starting...

Mon, 06 May 2013 13:34:31 +0100

ianoncedidvizdev:

Some characters for a cool project starting to take shape… Stay tuned.

I have started working with the excellent Ian Laser Higginbotham on something. Something mysterious.

A drunk joke.

Fri, 03 May 2013 10:40:08 +0100

A drunk joke.

Illumiroom: a Microsoft experiment in projection mapping your...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:26:29 +0100

Illumiroom: a Microsoft experiment in projection mapping your living room while you game.

Thanks, autocorrect, for helping me realise that things could...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 22:13:46 +0100

Thanks, autocorrect, for helping me realise that things could always be worse.

I don’t know how intuitive this could all be made to feel,...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:49:00 +0100

I don’t know how intuitive this could all be made to feel, but an interesting demo of ebook page turning developed to accommodate more ways of flicking through a book.

I made an animated gif to go with an essay I wrote, just like...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:15:00 +0100

I made an animated gif to go with an essay I wrote, just like Hannah Arendt used to.

The essay’s about They Live (and Jonathan Lethem, and literary snobbishness).

A long, good talk on copyright and whether the current system is...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:03:24 +0100

A long, good talk on copyright and whether the current system is sustainable.

"There are so many of us on hunger strike now that there aren’t enough qualified medical staff..."

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:26:48 +0100

“

There are so many of us on hunger strike now that there aren’t enough qualified medical staff members to carry out the force-feedings; nothing is happening at regular intervals. They are feeding people around the clock just to keep up.

During one force-feeding the nurse pushed the tube about 18 inches into my stomach, hurting me more than usual, because she was doing things so hastily. I called the interpreter to ask the doctor if the procedure was being done correctly or not.

”

- Hunger striking at Guantanamo Bay

"‘Lewis’s Law’ (coined by journalist Helen Lewis) holds that ‘the comments on any..."

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:22:00 +0100

“‘Lewis’s Law’ (coined by journalist Helen Lewis) holds that ‘the comments on any article about feminism justify feminism.’”

- Beautiful.

/quote from this Wired article.

"Scotland Yard has already asked protesters planning to turn their backs on the coffin as the funeral..."

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:48:37 +0100

“Scotland Yard has already asked protesters planning to turn their backs on the coffin as the funeral carriage passes to let them know in advance.”

- Please alert the authorities if you intend to rotate.

http://vimeo.com/63811200

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:06:42 +0100

http://vimeo.com/63811200

colchrishadfield: Crying

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:02:30 +0100

colchrishadfield:

Crying

"For the sake of a legal defence, [the Catholic archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh, brought to..."

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 11:36:47 +0100

“For the sake of a legal defence, [the Catholic archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh, brought to court by a man claiming he was abused and raped by his parish priest in the 90s] have denied that one of their objectives is to “spread the word of God”. And they have claimed they had no power to move or remove the priest, or to control – or even direct – his activities.”

- In the Observer: a long and extremely sad investigation into decades of abuse and cover-up in the Scottish Catholic Church, who have seen ‘scandalising the faithful’ as the greater sin, and worked ceaselessly to protect abusers from their victims.

Photo

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 19:42:08 +0100

Sculpture by Do Ho Suh

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:21:24 +0000

Sculpture by Do Ho Suh

That These Children's Speech is Bad

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:47:00 +0000

From Albert Angelo by B.S. Johnson

Proposition: That These Children’s Speech is Bad.
For the Proposition: Miss Crossthwaite.
Against the Proposition: Mr. Albert.

Miss Crossthwaite said that they all knew the speech of children at this school to be bad: every time one of them opened his or her mouth to speak the result was almost invariably hideous, an offence to the ears. Their speech was slovenly, like their personal habits.

Mr. Albert said that ‘bad’, ‘hideous’, and ‘slovenly’, were not words that could be meaningfully used about speech: a child saying prize for praise was using the same sound as in the word prize. The sound itself was not ‘wrong’, therefore, buts its context was not that of so-called standard speech: accurately, it was only a matter of social context that sounds could be described as misplaced. Often the different sound produced by these children required more phonetic effort to produce (for example, the glottal stop) that the one it replaced: how then could such speech be described as ‘slovenly’? The offence to Miss Crossthwaite’s lovely ears, Mr. Albert suggested, came about because these children were not speaking as she spoke herself, these children were not imposing the same pattern on their worlds as she imposed on hers: for who approves, Mr. Albert quoted Petronius without attribution, of conduct unlike his own? For communication within their own social context, the speech of these children was perfectly suited. As a teacher, he would point out to children that if they chose to move into other social contexts then they would probably not find acceptance unless they conformed to the speech conventions of the new one, accent being generally the easiest way of determining class origin: but he would never attempt to ‘correct’ children’s speech provided they were making themselves clear to him; that is, provided they did not speak indistinctly.

Miss Crossthwaite was nevertheless convinced that she would still object when any child said ‘ain’t’ in her hearing.

Mr. Albert said that while in his childhood ‘ain’t’ was common, this usage had not shifted to ‘ent’ in London. This was an example of the continual progression of sound changes in speech, in the face of which any standardisation was quite wasted, even ludicrous. And the working-class always led in such speech changes, and the upper classes were farthest behind: the Queen, for instance, always lanches a ship, and uses lorst for lost.

Miss Crossthwaite said that the speech of the children of this school was bad and slovenly.

The bell went before a vote could be taken.

Breaking Bad in 1995.

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 16:59:56 +0000

Breaking Bad in 1995.

Photo

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:13:00 +0000

Photo

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:27:11 +0000

"The difference [between ‘commentary’ and ‘literature’] recalls that between labor and work in..."

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:48:23 +0000

“The difference [between ‘commentary’ and ‘literature’] recalls that between labor and work in Hannah Arendt. Labor, as she defines it, flows into goods whose twofold character is to be used up by consumption and to erase the discrete contribution of the individual laborer. Work, on the other hand, yields durable objects whose utility is not destroyed by the use of them, and which bear the lasting impress of the individual artisan. Presumably writing will always be more like work, in this sense, than a job as a short-order cook, but if, as Arendt argued, the tendency of the modern world is to establish “a waste economy in which things must be almost as quickly devoured and discarded as they appear in the world,” this process would seem to be overtaking prose along with everything else.”

- ‘Goodbye to the Graphosphere’, Benjamin Kunkel in The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books