Category Archives: Art

Is this me?

I’ve been working on a soundtrack I’m installing next week. It’s been hard work and quite intense. Today I came across this diary from someone who makes me feel like a complete lazybones and a real technical lightweight. I suppose … Continue reading

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Motion Induced Blindness

Wowser! Here’s a page with a great… well I don’t know if you’d call it an optical illusion or not. I suppose that’s what it is. Motion Induced Blindness

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Warning, this site contains images. I just wish I’d thought of it. XXXX GALUMPIA ADULT XXXX

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The Greenwich Time Signal has gone flat

Even as I write this BBC engineers are hard at work trying to find out what is wrong with the Greenwich Time Signal. The GTS is played in the seconds leading up to the top of the hour, ever hour … Continue reading

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Riddley Walker

I just finished re-reading my favourite book, Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban. I first read it at school, at about the same time that I read my other favourite novel, Peter Carey’s Bliss. Put those two books together and you’ve … Continue reading

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Cool or what?

Comic publisher Drawn & Quarterly are republishing a book by one of my favourite comic artists, Julie Doucet. Unfortunately their printer has thrown away some of the film of the book and the original artwork was sold, a while ago, … Continue reading

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This is Theatre

I’m doing a theatre soundtrack for a show in Stuttgart this summer. The artistic director of the festival, Marie Zimmermann, has written a brilliant little essay about theatre on the festival website. The closer I get to this show the … Continue reading

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Identifont – identify fonts and typefaces

Oh baby, am I a nerd or what? I love this site. It asks you a series of questions about what the letters in a font look like and then tries to identify it for you. There are questions like … Continue reading

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Printing printing Piezography

This is a such a great idea, I’m appalled that this is the first time I’ve ever read about it. You know how if you try a print a photo in black and white on your inket it always looks … Continue reading

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Not-so-secret Santas

Here’s a site that deserves some attention, if only to correct its Brummie bias. A collection of photos and reviews of spectacular Christmas decorations created by private individuals on their houses and in their gardens. Since the site carries the … Continue reading

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