Entries from April 2008

links for 2008-04-30

April 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Virginia Heffernan - The Medium - Television - Internet Video - Media - Flickr - Photography - New York Times
bit cheap, bit lazy but still interesting. “when a prankster posted a Cartier-Bresson photo of a cyclist passing a spiral staircase, passing the photo off as his own, a mob of commenters shouted it down, crying [...]

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The Back Garden

April 25th, 2008 · No Comments

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The Garden, originally uploaded by meltingman.

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Sorting things

April 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

A lot of my time seems to be spent sorting things at the moment. If it’s not the ongoing pitch battle between tags and categories on the blog here (does really it matter if they don’t ever work? - could it be seen as endearing dysfunction?), it’s looking at my horribly [...]

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links for 2008-04-22

April 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

The Believer - Interview with David Simon
Brilliant interview of The Wire’s David Simon by NIck Hornby. The Wire as Greek tragedy rather than Shakespearean drama.
(tags: tv media interviews thewire)

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Spring-clean

April 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Papa’s got a brand new template.
It’s a bit messy at the moment though - I haven’t worked out how to shrink the space in the sidebars. Or, indeed, how to make it look nice, full stop.
And I’m not sure how to jump from categories to tags.
Bear with me.

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3 chairs

April 15th, 2008 · No Comments

I heart Mark E Smith.
I only have three chairs in the house: one for the wife, one for me, and one for a guest. No more. One guest at a time - that’s my philosophy. You don’t want your house turning into a hippy commune.
His “explosive new autobiography” is being extracted in the Guardian.

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links for 2008-04-15

April 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Mark Powell
(via 2point8)
(tags: gallery portfolio photography)

A Photo Editor - A Thought on the Future of Photography
and a great post suggesting that photographers embrace the digital properly (also via 2point8)
(tags: photography future digital)

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links for 2008-04-05

April 5th, 2008 · No Comments

DAVID HORVITZ
artist’s site, bursting with ideas (via crackunit)
(tags: art blog inspiration)

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links for 2008-04-02

April 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Interesting 2007
(tags: Interesting interesting2007 Inspiration)

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF LARRY CARLSON
via Crack Unit
(tags: animation flash)

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