Entries from June 2008

Balloon Race

June 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

This is all rather exciting. Dashing across the internet in a bobbing sort of way.
If you’ve come across this site following your balloon, hello!
You could give mine a boost while your here.

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you made me realise

June 24th, 2008 · No Comments

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you made me realise, originally uploaded by meltingman.

Truly outstanding. On sunday night, the mid-section of You Made Me Realise was apparently timed at 18 minutes of pure noise. Last night we thought it was [...]

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Phonographantasmascope

June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Of the many fabulous speakers at Interesting2008, Jim Le Fevre probably drew the loudest oooohs from the audience for the sheer loveliness of his turntable animation, inspired by nineteenth century zoetropes.

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Please Sign In

June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Please Sign In, originally uploaded by meltingman.
I just want to say, what an invigorating, stimulating, fun and utterly, utterly interesting day I had at Interesting2008. Thank you, Russell.

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Listening to nothing

June 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Enjoying Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago. Well, I think I am, but it has the curious quality of not existing except for when it’s actually being played. If I try to think of it at other times, there’s nothing there, nothing to recall - save for the that was Wisconsin, that was yesterday refrain [...]

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Holidays

June 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Not wanting to fly to much this year we thought we’d go to Spain (Valencia to be precise) by train.
Stage 1: Getting the Eurostar to Paris. Via the Business Premier Lounge at St Pancras (cheers Lucy!), the entering of which was not unlike how I imagine the ascent to heaven to be, complete with [...]

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Despite myself

June 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Orange’s balloonacy, as announced by Iain looks really good. This is the first time that an advertising viral has whetted the appetite enough for me to sign up, add the widget and get involved. I think this means that once the race starts in three weeks, orange balloons will float across the blog, and that’s [...]

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