February 2007 Archives
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Lex van Rossen shot the cover photo for my book on Gavin Friday.
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"But the most charismatic moment occurs when Friday stalks on in gold jewellery and inch-high brothel-creepers to intone Sonnet 40 like a diabolical lounge entertainer."
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"I would give most of it away, then I would have the biggest party for my friends and loved ones and then buy myself a Picasso."
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"They're a real family and it's a lovely thing to see and to be part of."
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One of the actors (the good one) reading sonnets in Nothing Like The Sun.
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One of the actors (the crap one) reading sonnets in Nothing Like The Sun.
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Soprano, Nothing Like The Sun.
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Tenor, Nothing Like The Sun.
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Composer, Nothing Like The Sun
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Composer, Nothing Like The Sun.
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Film director, Nothing Like The Sun
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Alan makes his own Dutch metro anagram map.
Lex is dead. I knew he was ill, but it's still a shock. Lex shot the cover photo of my book. I've always been disappointed with the way the print came out and I have been meaning to fix that in the pdf version I've been working on, on and off. To give that image the full page it deserves. I knew Lex from going to concerts in the 80s and 90s. He was always in my way (for the first three songs) and we'd laugh about it - he wasn't the tallest himself. He was a fantastic photographer, a real craftsman and one of my photography heroes. He must be taking pictures of angels now.
Here is some of his work. You may know it.
- Chris Isaak's Heart Shaped World
- Bono vs De Kuip
- More pictures
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Oscar winning Dutch Film director (Max Havelaar, De Aanslag) dies. I had dinner with him once (my aunt's an actress).
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The Irish Tom Waits?
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Edit exif info from within XP
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Search the page for 'ccvodb' for my - tongue in cheek - take on it.
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Create a Pecha Kucha presentation from your last twenty del.icio.us bookmarks.
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"A Pecha Kucha night is an event format in which presenters show a slideshow of 20 images, each of which is shown for 20 seconds ? giving a total presentation time of 6 minutes 40 seconds."
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(Notes of a presentation by Tom Coates I missed last year)
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"How to generate systems and models wherein large groups of people can publically create something together that's more than the sum of its parts."
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"An open-source physical computing platform based on a simple i/o board, and a development environment for writing Arduino software."
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The history of branding
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"The RSC is putting a 21st-century spin on Shakespeare's sonnets with interpretations by a host of left-field composers."
Andre Torrez writes:
"I remember when blogs had to be described to people and they would laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and now they have their own blogs."
Heh. Actually, a lot of them do, but they don't stick to it. Very few last longer than a couple of months, tops. I reckon I'll be doing this till it's desperately old fashioned. For some, it already is.
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Replacement for my AVG?
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"This is the crew account for the Greenpeace ship Esperanza."
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"Ultimately we are striving to be the missing link between Stockhausen, Zoltan Kodaly School for Girls and the Goombay Dance Band."
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David Hepworth's blog
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?It?s sometimes quite a dark place, and you don?t know your way around,? he says of the creative process. ?You have to go through all that grief to create something. "
Amy Winehouse on Dido: 'background music, the background to death'.
(from this month's The Word magazine - with thanks to mrHg)
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"Was The Scream snatched simply to divert police from another crime?"
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Supposedly will be announced on Feb 22
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"Dell has done something brilliant: it's launched an IdeaStorm site that enables users to make suggestions so that other people can "digg" them."
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"What we are witnessing is the Creolization of media."
Must find me some episodes of Baretta, loved the series as a kid (1975 - 1978).
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Dutch Tony Blair imitation from VARA comedy series 'Kopspijkers'. Beware of Dutch accent.
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Cute Japanese drummers animation
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A polaroid from the Isle of Wight Rock festival
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Tracey Emin (!) writes about 'one of the most famous couples in showbiz'.
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Leonard Cohen-y type stuff
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'powerful role model'
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"Sammy Davis Jr. used his camera to create one of the greatest unknown picture archives in show-business history."
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"After more than 150 movies spanning half a century, Tony Curtis, now 81 years old, recounts a life lived onscreen?and off."
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3fm studios are adjacent to our office building
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"The Last Outpost of Bohemia"
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There's a French-Canadian version of The Office? Wonder if my French is good enough to watch this.
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Christ, there is a French one too!
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Fantastic Parkour video
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The killer language
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Bouncing the pop-up flash on a camera
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Photography tutorials
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Difference between passion for employer vs passion for work
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echo/church/bowie/mbv influenced band
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Piss poor rendition of the song if you ask me. I blame Sting. I always blame Sting.
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Suprised I hadn't bookmarked this one before
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BWAH! 'There's just so much... sun in here.'
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"No other artist in rock history has fed off negative energy with quite the same relish - to paraphrase Philip Larkin, malevolence and spite are to the Fall what daffodils were to Wordsworth."
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Get rid of that 'tach man, I'm not sure emulating Freddy Mercury is what you had in mind.
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"The video uses the groundbreaking technique known as "Kuroko"."
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I'm in ur pipezzz
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Playing around with curves and channels to achieve better skin tones
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Fantastic actor. 72 is too young.
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Aaron's name dropped into Batman comic.
Nine minute (so it fits on youtube?) director's cut, starring Scarlet J.
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Fab picture of DJ Boy George
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Oisin Lunny's company
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?I love the paparazzi. They take pictures, and I just smile away. I?ve always liked attention. I didn?t get it very much growing up, and I always wanted to be, you know, noticed.?
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Lovely Guardian linkage to the big W
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"The Most Fingernail-Craving Fansite for NBC?s 30 ROCK" (Alec Baldwin is so great in this show)
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"You get dates with women who then very quickly move on to the next leading man."
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"Anthony: I own a gun because I'm a fuckin' American and a Marine. It's my God-given right."
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Oisin Lunny (Marxman?)
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"Even during the Depression, popcorn remained "one of the few luxuries down-and-out families could afford.""
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"It might be several months before you find duplicate content, Sentinel was designed with speed in mind."
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Access Google Calendar, Basecamp, Blogger, MT, etc via IM
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I'd like to have a photoblog again and stick to a theme this time.
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Resurrected my photoblog. Concentrating on concert photography.
Scenes from the USA version of The Office. Not to be missed.
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Crikey.
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"I was less mature than any other 19-year-old I've ever known. Poor Frank, saddled with such a child. I would be falling asleep at the table at Las Vegas, trying to talk to people about their cats. He was very patient with me."
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Heh. Which explains why Randy Newman has always been more popular over here than over there.
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"Sometimes the sky itself is the best show in town"
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"Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui".
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"The Canadian Muslims were just as angry with me as their counterparts in Holland, but they refrained from shouting, from insulting and from disrupting the session."
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Hey look, we're on the BBC news site
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Will someone build the Google Maps / Wikipedia Rock history mash up? Yummy user-generated content. Sorry... 'authentic media'.
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"The rapid mutation of amateur photography in the digital age 08.02 ? 20.05.2007"
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Audio of rare acetate made available online (via Moloch)
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This recap by Jacob had me laughing out loud. Guffawing. On my own. And you know how creepy that is.
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Get it from #eztv or mininova if you haven't seen it.
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Joss Whedon uses our site to announce he's off the Wonder Woman film.
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"Looking for that perfect drink recipe?" (via Twitter)
"I wanted to be something special, most of all," she says, before singing You Light Up My Life. (shamelessly pilfered from MeFi)
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"Foul-mouthed, noisy, hairy, and damn well old enough to know better, Grinderman are Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos."
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English photographer
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Weirdest mention of my name. Ever.
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"To celebrate the upcoming release of Eric Wight's first graphic novel "My Dead Girlfriend", we've come up with a great competition for you. All you have to do is tell us your most mortifying Valentine's Day story."
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Lovely quiet cover of Bowie's Heroes
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The Bowie cover linked earlier reminded me of Australian crooner Jimmy Little
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Why bother, they won't be able to top the miniseries.
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"Hourly Rate = ((Annual Rate / 52 ) / amount of hours you wish to work in a week)"
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Dutch civil journalism site
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"Who are you hanging out with?"
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TWOP-frum vs tvshow' My Name is Earl' meta references and shout-outs play. Fantastic.
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"The Netherlands is generally viewed by the outside world as being a very radical, free-thinking society, yet outside of Amsterdam it really isn't."