March 2007 Archives
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Dutch digg-clone. (Thanks to Tonie for Twittering *everything*.)
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"A music video I took and cut together to fit the Moog Cookbook Remix of Kelly Watch The Stars by Air. The original video is from a 70s disco version of Apache (By the Tommy Seebach band)"
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(Apparently he doesn't normally swear like that.)
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The full interview
Here's one for the weekend. Enjoy.
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feed your blog to twitter
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Beste tested phones
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... easy vinyl to computer
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Collection of Twitter related tools
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Dutch provider XS4ALL's YouTube clone
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"The terror of death is as real in his art as in a sixteenth century metaphysical poem."
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Hopefully next time the site will be faster
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'Where are they now'
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Yay, Meg!
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"You have to be opinionated and passionate about what you write, or your enthusiasm will wane." No shit. (Eachman.com has been blogging since 1999. No breaks, no dramatic exits and come backs, no surrender.)
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My Dutch review of the show I saw in Dublin on 25/3.
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People call Twitter moblogging?
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People don't like Twitter? People who don't know people?
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"Xu Zhen is arguably the Chinese Damien Hirst. In June 2006 he organised a warehouse show of 30 young artists in Shanghai, of which the centrepiece was a video of a panda being masturbated for artificial insemination."
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Early review of Maria's new album 'Late December'
Cathal Coughlan is a modern Irish storyteller. His latest song cycle Flannery's Mounted Head, commissioned by Cork 2005 European City of Culture and released as the album 'Foburg', relates the tale of Flannery. Lost in a former mental institution now 21st century shopping mall, Flannery hooks up with the criminal cousin Gregory with disastrous results.
Blending (think industrial steel knife blender) modern architecture, Pat McCabe-style mobster violence and the bile of a mindset shaped by 80s Thatcherite Britain, the songs lash out at Celtic Tiger Ireland, consumerism, the lack of purpose and spirituality. Heavy, wordy, cerebral songs that wouldn't go down half as well if, like McCabe's best work, they weren't very funny as well.
To a packed out Sugar Club, Cathal first performed a short but relentless solo set, accompanying himself on the piano. Looking lean and mean, he spat out the words to old favourites like A Pack of Lies, The Loyaliser and a You Won't Get Me Home. After a short intermission he returned with the full band to play Foburg in its entirety, to a backdrop of bleak imagery of concrete monstrosities and urban decay.
Part theatre, part music hall, part experimental, part noise rock a la Fatima Mansions, this was Cathal Coughlan unleashed. More Brel than Walker, he slipped from one character to the other (the feckless Flannery, mad 'Cousin' Gregory, the calculating girlfriend). It was funny, it was scary, it was perfect and completely deserved the thunderous applause it got.
Coming back, punk rock style, for an encore of audience favourite Rat Poison Rendezvous, Cathal improvises the hell out the song, declaring Jeremy Clarkson dead, deceased and gone to hell. Which was met by a roar of approval from the by now well lubricated audience. What to think of that?
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What would bacon do?
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German band Tarwater cover Sweet Home Under White Clouds
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"Satellite? is an all in one photo gallery website that takes advantage of Yahoo Flickr's image hosting and management tools. You can upload and manage your images using Flickr and host your portfolio on your own server via Satellite?."
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"This means every Dutch person is an actor. The person who checked my train ticket, the waiter who served my lunch, even the man who rescued me from the lift, all of them were actors. In fact there is no such thing as a Dutch person."
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Little Knut, the polar bear, meets the general public
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Where we had dinner last week
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Content makes comeback
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Call me crazy, but I'm loving this cover of the Zombies song by idol competitor Blake Lewis. Who's your daddy... Like the way he moves too.
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So yeah I've been away and in that time Twitter went mega and even my colleagues have heard of it now.
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Stupid name
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How to display agenda in Gmail
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"More than just a to-do list manager"
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Cafe en Seine, Fitzers, John M Keating, Slatterys, Yamamori, etc.
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Wifi locator BeNeLux. That Dauphine restaurant I linked yesterday has free wifi. Perfect for Sunday lunches.
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WIFI hotspots in Amsterdam
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Dutch government issues list of 'problem areas' in cities. Seems I'm doomed.
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Magnum's photographers blogging
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"You're kidding...bloody hell. I'm really proud of this record...the highest what...really...that's unbelievable..."
Taken near the start of our road trip which took us from Nottingham to Newcastle to the Lake District, Manchester, Leeds and Nottingham via Sheffield. It was freezing cold up there near the Angel, but what a lovely and relaxing break it turned out to be.
I used a Photoshop action on this picture to simulate lith printing, a process involving special developer and paper, much employed by Anton Corbijn. Check out this with/without example.
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Jon Cockle explains his Open Source Food site
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"All he needs are two Hasselblad cameras (a 501CM and a 503CW) and three lenses (60, 80 and 120 mm). His philosophy is very simple: no tripod and no studio, just available light and a hand-held camera."
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"British men can be identified by their cropped hair, which they shave to obscure their genetically endemic premature hair loss. They imagine it gives them a street-hard look. Most Americans think they look like gay Marines with deformed ears."
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Bravo buys TWOP
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Fruits de mer on the menu. Walking distance from home. Must try soon.
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French-style, fruits de mer buffet
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'Modern' brasserie, they do proper lunches (none of that bread and butter shite)
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Dinner looks good, but lunch menu is woeful
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Dutch finally discover PayPal this year. *rolls eyes*
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'Grids are good' presentation
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Berlin polar bear's blog
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"Twitter brings back the "type words in one box and press submit" thing that made Blogger so popular back in the day."
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Food 2.0. Possibly the best recipe site evah.
Knut's a young Polar Bear in Berlin's zoo. He was born a twin in December 2006, but his brother died 4 days old. Knut is being mothered by a zookeeper.
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A collection of 100 short humorous pieces from the UK blogosphere.
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Pity I have been in anti-grumpy-old-men mode for a while now or I might have enjoyed his rant.
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podcast of said rant
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This action simulates a lith print with selenium toner from a black and white image (in RGB mode).
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"Rock ?n? roll was mine to defend. It strengthened my hand and gave me a sense of tribe as I boarded a bus from South Jersey to freedom in 1967."
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Old NYT review of my new favourite television series
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Database of the music used in the television series
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Finding myself prostrate at Unreliable Witness's throne.
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Entry on Dutch shock logs (deleted from Wikipedia)
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"They reflect the solidly ingrained Dutch tradition known as 'kankeren' (litterally 'cancering'). Kankeren' is a heightened form of complaining, can be very violent in its (verbal) manifestation, but is in no way intended to address, even less to redress,
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French music blog
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... is the new ...
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(Disclaimer: I can't stand this actor.) James Cromwell: "'I was very surprised that the overwhelming majority of the people on the set ? how can I put this ? loathed Diana,? he says, stretching out the word 'loathed? luxuriously."
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Smart cookie. What's the most important thing to remember if you want to make it? "Manners. You know, saying your pleases and your thank yous."
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"Housed in a landmark industrial building on the south bank of the River Tyne in Gateshead, BALTIC is the biggest gallery of its kind in the world"
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"Last year, the company went so far as to trademark ?technosexual,? anticipating it could become a buzzword for marketing to millennials, the roughly 80 million Americans born from 1982 to 1995."
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"Illustration Friday is a weekly illustration challenge. A topic is posted every Friday and then participants have all week to come up with their own interpretation."
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UK bloggers, you've got 7 days
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Good looking MySpace clone
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"The beauty industry has been in a slump for several years, facing a decline that is in part the result of young consumers spending more money on electronics than on fashion and fragrances."
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Remember playing this (full screen) back in 1996 or 97. I was amazed at its graphics back then.
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Mike Figgis auditions story tellers through MySpace
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(insert glass breaking scene here)
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"A Legblog, as I?m sure you?ll agree, has the potential to be as fearsome and distasteful as the now almost ubiquitous Sexblog - minus the moist and salacious bits, but with even more breathless huffing and puffing"
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Nothing quite like cod and spuds
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Annie Leibovitz shoots the Sopranos
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Official site for the upcoming Tim Minear series "Drive" starring lots of familiar faces
Just when we we were getting very bored with Stratford-upon-Avon (at 11am on our second day) we came across this man whose name we may never find out. He built a miniature version of Stratford junction as it would have looked a long time ago and has opened his house to show it. I was a little startled when he suddenly appeared amidst the trains and started telling us all about his work there and upstairs, where he was working on a even smaller scale version. While Hg diverted his attention, I snapped a few shots of him and his pride and joy.
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Anthony Bourdain blogs about Food Network cooks. I wish I knew who they were.
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Haven't been to Meltdown in 6 years. Maybe this one?
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Bryan Ferry modelling M&S
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Full show (windows media) streamed by 3FM
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Pretty. I like square and triangular watches.
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One of the many great shows canned before its time (i.e. never given a chance)
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Perhaps a little too classy for American Idol?
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Back to basic blogging
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The Firefly/Medium/24/BSG actor just joined Whedonesque. *fans self*
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Have tons of these
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How tiresome, this throwback to 80s insular xenophobic style music journalism
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Entertainment blog
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I'M ON UR SITEZ, STEALING UR CONTENTZ.
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Kevin Bacon starts... the Six Degrees charity
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"While his words are often inaudible, as a piece of performance theatre it is astonishing. He swerves between Caliban and Puck and several characters in between so compellingly..."
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"I think it's much nicer to be in love, and throw yourself into it, and want to lie in the road for that person."
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Lake District, staying there March 14
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New official website
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'National Pig day'
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"The social interaction of sharing food, that's what eating to me is about," she said. "I really missed it, and that restriction limited my interactions with other people."
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Anyone who thinks British food is disgusting hasn't been there in the last 25 years if you ask me.