Archive for October, 2006

Carsten Höller at the Tate Modern

16Oct06

One of the most fun bits about the Carsten Höller installation at the Tate is watching the people. And hearing them. The screams of people taken unawares by what they thought was a gentle slide echo through the tunnels and rarely fail to raise a smile around the tunnels’ ends.

People asking to use your Flickr photos

14Oct06

If you have a number of photos on Flickr you can quite frequently get people asking to use them in things. One particularly common example is NowPublic, a user-contribution news site. When they want a photo to cover a story, they send you a mail in Flickr to ask permission to use it. They have [...]

Illness, MSN and Giraffes

13Oct06

A post in which I say things I usually reserve for Livejournal. I’ve been fairly poorly recently. Nothing disastrous, but niggly. I’ve had a rotten cold since last week and it found the time to migrate into some throat-swelling energy-sapping bastard virus that took me out of work the last two days. Sometimes I wonder [...]