His website, however, is an incredible exercise in outsider web design. If you can handle having your eyes subjected to epilepsy-inducing flickering from the sidebars, you can dig inside and find the steampunk-inspired goggles that we saw at Interzone on Friday. They seem to be well constructed, had a great heft to them and look [...]
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Since I bought a new lens in Japan, I’ve been thinking of the need for a new bag. The new lens is a bit massive and has finally forced me to outgrow my little Crumpler thing I’ve used since I started out on this crazy gig. One of the chaps at work has a nice [...]
Anyone have a clue what’s going on here? We noticed these statues out on a walk around the South Bank on Sunday. They’re all perched on buildings such that they’re on the skyline. I think we counted 6 or 7 of them on buildings both the north and south banks. It must have been an [...]
I had a bit of an epiphany just now. I had a document with tables and formatting and hyperlinks in Microsoft Word and I uploaded it to Google Documents and it looked fine! I exported it as a PDF and it still looked fine! I had anticipated it would be chewed up and replaced with [...]
The forthcoming album from Nine Inch Nails, Year Zero, is being promoted ahead of time by a fairly complex alternate reality game that describes a world in the near future wrecked by terrorist attacks and overbearing responses by the West in response. It talks of drugged water supplies, Orwellian surveillance, banned books and music and [...]
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.
