No Excuses
August 27, 2004
Been a bit quiet on the posting front... spent Monday recovering from the weekend... Went to see Bourne Supremacy and Thunderbirds... Went to the all new Craven Cottage to see Fulham belittled by Middlesborough, finished a remix with Kev [more of that at porntsar.net next week], did a bit more starck stuff and posted a couple more images at digitalia. So not a completely slack week.
Also bought the new Prodigy album [they've had enough links here lately], which might take a couple more listens... Bit samey at first shout... The Two Culture Clash album, which is a lot better than I expected and there is a "making of" video over at the BBC... and the fantastic, Destroy Rock'n'Roll album by Mylo... and watched Lost In Translation [at last] and Mystic River. Both good but for very different reasons...
Anyway, it's Bon Voyage to Simon, who goes back to Cape Town on Sunday and good luck with the move to Trev and Viv, if it goes ahead this weekend... And I'l be back on Tuesday!
Oh, and apologies if you tried to access this site 24 hours ago, as it seemed to be down for reasons I have yet to find out.
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Conundrum
August 19, 2004
What the... A bit of mathematical shenanigans going on here!
Bum Bum Koala is a very daft but nicely designed little game...
Got my print on canvas back from the printers today and it looks pretty damn good. Just got to get the canvas stretched and possibly frame it now.
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Tom Waits Real Gone
August 18, 2004
Details of the new Tom Waits album, Real Gone have appeared on his labels website... along with the news that he will be touring the UK after the release, October, so I expect he will be here sometime in November or December. That's only 17 years since he was last here!!! In fact his son, Casey, performs on some of the tracks and he's 18... Maybe he was just being a good father?
Finally found out what Six Thousand Chairs is all about... And it's on when I'm away. natch!
Six Thousand Chairs is a free three day participatory event featuring over 30 international and locally based artists.
The event will be held over the August Bank Holiday weekend on Saturday 28 August from 12.00pm - 10.30pm, Sunday 29 August 12.00pm - 8.00pm and Monday 30 August from 12.00pm - 6.00pm.
Topically [not], I have just picked up a copy of Zembla, a new-ish [issue 5] literary magazine... and bloody good it is to. Thankfully it's only quarterly, actually that makes it quite an old publication doesn't it, so it's not another one in my monthly pile. At least not every month.
A quick "Get well Charlie" to Charlie Watts.
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Lovegods
August 17, 2004
Saw the wonderful loveGods last night... But they only got a half hour slot, which was nowhere near enough. That Deah is one helluva tall woman... and completely mad, seemingly! By far the best band I have seen live in years. There is supposedly a new album due by the end of the year or thereabouts... Which is good as I'll probably have worn the other one out by then.
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Couched In Typography
August 13, 2004
Whoah!!! If you have been watching You Are What You Eat and thought some of the sights on there were gross, read about this woman... So much the couch potato she actually took root on her sofa and became one with it! From the Palm Beach Post
Nice typography post over at City Of Sound... And these Harlequin Book Covers are fantastic, via Exclamation Mark.
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Arse About Face
August 11, 2004
The works in About Face reveal a wide range of approaches from 'straightforward' photography, photomontage, appropriation of found imagery and multiple exposures to complex computer manipulations and challenging our perceptions of beauty and truth. In an age of digital technology and media domination, miracle drugs, plastic surgery and genetic engineering, the artists ask can we still take the portrait at face value?
About Face
Photography and the Death of the Portrait
24 June - 5 September... didn't take me long to notice this was on then!
Are Y.O.B. smart kids from the streets made good or art students with D.I.Y punk svnegali attitude about to be mistaken as the voice of the British Movement? Nice idea, but the Streets comparisons don't bode well... Mike Skinner is as much a poet of British Suburbia as Pam Ayers was... Check out The Rock's renditions of some classic Pammy moments care of XFM!!! I expected something slightly funkier of Y.O.B. for some reason but I'll give 'em the time of day for now.
Bit of a kindred spirit in the way of the Fotombre photoblog.
I've been playing with the blinkx software for a couple of days now. You install it and it searches websites and if you allow it your e-mail and documents for keywords... I haven't given it a chance to realise it's potential yet, I hope... I assume it is supposed to be a kind of poor man's autonomy in as much as it needs to learn a little about your surfing habits etc and begin to "think" as you would. I'll reserve judgement for a week or so I think.
I've sent my first image from digitalia off to be printed on canvas. Don't know when to expect it back but looking forward to it. Will have to get the canvas stretched myself and the final thing framed, so I don't know how cheap it will end up.
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Size Matters!!!
August 10, 2004
ARCHOS introduces the ARCDisk, the world's smallest 20GB external portable hard drive. With its ultra-fast USB 2.0 interface and extremely small size (76 mm x 77 mm x 8.8 mm), the ARCDisk is the ultimate portable hard drive. Think smaller than the footprint of a 1.44 MB floppy disk. Weighing only 75 grams (2.7 ounces), it is equipped with the latest generation 1.8 inch hard drive. Usable without an external power supply (powered directly from the USB 2.0 port) it's the ideal solution for laptop PCs. At about 135.00 pounds.
Check it out and the AV340 Video Recorder, a snip at 400 pounds... Probably less if you shop around!
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Online Cold Turkey?
August 04, 2004
I don't know, you take a week off and have to work like a dog for a week when you get back to catch up with everything...
All blogs have been neglected, apart from some new links at porntsar.net... Have been re-working an old bassline for a new KSX track [a bit of holiday inspiration] in Reason and generally trying out some new chord sequences...
What with having to do real work, visiting ailing Grandmothers/newborn Nephews and working out how to get rid of wasps nests it hasn't been a very relaxing return home.
Not going to make it to Hayseed Dixie on Friday, but I notice that The LoveGods are also at the Borderline on the 16th... And we have have tickets for One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest [thanks to Rob... The cheques in the post...honest!]... There are many other things I've listed here fairly recently that I can't see us getting to either.
IN THREE WEEKS TIME is an exhibition spanning three weekends in August.
The invited artists have been asked to produce new works addressing
specific periods of time. This consideration of time is heightened
further by a set of criteria which limit the time-frame for production
available to the artists.
Using collage, digital projections and mixed media installations the
artists will produce work responding either to the week immediately
preceding the exhibition or to that week's events historically.
Inevitably, the time constraints on the artists and the pressure this
puts them under will lead to an urgency, rawness and immediacy reflected
in each of the three weekend shows.
It's on the weekends of 13-15/20-22/27-29 August and open Fridays 6.30 - 9.00, Saturdays + Sundays 11.00 - 5.00 at...
Clapham Art Gallery
Unit 02
40-48 Bromell's Road
London
SW4 0BG
Check out the City Of Memory project... and audio tags. Both via smartmobs.com
It seems that being a geek is now a legitimate excuse to avoid conscription in Finland... Internet Addiction is now up there with fallen arches!
And in Germany you can now have your passport photo taken with your tongue sticking out... of course, no other country is going to let you in after they see it but still.
Incidently. On our way back from Turkey I managed to accidently waltz through customs with Sam's passport. The guy checking them was so concerned that the lock on his gate was on the latch properly he just stamped it and waved me through. It wasn't until I was waiting for Sam to follow and idly flipped through it that I noticed he had mistaken me for a female blonde eight years my junior... Easy done. NOT!!! Still that airport [Dalaman] is mad.
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