I just filed a review of Inspirations, an exhibition at ArtDeCaf, a café in Glasgow, and then did a quick Google to see if it has been reviewed elsewhere. It hasn’t, but the coverage the show received in advance of its opening is interesting.
Pieces in the Times and the Sunday Herald both focus on artist Shahin Memishi. Seeking asylum in Glasgow, having been forced to flee his native Kosovo, Memishi (an art teacher) had something of a revelation on seeing work by the so-called New Glasgow Boys for the first time, and this show matches his portraits of the artists he admires with examples of their work.
I’m absolutely not having a go at the writers of these pieces. The curatorial conceit of showing a relatively unknown artist alongside the old guard who inspired him is...
Kid Drawings Made Realistic - The Monster Engine (GALLERY)
Yeondoo Jung - Wonderland
Children’s drawings photographed in the real world.
Macworld | Create good queries in Spotlight
See especially the keyword search feature.
app4mac - RapidoWrite
I already use TextExpander (a lot), but this looks worth a try.
tseetseetsu.org
Graeme Plunkett’s weblog - he’s showing an ace (if possibly offensive to animal-lickers) piece at the Dundee degree show, involving a bird, some sensors, custom software and recorded birdsong.
Google Doctype - Google Code
"Google Doctype is an open encyclopedia and reference library. Written by web developers, for web developers. It includes articles on web security, JavaScript DOM manipulation, CSS tips and tricks, and more."
Lifehacker...
Heresy Corner: Blasphemy: the last rites
"Few people seem to have noticed, but the law of blasphemy was repealed yesterday…"
Jonathan Glancey on the influence 50s comicstrip Dan Dare has had on modern architecture
Instant Rimshot
"Mark As Unread" Doesn’t Work For Me Anymore | Ask Metafilter
Email tips.
Life Without Buildings: Art From Disaster: an architecture blog
"…New Orleans homes still bear the spray-paint markings used by rescue workers… some residents have installed a metal sculpture permanently memorializing these new urban hieroglyphics."
tms [fernLightning]
"Allows basic cvs style operations on Time Machine volumes." Great for quickly checking what Time Machine has been up to.
Goodreads | get book recommendations...
no2self.net » Blog Archive » compact family home
Rob compares two compact home solutions that come complete with interior fixtures fittings.
Ballardian: the World of J.G. Ballard » The Car that Ate Bournville
ART TORRENTS
YouTube - WAYS OF SEEING (first episode) 1/4
All four parts of John Berger’s series are up on YouTube.
Román Cortés » Homer CSS
Unbelievable.
Verbarius
"Verbarius is the first clock in the world that tells time the way people do." And I really, really want one. (And I’d probably set it to German or French, like a big ponce.)
Tweet Book
More fiction on Twitter, this time collaborative. Doesn’t seem to be going very well.
twittories » home
Collaborative fiction written through Twitter. Not bad....
Epson R-D1: Sensor cleaning
I need to do this - my pinhole bodycap has revealed quite a bit of dust on the sensor.
Through the Viewfinder: A TutorialI assume this would be next to impossible with a rangefinder? I might try to cobble someting together involving an old twin lens reflex, a couple of close-up filters on my 50mm and a precisely-measured ‘smokestack contraption’. Or just take pinhole through-the-viewfinder photos for extra silliness.
Fire Eagle : Gallery - Getting Started
There are now some Fire Eagle apps listed, a couple of which I’d not seen before. If anyone wants an invite, I have 4 going spare (it’s a potentially very useful service that lets you tell the web where you are).
cityofsound: Monocle: design notes
Fascinating look at the design of...
BBC - Radio 4 - Arts and Drama - Rise of the Footnote
Nice little doc on the footnote.
Ask Mr. Biggs! Recycling real talk radio phone calls since 2006. » Maintenance Mode
Tributes as artist Angus Fairhurst is found dead, aged 41 | Art & Architecture | guardian.co.uk Arts
Very sad.
Exclusive: Hands-on video with the 3G iPhone - Crave at CNET.co.uk
Find Your Friends « Flickr Blog
Very slick. (Weird how many people I know have opened Flickr accounts without ever uploading photos.)
Microformats | weblog | This Fortnight in Microformats - March 17th–30th
These little summaries are great. (I’m interested in microformats and have implemented the relevant ones on my sites, but most of the stuff on the discussion lists/wiki sort of whooshes over my head.)
BBC - White...
ZiPhone’s Blog
Another iPhone unlocker thing.
site:thingsmagazine.net "a weblog" - Google SearchThings is a reliable source of good sites, so I sometimes do this search to catch up on their recently recommended weblogs.
Ten Radical Moments In 20th Century Art
TapeOp.com“The creative music recording magazine”
The Medical Messiahs
"The 1966 edition of this book described the development of patent medicines in America from the enactment in 1906 of the Pure Food and Drugs Act through the mid-1960s."...
Newest Eee PC Has Multi-Touch Trackpad - Yahoo! News
I wish they’d gone with either GPS and inbuilt Bluetooth instead.
Brando Eee PC Crystal Case
Transparent skin for the Eee.
Navizon Enables Fire Eagle Location Updates
Dunno whether to install Navizon or wait for the official client.
Dial2Do - Home
Phone up Dial2Do and it’ll email you a reminder, send someone an email, update Twitter or read out an RSS feed. Sounds fab, but it’s in private beta, so I’ve no idea whether it actually works yet.
macosxhints.com - Force ‘new window’ links to open in new tabs in Safari
Dropbox - Home - Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy.
Looks lovely. No Linux version as far as I can tell, though I could always access stuff from the Eee PC via the web interface
Where...
I like Doris Lessing, Nobel Laureate for fiction.Here is a woman who makes the point that I have made in the past that politics and government and anything that impacts on the punter in the street, whether it be downtown Scunthorpe in England, Auchtermuchty in Scotland or New York in the US of A, should be left to artists and creatives.Doris, in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País, has said that the attacks of September 11, 2001, weren't as terrible as the American people think.Although two buildings collapsed, and nearly 3,000 people were killed, she points out that over 3,700 died and many thousands of people were injured in more than 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland.Violence supported by money from the United States: [Colcam]Doris says Americans are a very naive...
As a dedicated hater of television commercials, it’s a wonder at all that I ever caught the one for Sony’s high-definition Bravia TV, which featured a block of flats in Glasgow and lots of brightly coloured paint exploding all over the place.When I did see it I presumed the whole thing was computer generated, rather clever and quite fun.Now the ad has won best commercial at the British Television Advertising Awards, and it turns out that the paint, 70,000 litres of the stuff, was real, and took sixty people five days to clean up!You can SEE THE COMMERCIAL HERE and, if you’re as sad as me, watch it NINE times in a row!See all recent...
Well, ummm, no. Actually it appears to be a giant phallus!See all recent...
A tribute to the life and times of Scotland's Sunday Herald cartoonist Harry Horse, and his wife Mandy, who died last week at Papil on Burra in the Shetland Isles on Wednesday.Mandy had multiple sclerosis, and the supposition is that Harry assisted her suicide then killed himself.The Factory.The factory never closesNever regulates itself.According to supply and demand.It just produces more and more.The machines in the factoryAre well maintained and efficient.An automatic feeder ensures it neverRuns outOf the raw materials vital for new production.And when the product is readyA new production line will begin.Sometimes we wonder about the factory.Why does it always produce the same stuff?Can't it see that we have enough?But the factory cannot answer such questions.After all it is only a...
What the hell is SimpleViewer - What's wrong with...
