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Today’s Links (09/12/08)

Jack Mottram — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:39:54 +0000

Another country: Artist Charles Avery discusses the Island - The Scotsman
VUKZID06 - Goodiepal - collected works - V/Vm Test Records
“Here for the first time in an easy to download set of zip files are a series of collected Goodiepal works which include at Goodiepal’s request ‘Narc Beacon’ and his ‘Mort Aux Vaches” releases. There are also a selection of rare Goodiepal tracks along with some of his selected advertisments.”
Posterous: Minimalist Blogging - ReadWriteWeb
Posterous is an interesting weblogging app that you post to via email, and which can then send your posts on to Flickr, Twitter, your weblog, &c.. Cool, if not terribly secure.
Why I Chose Posterous: a Quick Review - Joel’s posterous
Evolution of the visual system is key to abstract art
Aeeeris Tablet Conversion Kit
A custom faceplate for the Eee 70x that turns it into a nice-looking mini-tablet.
MediaConsumer 0.1 - David Raynes
The Pixel Palace
"Tyneside Cinema, the oldest surviving newsreel cinema in the country and one of the UK's leading cultural venues, is exploring cinema's potential in the new digital world, using the latest digital projectors, high-speed networks, games consoles and mobile devices to help us uncover ways in which we can make cinemas (and perhaps other arts and cultural spaces) as relevant in the 21st century as they were in the 20th."
Sucked Into The Tunnels Beneath Las Vegas : NPR

Today’s Links (06/12/08)

Jack Mottram — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:16:50 +0000

The Art of the Title Sequence
Would current technology allow someone to make an audio recording of their life? | Ask Metafilter
Answer: yes, but processing the data would be very hard/expensive.
Dept. of Technology: Remember This?: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
"Gordon Bell… by means of custom programs and gadgets, now collects the daily minutiae of his life so emphatically that he owns the most extensive and unwieldy personal archive of its kind in the world."
The Grid System
35 Days Against DRM — Day 7: Prince: Friends without benefits. | DefectiveByDesign.org
This is why I didn't buy anything from the NPGMC. That and all the songs released were bibble.
Dinosaur Gardens » BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Fourth Dimension
Sucked Into The Tunnels Beneath Las Vegas : NPR

Today’s Links (23/11/08)

Jack Mottram — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:00:49 +0000

The link to the ‘BNP proximity search’ has been removed after a series of threatening emails. It may or may not be reinstated pending legal advice.

~~BNP member proximity search~~
Enter your Post Code to see if there are any fascists in the vicinity.
Why Were Still Looking At You (from The Herald )
Alternate headline: Why do the Herlad keep crediting me with James Mottram's work, and he with mine?
Publishing Google docs to your blog
On the Death and 441-Year Life of the Pixel
russell davies: speculative modeling
Modifying Hornby model buildings to look like they might in 2050. I can't wait to see what people come up with (I'm too cack-handed to participate, sadly).
Jonestown 30 Years Later
Run Mac OS X on an Eee PC - Wired How-To Wiki
I'm pretty happy with Ubuntu Eee, really, but this remains very tempting.
Aquarium Drunkard: MP3 Blog, Music Blog » Bob Dylan/Johnny Cash :: 1969 Sessions
Europa Film Treasures

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Positive Piracy Panel

Jack Mottram — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:37:24 +0000

I’m taking part in a panel discussion on Positive Piracy at the mighty EIFF next week. We’ll be talking about the way cinephiles are increasingly turning to the web to get their fix of rare and cult cinema, the impact of digital distribution on future film-making, how Bittorrent is way cool, and stuff like that.

The other panelists are Alex Orr, whose bonkers-sounding horror flick Blood Car is screening at the Festival, Mike Gubbins of Screen International, Mark Adams from the ICA and Eddy Leviten from the slightly scary Federation Against Copyright Theft, who should ensure that the discussion doesn’t end up being a big file-sharing love-in. So will I, in fact—despite the two terabytes of media obtained by questionable means currently littering my hard drives, I’m pretty ambivalent about, you know, nicking things people have worked hard to make.

If you’d like to come along, it’s at 6pm on Wednesday 25th June at the Traverse and costs a measly fiver.

In other EIFF news, vote for Hannah in The Herald Fashion Awards! Should she win, I will be demanding a credit for spending countless hours waiting for her outside the changing rooms of fashionable boutiques.