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Today’s Links (15/04/08)

Jack Mottram — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:38:49 +0000

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 Tutorial
I 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 Monocle’s site.
Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?
Piece profiling Jan Chipchase of Future Perfect fame.
Where have all the cheap, simple, low-cost, long-battery-life mobile computers gone? « gilest
It seems to me that the ‘long-battery-life’ bit is the main problem. Why is battery technology so shit? (Or is it that screens, chips, etc. are too power hungry?)
Sunday Herald: Around The World In 80 DVDs
Nice long-running world cinema feature by Alan Morrison. Shame the website is lagging behind the newspaper.
The Art World Is Often Accused Of Being Aloof And Too Out Of Touch For The Public To Engage With The Glasgow International Festival Of Contemporary Visual Arts Aims To Change That But It Wont Be Easy (from Sunday Herald)
Barry Didcock’s intro to the Gi. Quite a headline, that!
Glasgow international - A. Vermin
Cracking show in the basement of the State Bar on Holland Street.
Luke Fowler: Winner of the First Jarman Award for Artist Film-Makers
Congrats Luke!
six twenty nine on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
A nice, very Flickr-ish example of the ‘long photo’ idea the site is using to justify the limitations on video uploads. Bonus: it’s a sunset, not a cat!
Voigtlander 15mm f4.5 Super Wide Heliar
My next lens…

We Tell Stories

Jack Mottram — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:07:22 +0000

The first installment of Penguin’s We Tell Stories series launched yesterday. It’s a pacy short story by Charles Cumming that unfolds through a Google Maps interface:

As well as being six stories by six Penguin authors, We Tell Stories is an ARG, designed by Six To Start, set to be launched once the six interactive fictions have all been published over the coming weeks. There are, though, already some little ARGish clues peppered through the map text of the first story: the addresses of container companies, prominent mentions of easily-visited places (various rooms in the Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh for example), and a ‘phone number: 020 8133 8141.

I rang, and heard this:

Hello, Alice?

I’ve made a terrible mistake. I need your help.

I have a story to tell you, but it will only make sense in the right place.

If you stand face to face with the statue of John Betjeman in St. Pancras station, ring this number: 020 7193 3154.

Then I’ll be able to explain more.

As luck would have it, I’ll be in St. Pancras Station tomorrow morning…

Today’s Links (15/03/08)

Jack Mottram — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:45:12 +0000

Flickr + Del.icio.us + Weblog + Dad = Book - Submit Response
Backtagging posts on my weblog, I found this old story, which made me smile!
I Own A Flat Now on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Bookmarked so I can tell how long I’ve lived here.
ExpanDrive 1.03
No more .DS_Store files littered everywhere, standardised Command key combinations.
kottke.org is ten years old today (kottke.org)
I think I found kottke.org via plasticbag.org, which I’m fairly sure was the first weblog I read. (I’m a n00b, the first post here was made on 10/10/01)
po-ru.com: BBC iPlayer fix hacked again!
Cat and mouse. I wonder if the Beeb will just give up.
I CAN HAZ dot COM
Not unamusing URL-shortening service.
BT Business Broadband - Terms and conditions - Fair Use Policy
Incredibly vague, and there isn’t one for home users that I can see. I assumed throttling Bittorrent to 10kbps up/30Kbps down during the day would be fine. Wrong
SubEthaEdit
The latest version has very slick collaboration features (which I don’t need, but I’ve always like SEE as an editor).
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Damaged Recap - TV.com
This episode of L&O:SVU is defo the ickiest, which is saying something.
Light text on dark background vs. readability | 456 Berea Street
A lengthy discussion. (I absolutely cannot read light on dark sites without my eyes burning.)
Twitter Friends Network Browser
Snazzy.
Ten web memes that failed « gilest
Tee hee!

Multimapping Weblogs

Jack Mottram — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:20:39 +0000

Richard Rutter of Clagnut has added a weblogs category to Multimap, so as well as using the site to find local shops, restaurants and the like you can now find local weblogs too.

I love the idea of giving websites a physical location of sorts, and this goes further than services like GeoURL (which is broken at the moment) by tying in weblogs with nearby resources.

Click here to view Submit Response at Multimap, and you can follow Richard’s instructions to add your own frequently updated personal homepage to the system.

Remember The Drift Table?

Jack Mottram — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:48:33 +0000

Remember the Drift Table? Way back in December, I found out that I was getting the chance to play with a prototype coffee table stuffed full of aerial photographs of England & Wales (but not Scotland) for viewing through a small viewport, with the visible landscape changing according to the distribution and weight of objects on the table’s surface.

It looks like this:

Cool, huh?

Sadly, before I got my mitts on the thing, one of its hard drives failed.

Happily, it’s now all better, and coming round my house tomorrow afternoon!

For those interested in reading about a man staring gleefully at a table for six weeks, The Drift Table Weblog will return to life tomorrow. Its main purpose is to help me easily document my time with the table for the RCA and Equator Project people behind the project, but I’ll also do my best to post more broadly, about matters relating (tangentially, I imagine) to the table.

The Drift Table Weblog

Jack Mottram — Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:51:12 +0000

Rather than bore everyone who reads Submit Response with constant cooing over the Drift Table, I set up a temporary weblog called - rather wittily I think - The Drift Table Weblog.

See you there?

The Drift Table Drift

Jack Mottram — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 14:27:15 +0000

So, I’m getting my mitts on the Drift Table this Friday.

In an idle moment last week, I posted about it at MetaFilter. The link was picked up on by Gizmodo, and is now turning up here and there.

Were I in a fanciful mood, I might suggest that watching the link drift slowly from site to site has been a foretaste of the inevitable hours I will spend staring into the Drift Table’s viewport over the coming weeks. This post is certainly a foretaste of the inevitable slew of entries on the topic over the coming weeks.