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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

This Month’s MetaFilter Posts

Jack Mottram — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:00:24 +0000

This month I’ve made quite a few posts at MetaFilter, an American website where thousands of people gather to share links to cool websites and shout at each other. Here they are:

The Tone Generation

The Tone Generation is a radio series by Ian Helliwell ‘looking at different themes or composers in the era of analogue tape and early synthesizer technology’. The original globe-trotting series: Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, USA, Canada, Rest of World. Bonus programmes: Expo 58, The RCA Synthesizer. All links are to MP3 files, except the first one. Alternatively, you can slurp down the lot in one go by subscribing to the podcast feed.

Theatre of the New Ear

Theatre of the New Ear. Two radio plays: one by Charlie Kaufman, the other by the Coen Brothers, recorded live and starring Steve Buscemi, John Goodman, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep.

The Coen Brothers’ Sawbones can be downloaded from the site linked above, or streamed along with Kaufman’s Hope Leaves the Theatre here. Via Subtraction.

L’Officiel de la Couture et de la Mode

A complete archive of French magazine L’Officiel de la Mode, from 1921 to 2008. It’s a treasure trove for fans of fashion, photography, advertising and design.

Architecture, Sampled And Remixed

Dionisio GonzÃÂ¡lez makes photographs of imaginary favelas, Filip Dujardin makes photographs of imaginary buildings.

The Demarco Digital Archive

The Demarco Digital Archive holds 10,000 images and documents gathered by Richard Demarco, gallerist, Beuys collaborator, founder of the Traverse theatre and a key figure on the Scottish arts scene since the ’60s.

The Lost Synthesizer Classics of Ursula Bogner

It seems almost incredible that Ursula Bogner’s musical talents should have remained undiscovered until now.

Today’s Links (22/10/08)

Jack Mottram — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:57:52 +0000

Art review: Richard Forster | Ruth Claxton - Scotland on Sunday
Choosy - A smarter default browser for Mac OS X
‘Forget the Ã¢â¬Ëdefault browserÃ¢â¬â¢, Choosy lets you open links in the browser you want. Just set up a few simple options and Choosy will do the right thing, whether that’s opening a browser or letting you pick from some or all of the browsers on your system.’ Great little utility.
The Snow Queen
The Arches Christmas play, written by Megan, directed by Al (and I think Guy is doing the sound design too).
Easy Lifestreaming with SimplePie
Atheist Campaign
Campaign to put nice adverts for atheism on London buses, reading ‘There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.’. (They raised ten times their original fundraising target on the first day!)
dotmac - Google Code
A version of .Mac you host yourself - data sync, iDisk, Backup all work apparently. Doesn’t look too fiddly to install on a machine running Linux (you have to patch Apache, install a bunch of Perl modules) but there’s no easy way of installing. If they get that sorted, this could be really popular.
Riddley Walker Annotations
Savoy Records: Heroes
I did not know that PJ Proby recorded a rendition of The Waste Land backed with a VarÃÂ¨se composition. Now that I do, I must own it!
Lexical Analysis of 2008 US Presidential and Vice-Presidiential Debates - Who’s the Windbag?
albam - clothes
Interesting brand: plain and simple, mostly made in the UK, kind of Margaret Howell-ish.
Black Bird Fly(BBF-ブラックバードフライ)
A gorgeous plastic-bodied TLR that shoots medium format-style square images on 35mm film. Looks like you can only get them in Japan, sadly.

Today’s Links (04/10/08)

Jack Mottram — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:47:22 +0000

Subterranean Homesick Blues Encoded
I’m horrified to admit that this made me laugh.
Evernote API Overview | Evernote Corporation
This should allow for some cool stuff.
SurfinÃ¢â¬â¢ Safari - Blog Archive ÃÂ» Web Inspector Redesign
Splendid.
iPhone Developer Program
‘We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software.’ As a user, does this mean the developers who have made apps that can email files will tell all their freinds how to do it? Hope so.
Mackerel Economics in Prison Leads to Appreciation for Oily Fillets
Sha Na Na and the Invention of the Fifties
London A-Z
In iPhone form. Searchable, shows current location, generally looks quite slick, and you don’t need to be online to use it (which, since I drain my battery using Google Maps whenever I’m in London, is the tempting feature). ÃÂ£5.99.
Cocoa Touch Tutorial: iPhone Application Example

Today’s Links (11/09/08)

Jack Mottram — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:58:45 +0000

Improving my Delicious command for Ubiquity - 0xDECAFBAD - Mozilla Firefox
Great improvements, but this also highlights how counter-intuitive/confusing Ubiquity commands can be (see my comments on the post - it took me ages to work out how to use the new features, and I still can’t do my usual ‘quote something from the page I’m bookmarking, then add my own comment’ thing).
PGP, IBM help Bletchley Park raise funds | News - Security - CNET News
‘A campaign will be launched on Tuesday to ask U.S. tech companies to help save Bletchley Park, whose wartime work helped lay the foundations of modern computing and crytography. ‘
Panic - Extras - Miscellanous Bits of Panic
Panic are giving away Transmit 1.7 for OS 9, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the app. I’m pretty sure Transmit (nÃÂ©e Transit) is the only app I’ve used for ten years. Though nowadays it only gets launched very occasionally, thanks to ExpanDrive, which suits my light use of SFTP much better.
Servers at Sea
Interesting look at Google’s plans for wave-powered/sea water-cooled data centres on off-shore barges.
WebAIM: Blog - History of the browser user-agent string
Ironic Sans presents: Ow, My Eyes!
Here’s my verson of this page: If your site has a dark background and light text, you are a fucking dickhead. And I fucking hate you. You fucker.
Obama is RESTful » Idol Hands: Days in the Life of an Alpha Geek
"I spent some time this morning examining the technology policies of Barack Obama and John McCain. aside, was immediately struck by differences between their sites. So what do two sites say about candidates?"
snaptrip - authenticate
"snaptrip is a web application that aims to give you a better view of your past trips in Dopplr, including working with Flickr."
Hardformat » Various Artists - Recovery
I'm a sucker for a box set of vinyl, and a sucker for cover versions. So I bought a copy.
Hardformat - Reaching for the sublime in music design.
Does what it says on the tin. Well, less 'tin', more 'laser etched recycled cardboard sleeve with hand drawn tracing paper inserts'.
PostSpectacular: Faber Finds generative book covers
"A year ago Faber & Faber commissioned me to help with the design of a software system to generate complete & print ready book covers for their new imprint. The challenge proved to be more of a creative than a technical one, as the task given was to build a Ã¢â¬Ådesign machineÃ¢â¬Â which would be flexible enough to generate a very large (theoretically infinite) number of unique designs, one for each single book ever printed in this range, within the agreed boundaries set by the art direction(s) of Faber design team."
precipitate - Google Code
Search your stuff on Google Docs from Spotlight. (I don't use Google Docs, but really like this sort of integration between the desktop and web services.)

Today’s Links (16/04/08)

Jack Mottram — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:40:44 +0000

i am near
Fire Eagle-based service now tells you of nearby megaliths, as well as pubs. What more could you need?!
A List Apart: Articles: Accessible Data Visualization with Web Standards
Qwitter
Stop smoking with the aid of Twitter. Yeah, that’ll work.
Optimus · microformats transformer (version 0.5.1)
Also a validator.
Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files
The marathon is easy. There are no lions | Athletics | guardian.co.uk Sport
"Six Maasai warriors will run the London Marathon tomorrow to raise money for a well in their village. Isaya, 24, is their chief. This is a diary of his week in London, the first time he has left Tanzania."
simonsound » The Tone Generation - Around the world in electronic sound

Today’s Links (20/02/08)

Jack Mottram — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:22:03 +0000

William Bennett: ACT FINAL
Whitehouse are packing it in after their upcoming tour. Gutted.
You’re never going to believe this, but painting the Forth Bridge is almost licked
Heh.
Max, 19, hits the road | Travelog | Guardian Unlimited
I honestly thought this was a badly-done, sub-Nathan Barley spoof.
stevenf.com: Very Slow Airport Network
I’m having the same problem, and wasted ages yesterday assuming it was caused by my new Home Hub rather than Leopard. (Transfers between an iBook running 10.4 and the Eee PC are fine, so it must be an 10.5.2 bug, I think.)
Oregon Art Beat — Circuit Bending · Oregon Public Broadcasting
A nice short doc on circuit-bending.
Version Control with Subversion
Really clear reference and howto guide for Subversion.
Devthought - Guillermo Rauch’s Blog » WP-o-Matic. The WordPress RSS Agreggator
Slick WordPress plugin that makes posts from RSS feed items. (I’m using it to auto-post links to Tumble, including this one.)
Moderator says anti-English bigotry is ‘like sectarianism’ - Scotsman.com News
No shit. Also interesting that the comments at scotsman.com are only a couple of notches above YouTube level.

Worries In The Dance Vs. Best Dressed Jakey In Town

Jack Mottram — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:09:27 +0000

Worries In The Dance returns! Sister Motivator and I (and I), Nurse MÃÂ¶t, will be playing records alongside The Swami and Sugar Morrice of Best Dressed Jakey In Town, at Nice ‘N’ Sleazy on Friday the 29th of February, from 9pm until 3am. Free until 1am in the bar, ÃÂ£3 from 11.30 in the downstairs club.

Motivator and myself will be playing in our usual Gingermaican style: jaunty ska, slack dancehall, mongy dub and unconscious reggae.

Join us!

Click here to see the slightly bonkers flyer the Jakey chaps have made.

Controversy

Jack Mottram — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:25:35 +0000

This Prince spat is getting weird.

Earlier in the week, the three main fansites—Housequake.com, Prince.org and Prince Fams—joined forces under the banner of Prince Fans United to fight off threats from Prince’s legal team, which had forced the three sites to remove all images of Prince from their servers.

Sue this, Prince!

Prince’s response? He released a song, PFUnk, on a piss-take site, Prince Fams United.

And now, Prince has issued a rather slippery statement, claiming he was only really miffed about some live shots from the o2 Arena gigs, not every last image of him on every last fansite after all, and that, by barraging them with legal action, he’s actually ‘looking to provide fans with exclusive music… free of charge’.

I assume that’s a reference to PFUnk, a song that includes lyrics like ‘Hush yo mouth’ and ‘You might not like the taste, but I’ma stick your face in this funk’, and so, reasonably enough, has generally been interpreted as the little man saying, ‘Cock off, you whingeing twerps, I’ll do what I like’ to the people who pay his wages.