Category Archives: found stuff

Straight 8, super 8, gr8

3 March 2009 – 2:11 pm

"Entries are now open for this year’s Straight 8 competition. For those of you not in the know, Straight 8 invites filmmakers to make a film on a single cartridge of super 8 film and enter it undeveloped and unedited to the competition (with an original soundtrack). Then you just sit back and wait to […]

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Mark Lawson acts a bit of a presumptuous git

28 February 2009 – 1:10 am

Mark Lawson in The Guardian: “Most art – and certainly the greatest examples – is private and exclusive, created by elite professionals for an audience of amateurs. Though touched by it, we cannot touch it. Schemes that physically involve the public in art or music are an important part of art, but should remain a […]

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Some thoughts on good meetings – Jon Hickman's posterous

26 February 2009 – 12:02 am

"love the fact that "good meeting" is an emergent meme on Twitter: the phrase is seen by a lot of people on Twitter as an empty platitude, the twitter equivalent of saying "er"." I did have a good meeting with Mr Hickman the other day, too. – Some thoughts on good meetings – Jon Hickman's […]

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The miner and the copper

24 February 2009 – 1:02 pm

Great piece of writing, about t one of the abiding images of the 1984 miners strike – "Guardian photographer Don McPhee's picture of a picketing miner facing up to an officer. But what happened to the two protagonists?". There's also a bit about it on Inside Out, BBC1, 7.30pm 24/2 in Yorkshire, if it appears […]

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Half Map Half Biscuit

18 February 2009 – 10:27 am

A map of everywhere mentioned in a Half Man Half Biscuit song. Genuis psychogeography.

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Black dog on my shoulder

14 February 2009 – 5:50 pm

Following on from the warmly received post on the happiness of various cat food models, it’s only inevitable that I should be looking at dogs next. After this, who knows. I did have a look to see whether the fish on the fish food packaging looked happy, but they’re a bunch of cold-blooded emotionless bastards. […]

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Bad Science needs help, or at least link love

6 February 2009 – 1:07 pm

Ben Goldacre has had a nastygram from LBC 97.3 and “Global Radio” over posting audio of what he describes as "Jeni Barnett’s MMR scaremongering". If you're in a position to help, it would be appreciated. – Bad Science needs help, or at least link love.

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Stephen Fry stuck in a lift

3 February 2009 – 11:00 pm

Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Stephen Fry is stuck in a lift. Now will this cause Twitpic as much touble as the plane in a river? TwitPic – Share photos on twitter

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Charlton and the “reallies?”

2 February 2009 – 9:43 am

TV critic and now TV star Charlie Brooker is on Twitter, he calls himself CharltonBrooker, you can tell it’s him no-one else could get enough bile into 140 characters. He’s an old-school computo-phile (he used to write about computer games, and indeed the computer magazines of the eighties were a fabulous breeding ground for journalists), […]

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Momus on Matt McGinn

16 January 2009 – 10:44 am

Scottish songwriter and aesthete Momus on Matt McGinn — “communist, atheist, republican, and perhaps Scotland’s most interesting satirical songwriter” [youtube:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hUogk0VhaQQ]

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