Radicalising: IT-GUys and OOOWs

Image from a beach festival I covered over the weekend called, unsurprisingly, “Sun Splash”. In case the image isn’t clear, the guy in the picture has the logo painted on his shoulder. The body art/temporary tattoos were being done by the Teku Teku Daimyo guys, an environmental project who I interviewed a while ago. They [...]

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We’ll talk about this later

It was inevitable really: I am now on Twitter. As an ID “AboutThisLater” is just the most salient expressions of frustration at twitter’s systemic brevity, to which I have yet to adapt my mode of thinking. But it just about sums things up: the Twitter feed is part of my balooning interest in the way [...]

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The funny thing about my back is…

From Paul Isakson. Found this at the top of Google returns for “future marketing”. It’s almost exactly a year old. Maybe I’m lazy for clicking on the first return; maybe I’m going undercover as a consumer. Who can tell? It advises against social networking marketing by “trying to be everyone’s friend”. It advocates an approach [...]

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Rum, sophistry and the lash

Tea ceremony practice yesterday morning, then scripting and magazine work and avoidance work. I bought some chalk and started using my windows as blackboards for Iland plotting, A Beautiful Mind-style, and now I can’t really see out. Not that there’s much to see in my dim construction-aesthetic zoned residential. Then to school to practice my [...]

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Cloudside

Apologies are well and truly due. I completely failed to mention that I would be incommunicate for about three weeks while in India over Christmas and New Year.  Woops. Mea Culpa. Also Mea still untanned and sickly. Only I could go to India and return as milk-white and snotty as when I left. India pictures [...]

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Open Letter to the Man, supplementary: the project to convince my local magazine employer to build a free forum. I’ve been spending time reading the legal contracts used by webhosting companies, particularly Bluehost. Now, if anyone has any advice or horror stories about choosing one hoster over another then I’d love to hear it, but [...]

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Open letter to the man: Project Wormscan

Drinking: Kirin Strong 7 Reading: The Seagull Listening: The Columbia Broadcasting System Presents: Suspense (I went through a period in Uni of being barely able to sleep without listening to online archives of old radio shows, mainly episodes of the Goon Show, which ultimately found its way into my undergraduate thesis and which I could [...]

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