Parking Spots – a nice concept – toy cars juxtaposed into real life. Lovely.
Richard Goodwin’s remix Of La Resistencia – with ingredients by Minnellium.
A nice chap called Richard Goodwin’s remixed a latin track by Los De Abajo on this site. The track called “La Resistencia” is not up my street, but is really upbeat. The reason I’m blogging it is because Richard used some of my home crafted drum loops that I give to the whole world for free on www.minnellium.com. A win-win. Nice one.
Easter 2006 – Phil, Anne and family – our first house guests
… well not quite our first house guests ever – just our first ones since starting to do up the house – so an adventure of sorts – and a bit of a watershed with the house refurbs. We had a great three days and nights and it was very prescious for us to watch all the children having such a memorable, happy time.
Special Editions
The FlipFlopFlyin site, one of my faves in cup-of-tea moments at work, has a great photo collection of special editions – cars which seem to be a ‘special’ model of some sort. These seem the norm now rather than the exception, which sort of makes it all a bit funny.
One red paperclip – a story of someone trading things in order to move up in the world.
Great story on this blog….
On July 12th, 2005 I posted a picture of
on this website. I traded my one red paperclip with Rawnie and Corinna for
which was exchanged with Annie for
that Shawn saw and bartered his
that was then swapped with Sgt. David J. for
that Marcin eyed and switched it for
that I traded Michel Barrette for his
that Jeff upped to
and then swapped with Bruno for
that Brendan upped the ante with
that Jody traded for
I’m going to keep trading for bigger or better things until I get a house
Springtime trip to Rye Close Farm
A lovely busy couple of days at Graeme and Fiona’s for a bit of horse riding, lots of eating, some obligatory bouncing and the odd drink…! Brilliant fun as always. Sally, Simon and Olly came up there too, so it was a bit of a family do.
Poor Angus
Had a good giggle at this post from my brother Phil’s blog.
Are You Worthy?
Found a great Photoshop Contest called “Are you worthy?”. Some top public information-type images that are poignant at times and downright hilarious at others.
Web 2.0 – it’s a great era and now we’ve got the validator
Thyere’s loads of stuff come to the fore over the last few months since someone somwhere coined the phrase “Web 2.0” – I can’t deny that the concept excites me. This article by O’Reilly sums it up really, especially the first page or so of it (it’s a long read).
In basic terms, the Web 2.0 concept (forgive me if i’m patronising you here) is about the new era the world wide web has now entered, and how bloody exciting it all is. “Web 1.0” was all about static info being pushed out to people – personal web sites, companies marketing things to people – but suddenly (it seems) the web’s turned very interactive and personal sites have now been replaced by blogs, online dictionaries have now been replaces by Wikipedia, Directories (Taxonomies) have now been replaces by Wikis (Folksonomies).
Anyway – the point of this post is just to say that I’ve stumbled across a brilliant Web 2.0 Validator – a way of testing whether your site (or any site) is of the new breed…. as if you didn’t know already! Optimistic times.
A clampdown on the freedom of artistic expression
Yes – I’m afraid all my paranoid fears are coming true. I was filling in time whilst changing trains at Birmingham New Street station by taking some photos of peoplle moving around the station, when I was ‘picked up’ by two undercover police officers interested in what on earth I was doing documenting a potential terrorist target like Birmingham New Street station. They took down my credentials and had a look at some of the photos. I didn’t even have time to edit the images and apply all the necessary filtering and cropping to make them look good – so slightly embarrassing on that score. I was a bit upset that they didn’t find my photos suitably controversial to censor them. Thast would have made me a more robust and convincing artist, but at least it means I’ve formally struggled to defend my art in the eyes of the law. Sort of.
A visit to see the Hughes family at Ripple
A great weekend away from the manic DIY ! Had a great stay with Andrew, Denise and WIll (Thanks!!). Also a couple of pics from a snowy weekend in Helmshore and of Olly on Sally’s birthday.
Frozen barbed wire
Strange things afoot in Helmshore today. Ice winds and driving sleet and snow combined with a temperature above melting point – all the trees and fences had this layer of ice on them and thre trees made a crackling sound in the wind. Chilly. Background is our house in the distance.