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Skip’s Acorn Treasury

mark — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:26:11 +0000

Superbly funny blog from James Goss, who is just as delightful in real life. James is a wonderfully talented new media producer for loads of great tv shows on BBC and C4, a playwright & author and all round good egg. Sample tags include ’sex’ ‘tv’ and ’self pity’ and you can read Skip’s Acorn Treasury yourself to get the full picture.

Not work safe if you happen to be employed by chinless monkeys, but for the rest of us it’s just essential reading.

Click for Art

mark — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:23:25 +0000

Some really great prints over at Click for Art. See if you can guess what I want for Christmas.

Fuck off Jimmy

mark — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:14:46 +0000

I hate James Bond films.
I’ve never looked forward to them and have always groaned inwardly whenever I’ve had to watch any one of the dire movies, no matter who was playing 007, and today I read a quote, from David Mitchell, that just about sums it up for me.

“The main thing about James Bond is that he doesn’t give a shit what anyone thinks. He’s a bit of a dick, really – not someone you’d want to end up next to at a dinner party – but he keeps saving the world, so, you know, fair enough.”

See what I mean.

The not so long tail

mark — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:59:30 +0000

Ooops. New evidence suggests that the Long Tail effect may not have panned out as first thought. In fact, the word used is ‘debunked’. Read it here.

Little Big Planet

mark — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:48:28 +0000

This is my obligatory Little Big Planet post.

If you haven’t come across LBP then you must have been hiding out in a cave hoping that the CIA don’t come round for tea. For those of you that aren’t on the run from the forces of international justice then you’ll undoubtedly know that it’s an amazing looking game that sort of lets you construct your own levels, environments, interactions and various other treats.

Made by Media Molecule who have also posted up a pretty good flickr album. Nice.

Industry networking

mark — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:23:26 +0000

I’ve been doing a lot of it lately and over the past few days I’ve found myself variously at a very pleasant tea party in the Blue Peter Garden, at NESTA with folks in the film and digital industries, at a Multiplatform TV seminar and at a Media Trust event with charites & the one common feature with all of those events is that no matter what the mix of industries we all ended up talking to other people from our own industry. All of us…not just me.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I find it enormously valuable meeting others who work in the same industry as me (and that I professionally admire) but I would love it if the networking paid off the way it’s supposed to i.e. we meet new people who might want to work with us or hire us. Instead we share highs and lows and compare battle scars with our peers.

This isn’t a pop at the folks who organise such events (I think you do a great job) but rather a call to anybody at an event that I’m at…please feel free to say HELLO even if you do not recognise me, and I will promise to the same to the people that I don’t know.

Wikiscanner

mark — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:13:05 +0000

Want to big up your Wikipedia entry in the hope of fooling everybody into thinking that you’re very very nice instead of very very naughty? Well don’t…unless you want your underhand tinkerings to be discovered for all to see via Wikiscanner - see this article on the BBC to get the idea.

Form + Function

mark — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:44:55 +0000

An interesting article about digital design – “When you create a utility, you’re creating something that gives people time back,” said Nick Law, CCO for North America at R/GA. “It becomes less about information as pollution and more about information to help get through life”

12 future apps for your iphone

mark — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:35:59 +0000

Now, I don’t actually own an iphone (I really wanted it to have 3g you see) but I do own an ipod touch and while I was initially fairly impressed with it’s browser and interface the google maps app for it just knocked me out. Apple have recently released the SDK for the iphone and ipod touch & it’s just a matter of time before it can do amazing stuff that we haven’t even started thinking about. One of the best posts I’ve read on the potential of this device, and mobile in general, is over here at 12 future apps for your iphone. Guess what I’ll be looking at next…

Link found via Ryan C’s Twitter feed – cheers:)

From my cold dead hand…

mark — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:06:24 +0000

Armed America – Portraits of gun owners in their homes. Photographs by Kyle Cassidy.