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July 26th, 2008
That’s it. No more. It’s over. I’m only sorry I couldn’t fit more of you in — the response this year was overwhelming, more than double that of last year. Apologies to the several hundred (!) of you I couldn’t show. It was actually really nice to see so many of you. There’s a little bit of public performance to doing a blog, and that sort of thing always works better when you can actually see the audience. And I know that some of you, at least, enjoyed seeing each other.
Thank you.
Maybe next week we’ll see how many of you want to shoot video. Heh.
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(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)July 25th, 2008
Nearly there.
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(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)This weekend and next week are rammed with good things to do here in NYC... here's a few suggestions, starting with tonight: Trouble & Bass w/ special guest DJ Diplo at LOVE Saturday afternoon and Saturday night: The Warm Up at PS1 - Special Disco Version, hosted by DFA And afterparty at Deitch Projects in LIC or Fixed with Friendly Fires LIVE at Santos Party House Sunday evening: Thee Wurst BBQ at Sunday Best - at The Yard in Brooklyn Next week includes: Speak Recordings and People Don't Dance No More present Play It Loud! and Prime Time w/...
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hoshuteki that we ought to go and see Hamlet in a bath, or similar. Briefly:- I got offered a job I don't understand today, but people were so nice about it (including the people I imagined hated me last week) that I'll probably say yes. It is not a useful job, but I have had many useful jobs and they did not work out.
- Also today, I listened to The Lurkers and The Merton Parkas and thought they still sounded quite good. Clearly, Indiejob owns my ass.
- Tell me about G.K. Chesterton!
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hoshuteki had lunch at Claridge's and brought me back a gift of Gordon Ramsay's balls in a presentation box.- I ate some of my potatoes and they were delicious. Lo, I am self-sufficient, for three or four days of the year.
Be seeing you!
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(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)You just can’t trust these people:
(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)"Warren [Ellis, who wrote the project] was a decision to usher this into pg-13," dos Santos said. "There’s no cursing… there’s no blood. It’s ’Warren Ellis Light,’ his style is all over the project. It’s within reason, and in good taste. Not that his work isn’t always in good taste, but sometimes it isn’t in good taste."
Ellis even sent a message to SDCC fans through dos Santos. "He wanted you to all know that he’s in England, sitting in his living room, naked, collecting all of Hasbro’s money, and he wants to thank all of you for that."
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(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)This time round, I received at least 500 more photos than I could possibly use. You people have amazed me. I’ve still got more to go through — and, yes, I’m looking at every single one of you — but in order to get this stunt wrapped semi-successfully today, I’m having to skim and post a representative selection.
The mosaic-making software is pretty random in how it crops and arranges the shots. So the second tier of this one is entirely serendipitous:
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(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)I noticed the other day that the new update of Twitter desktop client Twhirl includes support for the microvideoblogging service Seesmic. Microvideoblogging is probably a fairly absurd compound word, but it really does attempt to be a Twitter for video, in that it’s designed at least in part to facilitate both video statements and conversational call-and-response video. I think the limit on video length is a couple of minutes (can’t remember for sure, am at pub and basically can’t be bothered to check right now).
Flickr, of course, now supports short videos — 90 seconds, I think? Something like that.
And this week, I noticed a new entrant. 12seconds.tv. Applying the intent of Twitter to video. Like it says on the can: Twitter gives you 140 characters of text, and 12seconds.tv gives you 12 seconds of video.
I played with it a bit yesterday — tried three videos, only one of which played. But it’s a lovely idea. As is tying Seesmic into Twhirl, which puts “social video” (if you like) on your desktop.
I know a lot of people who love email because they hate the phone. But I also know a lot of people who’d rather phone, or send a photo, than write an email. And it’s that that has always made me wonder why videomail, in these broadband days of ours, has never made a bigger dent. Why I don’t get videomail in my inbox along with email.
Seesmic itself, I can’t get into. I don’t know anyone on the service, and clicking at random seems to either put you in the middle of a conversation you never heard, or gives you someone talking with an unhealthy level of excitement about how they’re going to eat a chocolate cookie. But if I had friends there, I’d doubtless be pleased that their sends were being interpolated with the Twitter device that lives on the desktop and pulls things down without my having to think about it.
12seconds may even prove workable for a more general populace, with its Twittery limitation. Regardless of its eventual fate, it’s an interesting iteration of the whole microblogging thing. And it’s one of the services that may eventually make my inbox more interesting.
(written on the Eee at the pub)
(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)
I still don't know what it's all about - it has similarities with, but is obviously not the same as the event Cllr Paul Bentley writes about here, but as he says, it is very colourful and friendly.
It also inevitably reminds me of our own Jack in the Green
I took this picture in 2006-
I notice the stewards in that photo are wearing tabards of the Thurkkai Amman Temple in Ealing, which is probably a clue, it seems to be the work of the Sri Lankan community.
I shall endeavor to find out more before tomorrow - including times.
Tags: hither green, lewisham, local interest, south east london
It’s Friday, it’s past noon UK time, and we’re back on the air. FREAKANGELS 0021 is up.
(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.)http://www.justgiving.com/angel10k
My first 10k, in aid of cancer, 2 August
http://www.justgiving.com/angeladid
My second 5k, in aid of diabetes, 7 September
http://www.run10ksponsorme.org/angeljoh
My second 10k, in aid of cancer, 21 September
http://www.justgiving.com/angelhalfmara
The day I die, in aid of the Speyside Trust, 19 October
also my sister is in hospital. :/
"There was wood and newspapers flying past me and a woman who I was talking to in first class, and then oxygen masks fell down," Dr Kane said.
It's from the Grauniad's report on the emergency landing of a Qantas jet (something that I really shouldn't be reading, given that I'm heading for the airport in two hours.)
Seriously, WTF is up with this quote? What actually happened to the "woman who I was talking to in first class"? Are we to believe that she was flying around the cabin along with the newspapers and wood? Were Dr Kane and her companion the only ones to experience the airborne wood and newspapers? Or is this Dr Kane's My Tornado Hell-esque attempt to crowbar in the fact that she wasn't in the cheap seats with the hoi polloi?
(In other, completely unrelated, news, my tongue still hurts a lot. But thank you all for helping to take my mind off it last night.)
EDIT: And let's not forget those idiots who routinely spell Qantas incorrectly.
Tags: bad journalism, self-absorbed people with money, wtf