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1. pictures in frames: I'm off to Toronto and I haven't got a stitch to wear »

   smoo:

   Massively under-prepared, in the midst of moving house, and two weeks and one day into a new job, I’m packing for TCAF. It’s very exciting, if frantic. Here’s what’s happening:

   On Thursday 3rd May I’ll be giving a talk at the Department of Geography, University of Toronto, entitled “The…

2 weeks ago 7 notes pictures in frames
2. smoo:

   I think I forgot to mention this was happening:

   videoloft:

   Smoo Documentary

   
   So what are we up to?

   Currently we are working with indie comic artist Simon Moreton on a documentary about mental health in comics. After seeing an inspiring lecture at Bristol Comic-Con last year, Videoloft are working with Simon to explore mental health through comics and the way different art forms can help others through tough times.

   Simon’s work is often self reflective, and heady, an intelligent mix of biographical and the fantastical, bringing the mundanity of life to unusual, thought provoking heights.

   Taking a close look and recreating parts of Simons work Smoo and The Escapologist , Videoloft are creating a mix media project crossing genres, and formats (along with our animation partners Kayleigh and Tom).

   Smoo: The Documentary (title subject to much change!) coming soon!

   So if your interested, go an get a headstart on the project and take a look at Simons links below!

   smoo.tumblr.com

   http://www.betterdrawn.com/

   In other news we are still slogging hard away on Adventures in Brine our comedy sketch show and will try to churn out some more of these. Greg will be heading away to Japan to shoot an Earthquake follow up doc for a couple of months (For Uni) and Addy and Sarah will be away travelling for 4 months around the world (Mostly Japan and Australia by the sounds of things…). But while the gang are away Smoo will be completed and i’m sure we will have lots of unusual things popping out.

   Keep ‘em peeled.

3 months ago 38 notes pictures in frames
3. Twine: Entry level ad-hoc Internet of Things... »

   Think this would be a great tool to work with in schools. Entry-level computer skills linked to physical world. Can see it making sense to people of all generations.

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4. Soviet visions of the future »
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5. 

   Causality, Ben Woodeson.

   One of my favourite artists is having a show in Hackney. Go see it!

8 months ago 7 notes

6. Uh oh, short-tempered and sarcastic AI chatbots seek divinity, bodies and arguments. Next they’ll want our clothes, boots and our motorcycles.

   AI vs. AI. Two chatbots talking to each other (by CornellCCSL)

8 months ago 2 notes
7. 

   Hayabusa over the Sky II by Kouji Ohnishi

   From the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2011
   

9 months ago 2 notes
8. Caring for Your Introvert - The Atlantic »

   Ignore the comment thread underneath and enjoy this succinct piece.

9 months ago 0 notes
9. Summer project! »
10 months ago 24 notes

10. A Pale Blue Dot

    “Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity — in all this vastness — there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.”

    
    This never ceases to blow my mind.

11 months ago 4 notes

11. Travel

    

    Mike Nelson’s I, Impostor for the 54th Venice Biennale Photograph: CRISTIANO CORTE

    The presence of Mike Nelson means I will actually make it to Venice this year. Hopefully by way of Linz for Ars Electronica 2011 and maybe a stop off in Berlin to see some friends.

    Mike Nelson: A Psychic Vacuum / Remix

11 months ago 6 notes
12. OpenPaths »

    Nefarious Apple Inc. data tracking turned into an interesting project by the New York Times digital team.

11 months ago 25 notes

13. BBC + AWOBMOLG + “The Net”

    Vol Libre (by Loren Carpenter)

    Carpenter was featured in Adam Curtis’ first third of All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace last the other night on the BBC. The documentary was an antagonistic socio-techno-political lecture/dog’s dinner (in good and bad ways). Carpenter and his giant Pong/human murmuration experiment stood out for me and I’m glad I looked him up.

    AWOBMOLG was also enjoyable because it was on BBC2, featured reels of over-saturated nineties NSTC footage and therefore brought back fond memories from my geekily mispent youth watching BBC’s The Net; reading Microserfs and emailing my best mate (three streets over) about it using my numerical character only address. Despite its name, subject matter and the BBC’s track record it is hard to find much about The Net on the, uh, net. If you have more then send me an “E-Mail” to 76736.334@compuserve.com.

    Here is a retro treat. As with Curtis’ film this clip features the Clinton family but without the unsettling Lewinsky/Leonard Cohen overdub.

12 months ago 2 notes
14. pictures in frames: Bristol Small Press and Comic Expo 2011, Pt. 3 - On comics and mental health »

    smoo:

    As I mentioned in a previous post, during this year’s Bristol Comic and Small Press Expo I took part in a panel discussion on comics and mental health, organised by Ian Williams of Graphic Medicine. We had around 15 people in attendance, and, despite technical difficulties (that is, no…

12 months ago 6 notes pictures in frames
15. Polyphony-Pecha-Kucha - Wed 25th May »

    Looks like an interesting event, can’t make it to Brighton that day though. Warning: PDF direct link, some more general info here.

1 year ago 12 notes

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