Month: May 2012
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Everything is a Remix
Dunno how I missed Everything is a Remix series on copyright and ideas by Kirby Ferguson – especially the last episode which spells out some of the big issues for copyright and IP law (and also includes The Kleptones in it!). With the world in need of good ideas how to stop climate change, how…
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A little bit of Razzamatazz…oh!
Never knew Pulp’s Razzamatazz had a video…a little look into Pulp before Lipgloss (which is where in Sheffield I jumped on), before Different Class, before that Glasto performance…the video is almost a prequel to Common People.
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RC 221: Stuff the Jubilee
Another 10 years and another Jubilee – this one the Diamond Jubilee, and then shortly after the Olympics for the full Union (I’m Alright) Jack overdrive, waved by the Dumb Flag Scum. More nationalism, more strangeness, more sucking up to Liz to try and get a gong by people who will claim that they are cool…
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Welcome to London 2012: Brand Exclusion Zone
I’ve been blogging and talking about my unhappiness of what’s going down in London 2012, and will talk about this more in the next podcast, up shortly. But this blog post talks about the Brand Exclusion zone where not only advertising by non-sponsors isn’t allowed but: This will be supported by preventing spectators from wearing…
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Solar Powered Waving Queen & Olympigs Mascots
You can tell the Jubly and the O£ympic$ are around the corner, because not only are all the shop fronts got strange Union Jack items and Queenbilia in them, the crap collectibles are hitting the streets. The Pink Solar Powered Waving Queens, for instance above – I swear, am NOT making this shit up. Or,…
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Rise for the coral
Most amazing video I’ve seen in a while – Rise by Antony & the Johnsons soundtracking the film ‘Coral: Rekindling Venus’ by Lynne Fallworth. It’s a digital ‘fulldome’ film intended to be projected on the inside of a planetarium dome – you can keep yer 3D, that sounds awesome. Such precious beauty, it’s obvious from…