We got her from the dog pound nearly two years ago. Timid, anxious and shy, but every bit the fox terrier x – territorial, loyal, full of beans and very fine company. Of course spoilt rotten (what family city dog isn’t?). He she shoes just why we keep mammals as our closest pets, it looks like there is an expression in her face (try that with your budgie, fish, or reptile).
Monthly Archive for June, 2006
Melissa Gregg has a new url for her blog: www.homecookedtheory.com. As with Jean’s recent departure from hypertext.rmit this also indicates the importance of blogging to academic practice, and its continuing ’soft’ outsider status in relation to the academy.
Tags: hypertext, Lifes Little Pieces, miscellany, practiceSofa control is a nifty shareware application that lets the remote that ships with the new iMacs control a range of other software on the Mac. Scriptable and also lets you do some basic finder actions. One of those small, potentially elegant apps that adds useful functionality and playfulness. (Personally it would be very useful for Keynote presentations.)
Tags: Useful, One Day...Andrew Murphie appears to be the lead nomad for The Institute for the Perception of Matter. What appears to be a group blog on a post(Deleuzean) empiricist examination of what I guess might be the epistemologies of matter. Will be rich with possibilities, my personal view is that groups and blogs don’t mix nicely, so I’m both interested in the content and intrigued by what the form might bring.
Tags: deleuze, helpful urls, miscellanyJean Burgess has migrated her blog from hypertext.rmit to http://creativitymachine.net. I think the creation of a domain, presumably outside hosting, and the like is an indication of both how mature and important the blog has become, and of course that universities generally don’t get it (still) so it needs to go outside.
Tags: hypertext, miscellany
Marking student work, and geeking around as I took a photo on my new K750i and then got it onto the powerbook, thence to flickr, and finally the blog…
The point? Just to remind myself how to do things as now that the phone has a decent (2 megapixel) camera I want to rethink my blogging, research, and everyday media practice.
Dutch site that a) provides documentation relevant to streaming, b) is written by an individual who seeks commissions to write the documentation and then makes it available under a creative commons licence. Streaming suitcase, useful and productive. Via Seth.
Tags: toolsIt is time to return to some of the earlier vog experiments where there was a stronger consideration of the relation of text to the ’space’ of the videographic (vogographic?). I want to have some text back within the space of interaction, partly because for me vogging was always about text and video intertwingled. So, I think I’d better start on another small work that does this.
Tags: VoggingJeremy sent me this via email. Coverflow, interactive movie thing of your albums, on your computer. It is cool, and an example of what is meant by ‘cool’.
Tags: Lifes Little PiecesLaurene, Jeremy and I travelled to TarraWarra yesterday for a research retreat. We had a packed agenda, as Jeremy’s photos (off his phone) show, and we got through it all. Getting out of town, out of the office, away from phones, computers, into the country side, not only removes distractions but also helps with the process. You are stepping outside (in several senses of the term) to make things happen.
Why? Well we are now in the same office, we have fantastic studio space, and we are wanting to really set an agenda around practice based design media research. This means defining what we do, making this visible, and of course doing more of it, better.
Tags: Lifes Little Pieces, practice
