Slint are a seminal alternate guitar-rock band from the 1990s. I first came across them on the soundtrack to Larry Clark’s Kids, which was one of those albums which promised that the film would be a-fucking-mazing. Instead it was a bit of a bummer, but the majesty of Slint’s “Good Morning Captain”…
Steph Swainston’s Fourlands is [...]
I love these shoes! They’re my favourite ever trainers, and I say this as a thirty-one year old man who has owned one pair of ‘proper shoes’ since leaving school. That is a lot of trainers, running the entire gamut of casual foot-covering styles, from skateboard pretentiousness to faux-classy leatherette things. What makes these shoes [...]
I originally wrote this for the back page of The Crack Magazine (hi Helen!) sometime last summer, but a series of events caused it to disappear for a while. I just remembered where I had a copy, and decided to put it up. Back when I wrote this, Tesco had just taken over the Chillingham [...]
I spent the whole of Sunday obsessing over my space pen, because I’d lost it. I also broke my tooth, but I was far more concerned over my pen. I mean, that pen’s damned good.
I think it’s because I’d had that pen on me, continually, for over a year. I originally brought it because I [...]
2010 and after are going to be about post-digital, by which I mean what comes after we’ve finished staring at our screens. We’re going to see an explosion in the amount of physical objects that would have been impossible without using digital process in the workflow, and objects that won’t work without a connection of some kind [...]
This book starts with a potted history of Wikipedia, beginning at it’s predecessor Nupedia, and then follows the development of the site until sometime in mid-2008, when the book was published. As an effort to keep up with both change and the technology, a wiki was set up to act as an afterword. Weirdly, although [...]
Above is an image by illustrator Jim Phillips, called ‘Screaming Hand’. It’s one of the most famous pieces of graphic design in the skateboarding culture, a piece of marketing that would still be in use as a company icon twenty-five years later.
Such is the fame of this image that Phillips himself relates this tale of [...]
I think I’ve narrowed my future career path down to these few options:
Wise Urban Shaman
Bedroom Nerd
Wise Bedroom Nerd
Sadly, I don’t think “Bedroom Shaman” will come up as a career option any time soon.
I’d have to say that Tumblr’s great if you want to look at pictures of bookshelves or semi-naked women. It really fails at presenting anything more complex though.
In my teenage years, I had a big comic habit (graciously funded by my parents). It all started with the Silver Surfer double-issue where the Kree-Skrull war kicked off, on a holiday in Saffron Walden. I can’t remember the year it was, but it was before my reading speed kicked into the ludicrously high speed [...]
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