(SuperAmazingDoesItForYou video link)
After a morning spent tussling with installing, then uninstalling Zotero, I’ve finally had it with those instructional videos that software designers create. I think that nothing beats the written word for communication of information, but I’m consistently finding that complex software is being explained by the use of an instructional video.
And usually, that video sucks. Seriously, [...]
Instructional Videos are Bullshit
Feb 7, ’10
11:10 PM
Briefly, Links (23/01/10)
Jan 23, ’10
8:45 PM
Genevieve Valentine is a writer and essayist, working in the SF area. She also has an obsession with Catherine Cookson TV movies, where high levels of snark are to be found – although this mainly seems to come out on her Livejournal blog.
Zed Shaw is an important man in the Ruby on Rails world, but [...]
MMX – The Start of the Post-Digital Decade
Jan 9, ’10
8:24 AM
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 [...]
The Culture (and Appreciation) of Screaming Hand
Dec 30, ’09
10:36 PM
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 [...]
Procrastination with Pointy Ears
Oct 25, ’09
6:05 PM
Star Trek – the 2009 version – turned into a large image. I used this software that did the hard work.
The Non-Art of Subtitling and the Reductionist Use of Humour within Critical and Artistic Elements of the New Media Artwork
Oct 11, ’09
2:54 AM
On Friday, I left the house for Datarama, Newcastle’s software version of Dorkbot. Well, maybe it’s a more artistic, friendly version of Dorkbot, without all the posturing that can be seen at the Limehouse. That’s not strictly important.
What is important is that, whilst there, I presented my resubtitled version of Gran Torismo.
Gran.Torino.subtitles (that’s the subtitle [...]
Researching Tumblr
Sep 8, ’09
10:11 PM
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.
An Ironic Reading of Portions from Silver Surfer, Issues 5 and 6
Aug 2, ’09
12:43 AM
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 [...]
The Alternative Career Matrix
May 10, ’09
1:25 AM
Paid?
Realistic?
Training Time?
Mortgage?
Is it a steady job?
Creative?
Fun?
Policeman
Yes
No
Two years?
Yes
Yes (always)
No
unknown
Teacher
Yes, mostly
No
One year + one year
yes
Sometimes
could be…
I hate kids
Accountant
Yes
No
5 years?
yes
Mostly
No
Audit, maybe
Bike Courier
low
no
n/a but legs need musciles
No
No
No, but would have time
Yes
Chef (including coffee guy)
Some
No
at least 3 years
No
Yes
Yes
Hell on earth
IT Guy
badly
Yes
ongoing
50/50
Suppose
No
No (microsoft)
Web Guy
badly
yes
6 months
50/50
no
kinda
kinda
Capitalism Versus Culture
May 2, ’09
4:12 PM
If anyone would like to make me a t-shirt with this truism on it, please send me a copy. Ta.
