Pete Hindle

I was saving this bunch of links to write a piece about academia, but I’m in the middle of packing up my Newcastle flat and moving house – made more exciting than I’d like by things such as surprise house guests and exploding car engines. This means I can’t quite get my writing head into [...]

Wednesday was a bad day for me. I’d been carrying around a broken tooth, and leapt out of bed to make an emergency dental appointment. I then fixed breakfast and was just starting to gingerly chew my toast when I got a call from the benefits agency who told me that I wouldn’t be getting [...]

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 [...]

I was shopping with Brian in Morrisons when I noticed how bitter I had become. I turned to him and said “I hate cake”. It’s offical: I’m suffering from some form of bitterness that has subsumed my soul. This state is not unusual for me though; however, I think I’m going to have to say [...]

Part two of some, which seem to be slightly rambly. Oh well. Better out than in. Before I get going here, let’s just take a minute out to think about the image creators of the world. I’m not talking about painters, or any other type of specific mileau, but rather just the general act of [...]

Part one of some, in which you can read me espousing in a generalised year-end type way. The other day, a very clever man explained to me about careers and learning curves. He was saying that every two years we complete another learning curve, take a look around at the career we’ve been having, and [...]

Sheesh! You’d think that just having a website was enough. But no, I have to provide interesting content for my loyal readers. Well, if that’s the case, I’m going to do it with Bulletpoints, because they’re cool. I’m thinking of re-organising the site a bit more than it is already. I was hoping to make [...]

… when my university housing caught fire? At the fusebox? In the fireman’s strike? … when you hired that technician to run the video editing suite, who’d never used FCP or macs? … when all the lecturers took three days a week off, for what seemed like a month, right before the degree show? … [...]

I’m going to take a break from my review-writing and talk about some history.  About three years ago (2005), around this time of year (January), I had an interview for the UK’s highest educational establishment, the Royal College of Arts. Back then, I was really interested in making interactive art pieces. In some ways, I [...]