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Instructional Videos are Bullshit

(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, [...]

Meditations (after Aurelius)

RSS readers might need to click through for the video.
EDIT: I recorded this video using Photobooth and uploaded it to Vimeo, but it seems that – like every video I record with Photobooth – something went wrong with it. In fact, I have a whole litany of hate just for Photobooth, as every occasion I’ve [...]

Old Video, New Post

I’m putting this up because my mum told me she liked it. Thanks! It’s a video made with the programming language Processing, inspired by the work of Douglas Coupland.

Let a Thousand James Hugonin Paintings Bloom

James Hugonin is an artist who lives in Northumbria, and makes paintings that reflect his surroundings by taking the predominant colour for each day and painting a square in that colour. This is very procedural art, and therefore it lends itself very well to make a computer program that does the same thing.
This would probably [...]

Lucky Three, the mid-90’s mediascape, and the Long Now

Now that we’ve shaken off the annoyances of changing themes, let’s talk fun stuff.

The video above is such a classic piece of mid-1990’s footage. The style of it is pretty eye-catching, washed in original sentiment grunge, but gear-heads like me will notice the reel-to-reel tape recorder in some of the session footage. Do you know [...]

I LIVE!

I LIVE!, originally uploaded by Pete Hindle.

I’m unable to do most things at the minute, as I’m recovering from an injury to my leg. This means that I’m in bed, in Whitburn, mostly without the internet.

FastSlowReverse

FastSlowReverse
EDIT Seems to be some sort of clash between vimeo.com and the rest of the universe in regards to video hosting. Anyway, go here to see the video in a player (which should be easy to embed but it’s not) and read about why I’ve only made one arts-related video in the past year.