Category Archives: from the blogroll

N SKY C

By 6000 | 6000 | June 22, 2011

Via deleteyourself (see the blogroll): N SKY C Today is the summer solstice, which is a perfect day to announce my latest internet “art” project. I wrote a program that takes a picture outside of my office window every 5 minutes. It uploads the photo to a server and then analyzes the sky portion to [...]

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Brahms did not torture and murder cats for sport

By 6000 | 6000 | May 23, 2011

Logging on to teh interwebs for the first time in a few days brought some laughs on an otherwise cold and grey Monday morning, the best of them being this line: Brahms did not torture and murder cats for sport. Wagner, who had musical differences with Brahms, and who was an utter shit, made the story up. [...]

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Sincere signwriting

By 6000 | 6000 | May 11, 2011

More great stuff from my favourite UK blogger, Brian Micklethwait, albeit while wearing his Samizdata trousers and hat. Brian says: That is a sign which I think I would have noticed even if I had not been noticing signs generally at all. It’s as if its creator was, while creating it, thinking and feeling something [...]

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Tower view

By 6000 | 6000 | May 3, 2011

One here for Mr Brian Micklethwait of BrianMicklethwaitDotCom fame who is a big fan of the Strata Tower – or at least a big fan of taking photographs of it (see here, here, here and more recently here). But despite his best efforts, not even Brian has got a pic from this angle (AFAIK, anyway): [...]

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Brian on Art

By 6000 | 6000 | April 7, 2011

Regular readers will know of my fondness for Brian Micklethwait’s blog and his narrative, no nonsense style of writing. Today, Brian gave us a collage of Anthony Gormley’s exhibit(s?) in London during the summer of 2007. But it wasn’t the pictures that piqued my interest so much as Brian’s commentary: For some damn fool artistic [...]

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