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Sep 14, 2020
Every few years I like to completely change my blogging setup. And it’s that time again. Having spread everything around I’m now experimenting with
Revising the 1972 Project
Aug 19, 2020
After making my video last Autumn, The 1972 Project has stalled somewhat, thanks to something that happened around March. It’s also mutated because
Starmer has effectively introduced a Twitter policy
Jun 26, 2020
In the light of my recent post about social media literacy I’ve been looking for a nice example to illustrate how it might work in practice, and
We desperately need social media literacy or the fascists will win
Jun 23, 2020
Get off the Internet I’ll meet you in the street Get off the Internet Destroy the right wing Le Tigra, 2001 Fiona was telling me about an
History is constantly being “erased”, and that’s OK.
Jun 12, 2020
That Boris Johnson is a fool hiding under the cloak of intellectualism is not in dispute, but sometimes he utters a nonsense that is actually worth
Last week a jigsaw saved my life
May 18, 2020
Six weeks into lockdown, or whatever it was a week ago, and things were still weird. In some ways they were weird because they were still weird.
Lost in Bluster
May 11, 2020
The Prime Minister’s speech Sunday night was… interesting. The basic message was pretty sensible - until the virus is under control nothing should
Insomnia Journal 07 May 20
May 7, 2020
It’s not strictly insomnia as once I get to sleep sometime around dawn I’ll likely be out for at least 8 hours, if not more, but insomnia is usually
Stirchley Safari
May 2, 2020
Inspired by the disconcertingly addictive Wild Earth livestreamed South African safaris (seriously, go check them out) and being aware that over the
Whales on the Hudson
Apr 30, 2020
I needed a bit of perking up the other night so I rewatched Ant-Man & The Wasp, one of the Marvel movies that is funny, fun and above all really
Closing the Covid browser tabs
Apr 24, 2020
I’ve been in a bit of a slump these last few days, knowing I’ve got things I could be doing but not finding the will or energy to do them. The
Solving (a bit of) the Coronavirus from home
Apr 16, 2020
When I read about the Folding@Home project the other day I immediately installed it on the powerful PC I got a few years ago to do machine learning
Stopping
Apr 9, 2020
Somebody noted the other day that I hadn’t written anything about [gestures at everything] which they felt was surprising, and yes, I have wanted to
A proposal to support independent businesses that cannot survive social distancing
Mar 17, 2020
This last week has been many things, few of them good. One of the things has been the realisation that many of the businesses that I want to see
A modest proposal for slowing down cars
Feb 26, 2020
Over the last year I’ve found myself getting more and more angry with motorists. it doesn’t help that I live in the UK’s motor city, designed for
Cross City Walks - the movie
Feb 6, 2020
Five years ago Andy Howlett and I undertook a bunch of walks in straight lines across Birmingham. We called them Cross City Walks and it became Our
Good composition is ideologically fraught
Feb 2, 2020
Last weekend I was running a Photo School Composition Workshop for the first time, meaning I’d been immersing myself in “good” photography and
Short Reviews of Films
Jan 11, 2020
Like many of you, I spent a reasonable amount of time this Winter watching films and telly. With a couple of months left to watch films and telly,
Understanding Gilliam, and other men of a certain age
Jan 4, 2020
Oh, Terry Gilliam.
Terry Gilliam faces backlash after labeling #MeToo a ‘witch-hunt’
Terry Gilliam on diversity: ‘I tell the world now I’m a black
Grace Lee’s talk: Diary, Discourse and Demonetisation
Dec 29, 2019
Grace Lee does good video essays, but she also has lots of thoughts about the pseudo-academic meta-stuff around video essays, and I love that kind
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