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Who Stole My Volcano? Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the...
I saw Sir Ken Adam, production designer of numerous Bonds, Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang and Dr. Strangelove amongst other movies, interviewed by Christopher Frayling at the V&A last Friday, as part of...
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The Bourne Infrastructure
BondBourne, originally uploaded by rodcorp. In the art bar at the RCA last night with Noam, we started discussing my recent obsession with the dematerialisation of super-villainy. I haven’t seen the...
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Close encounter
Close Encounters of the Third Kind was being shown on TV this weekend. I happened across it accidently, and sat glued to it for a couple of hours, realising perhaps how burnt into my subconcious some...
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Obsessed with the production design of The President’s Analyst
I thought that delivering my webstock talk, and finishing reading Welcome To Mars, Cold War Modern and The Bomb while on holiday would let me escape my obsession with the post-war and the high-modern....
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Waking up, waking up has never been easy.
What Anarchists Drive, originally uploaded by Ben Terrett. “The sequence of events in the successfully waking world was generally more or less as follows. The starting point, it will be remembered,...
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PsychogeoG20
Channel4 News’s estimable Jon Snow on the psychogeographic-significance of the G20 summit being held in the Excel centre in London’s Docklands. “Even in the best of times, this is a dump, a warehouse...
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Fun Palace
Pretty near the BERG studio, on the edge of the City of London, is this structure. It’s a golf driving range, with astroturf, a wooden faux-bavarian wurst shack, a bar, a golf store and a few other...
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We are the machines of loving grace
And/Nand/Or/Nor And/Nand/Or/Nor “what Pickering really does is put forward that these cyberneticians (in particular, as opposed to American crowd more occupied with control systems) saw “intelligence”...
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The Ouija-Board in the cupboard
Will Davies on the deathly Blairification of David Cameron: These are men of focus groups, Clinton-esque handshakes, drinks parties and interviews on sofas. But they then discover that they control...
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Blog all dog-eared unpages: The Red Men by Matthew De Abaitua
I’d been recommended “The Red Men” by many. Webb, Timo, Rod, Schulze, Bridle (who originally published it) all mentioned it in conversation monthly, and sometimes weekly as memetic tides of our work...
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Resting Algorithmic-Judgement Face
The WSJ published an “explainer” on visual facial recognition technology recently. They’re to be commended on the clear wording of their intro, and policy on personal/biometric info… As most people who...
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Wellbeck / Believe
“Stunning” car park will be demolished to make way for Eric Parry-designed hotel Must remember to go and pay homage before it gets knocked-down. Perhaps being chased by an imaginary, homicidal...
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“For the ‘One Hundred Billion Sparks’ album project I want to tell a story of our one hundred billion sparking neurones, and the magic which they create: our minds. Early in the story I aimed for the...
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