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Typography
Apologies for the lack of content lately but as you can see I’ve been tweaking the blog a bit. I’ve been working with a “framework” for theme design which allows me to create a sort of sub theme in which I have worked to create an attractive (I hope) layout that focuses on content and [...]
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video
Visual Music – Amon Tobin music video from 12FRAMES on Vimeo.
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3-2-1
for the musicians among my readership (there might be one, come on!) I have a great new site for you. The title above refers to the basic time signature of old English hornpipe music. the site (see blow) is a sort of file sharing service for sheet music.
ABC Notation
It’s a way of transcribing music. [...]
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‘millions of words’
“To write, I meditated, must be an act devoid of will. The word, like a deep ocean current, has to float to the surface of its own impulse. A child has no need to write, he is innocent. A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way [...]
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Six weeks
A few months ago I took a holiday. I went off to London, England for a while, six weeks. It was nice. I was alone to do what I needed but it ended sadly when I had to come home to deal with a sick cat who died shortly after my return. I’m glad I [...]
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8 pounds
A friend of mine just had a baby. Sweet little thing, and the baby, too!
I’m thrilled for him and his wife. They are both terribly nice, they are both obviously in love and this baby, I’m guessing one of several, was welcomed, anticipated and loved from the moment it was conceived.
I’ve written about a [...]
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7 days
I’m not sure what he was raving about, this old hobo on the corner of Cordova and Seymour. He was in a wheelchair of sorts a buggy in front of him with a huge pile of found treasures. He went on and on, to no one in particular, about welfare payments. Most people it seems [...]
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One more year
The things that make up a life. It’s hard to see, after years and years of living, how all the things that make us into what we are sit in our personalities. It’s hard to see how things that happened when we were twelve still affect us today. They get buried into the back of [...]
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Strike three
“Hello”
“Hi”
She was dressed like a fetish doll and not unattractive. Her voice was too loud, though and clipped and her makeup was from last night. “Want to buy a ring?”
“No,” I said softly and looked away. Strike one. The trolley bus lurched along Seymour and stumbled through a switch.
“Want to buy a camera? I have [...]
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Five in a row