I don't suppose that there's any reason why holograms have to be created on a flat sheet.
It's traditional to do it that way, and it probably makes the optics easier, but there doesn't seem to be an especial reason why all of the sheet has to be at the same angle. If you...
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Sometimes it's fun to try to take the most ludicrously-abstract and pointless geometrical results and to try to turn them into something useful. It's a fun game, and the more abstract the thing is,...
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Max Richter – Memoryhouse
A reissue of the astonishing debut recording from Max Richter, a composer whose mastery of tonality and melody place him alongside Arvo Pärt, Henryk Górecki and Michael Nyman in the modern classical catalogue. there are other elements of Max Richter’s work that recall Gavin Bryars, John Cale’s soundtrack projects and...
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Such is the speed of technology that the once proud LP cover, 12 inches square, gatefold and legible has undergone miniturisation via illegibly tiny CD covers replicating cherished original artwork, to its current status as a 200 pixel square icon pressed into service as a usability aid in iPlayers, Squeezebox Duet, SqueezeCenter server and...
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Last night I started a Contemporary Dance course run by Evolution Arts. The course is led by dance duo Avis Cockbill and Janine Fletcher aka The Two Wrongies - the double act who dare to do the dirty! I've just checked out their website and there are s...
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I wandered past the Lego store in Churchill Square, Brighton this morning, to see that someone had shoved a plastic traffic cone through the window. Leaving aside the sheer strength required to propel a chunk of plastic through a sheet of glass, I found myself musing upon the fact that cleaning up the mess,...
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My friend Fiona Robyn is planning to blog her next novel, Thaw, beginning on the 1st of March next year.
The novel focuses on Ruth, who has given herself three months to decide whether she wants to carry on living.
In order to promote the novel, Fiona is looking for 1000 people willing to create a...
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Ruminants get a pretty raw deal when it comes to debates about climate change. Not only does their flatulence create massive amounts of methane (a gas which traps about twenty times as much heat in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, albeit for a shorter time period); they also consume vast quantities of grains. Grains...
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A vigorous rub down with high grade sandpaper does not turn me on. I get no frisson of excitement from power tools although a man in dirty overalls with a mouth full of nails does have a certain primal appeal. When jobs need doing I get a man in to do them. It has...
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