Amazing

A couple of things to watch out for.

1. Why are there 2 TVs in the room?
2. The baby on the left has got a wicked good sway.

Thank you @paryshnikov

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It's been a while since I posted one of these

Awesome.

(Update - I should have said via: http://englishrussia.com/ - thanks Michael)

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Pulp Common People Comic

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Sweet.

This Jamie Hewlett comic was distributed with the Pulp single in France and it illustrates the lyrics of the song. You don't get that kind of thing with a bloody MP3 download.

Oh, unless you download The Suburbs by Arcade Fire and get the synchronized album artwork, which is a bit like this kind of thing, only less papery and cartoony and more digital - http://www.arcadefire.com/the-suburbs/

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My Final NMA Column - why I'm pre-post-digital and proud

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I've been speaking to a few people recently and they didn't know I had a column in New Media Age. Well now it's too late, because I don't any more.

My final column is here: http://bit.ly/cEOM8f (edited to fix duff link)

It's a bit ranty, but I thought I should make a bit of an effort to be a gobby shite as it's my last hoorah.

I was chatting to Russell about my column just after I'd submitted it, which prompted him to write this: 
A public apology for being one of the founders of the phrase.

It's time to stop all the nonsense about trying to call this stuff this or that. Only thing that matters is whether it's good or not. The only thing more stupid than all the word-monkeying is denying that technology, code and making things out of bits and bytes is important.

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Continued Google StreetView Awesomeness

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Ah, the defiant Englishman. In your face Googlecar.

Another one from the incredible: http://9eyes.tumblr.com

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Incredible images from Google Streetview

Amazing Tumblr: http://9eyes.tumblr.com

Some of the images are so mindblowing that I almost can't believe that they're real. I'd love it even more if there were links to the actual map references.

via: http://thefoxisblack.com/

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A Tale of Accidental Distortion

One day, at a local record store, virtually every record he tested on headphones had exactly the aspect he was looking for: Hard-edged drums, suggestively distorted. Back at home, though, everything flattened out into the clean, featureless world of contemporary tech house. It turned out that the amplifier in the shop's listening station was broken. Intrigued by the power of the music he heard in the store, he began experimenting with running sampled drums through distortion and overdrive, in order to give his music a rawness that it had previously lacked.

John Talabot (one of my favourite producers and Barcelona DJ) talks about how a broken amplifier in a record shop took his sound to a better place. I love little stories like this.

Check his stuff on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/artist/1YvN5uOGQkHVUUlZUcnotD

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What to do when you find that you can't use 'presenter view' at a conference

Just turned up at the CAT conference to find out that I can't use 'Presenter View' in Keynote. This has happened before and I just winged it. But today I figured I could find a quick way to get everything onto my iPhone in a simple way that will work with any version of Keynote and doesn't require any fancy apps...

So here's what to do if you find yourself in a 'can't see my presentation notes' kind of an emergency.

First, don't panic...

Then hit 'print' in Keynote...

Your special friend is 'save PDF to iPhoto'...

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Then just go to iTunes and sync your photos...

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And you're done.

You now have a perfectly usable set of notes inside the 'Photos' app on your iPhone.

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There might be a quicker way, but this felt like a pretty tight workflow in a sticky situation.

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3D Giffage

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This isn't a new technique, but every time I see it I think "blow me I need to use that for something sometime". This one just makes me think of Skins.

From http://photoisafeeling.tumblr.com/

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