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Types:D’log‘s visitor numbers continue to rise healthily; exact figures due tommorrow. Also recorded in the logs are visitor Operating Systems: Windows users = 96.5 percent; Macintosh users = 3 percent; Linux users = 0.5 percent. And visitor Web Browsers: Internet Explorer = 90 percent, Netscape = 9 percent, Opera = 1 percent. All change at […]

Digita events:My Digita events listing has updated. A dozen new events for the e-techies & digital creatives of the West Midlands. I know, I know; the design is looking very ‘long in the tooth’. It was done in 1997 and is now in dire need of a makeover. Maybe when a funding cheque finally materialises? […]

Minehead, here we come….‘Our True Intent Is All For Your Delight’ is a new book edited by photographer Martin Parr, who was responsible for the charming Boring Postcards collection a few years ago. Published in October, the book’s title comes from the famous Butlin’s slogan, and features the promotional postcards which John Hinde made for […]

DigiTech meets theatre:A three-day conference, the 1st International Conference for Digital Technologies and Performance Arts, has just been announced. It’s happening at Doncaster College, from 27th to 29th June 2003, and…. “will explore, debate and demonstrate the potential creative opportunities that can exist between performance arts and digital technologies.” There’s no web-site yet, but they […]

Digitalis 2:My Sketching the Celts generative Flash animation has been selected for the forthcoming Canadian exhibition Digitalis 2 – The Spiritual in Digital Art, sheduled to run from 23rd February to March 29th 2003. Mouse or Super-hero?:A recent PACT report from April 2002 which escaped my attention; Mouse or Super-hero? The state of the UK […]

Haiku for u:Guto Carvalho is looking for what he calls “haiku films” to show as part of the “XIV Brazilian Haiku Festival”, focused on…. “the imaging of Haiku poetry”, this screening will…. “be a broad retrospective of haiku-films, animated haiku, interactive haiku, all based on the tenets of this Japanese traditional poetry form.” A haiku […]

Liberty & Livelihood:I would love to say I’ve done the right thing, and am blogging this entry from a mobile touchpad somewhere in central London, while shouting ‘tally-ho!’ and proceeding to hunt down a fleeing Prescott or two. But, much as I’d like to be one of the Liberty & Livelihood marchers, I just couldn’t […]

Twelve for…?:On the way to fetch my refurbished bike, I crossed a newly mown field. No less than twelve magpies were hopping around in one corner. The rhyme “one for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl…” usually stops at seven, though. I’d like to think that twelve signifies “marriage”, but where’s the girl? […]

Pixel pop:The latest issue of Wired prints a quick vox pop, on how digital camera s change the nature of photography. Of course:South Birmingham College is offering an ‘S/NVQ in Visual and Applied Arts Practice at Level 4’. This incomprehensible title translates from F.E.-speak into plain English thus… “The course is aimed at professional artists […]

Under the microscope:The winning photographs in the Novartis / Daily Telegraph Visions of Science 2002 competition are now online. Bike brush-up:Humbled by the awesome ‘tuned up -ness’ of the racing mountain bikes on show at Sleepless in the Saddle, I took my bike to the local repair shop for its two-year service today. On Friday […]

DreamWare:Coming out of the The Potteries Art Gallery I spotted this colourful outfit across the street. I couldn’t resist stopping the owner and asking for a photo. The multicolored hair-braids (just visible) complemented both the long ribbed shawl/jacket and the chunky purple flares. Perfect for the coming Indian Summer. (large version, 85kb)

Fog on the Tyne:I suspect the writer of this Spiked article might not like the Tyne arts renaissance quite as much as others do… “Tyneside is now as empty, characterless and vomit-splattered as everywhere else” … “this is a gutless, anaesthetic resort of almost tangible spiritual emptiness, but very appealing nevertheless to overfed and overdressed […]

Fog on the Tyne:I suspect the writer of this Spiked article might not like the Tyne arts renaissance quite as much as others do… “Tyneside is now as empty, characterless and vomit-splattered as everywhere else” … “this is a gutless, anaesthetic resort of almost tangible spiritual emptiness, but very appealing nevertheless to overfed and overdressed […]

Firmware:Don’t junk that old CD-R drive just because 650Mb CD-R’s are becoming scarcer. I found a firmware update on the web, downloaded it, applied it to my CD-R (some old DOS “cd ..” skills needed here), and it now burns the newer 700Mb CD-R’s perfectly.

Photofest is go!The new Hereford Festival of Photography 2002 web-site is now online. As well as exhibitions (John Hodgett, Clive Landen, Lesley McIntyre, Homer Sykes, Waltraut Tanzler, Joanna Vestey, Manfred Wirtz, among others) there are also portfolio days, talks and a digital photography masterclass. Also part of the Festival is a competition to find the […]

Leek Peek:I went over to the town of Leek, on the border of the Peak District National Park, for the opening of fresh (site will be live in the next 24 hours), a new show featuring work by my friend Mark Wood. The venue was impressive, the Moorland Arts & Antique Centre; most assuredly not […]

Creative Hinderances:It appears there’s no way I’m going to get to the Creative Clusters Summit Conference. Because the price has been announced; £300 plus VAT, plus hotel, plus train tickets, plus food. 🙁 Which basically means £500. Oh well; if you’re also skint and yet interested in creative clusters too, then feel free to read […]

A brush with fame:See famous paintings by masters ranging from Van Gogh to Picasso, up close, at the Radio House Gallery in Swan Street, Warwick (Free registration required). Or not; the catch is that they’re all perfect expert-fooling fakes made by John Myatt, the master forger from Sugnall in Staffordshire. Hollywood star Michael Douglas is […]