Ponoko Blog

Ponoko Blog

I'm starting in a new role writing blog posts for Ponoko this week - should be fun and a good opportunity to write and think more about OSPD. It certainly means writing more!

TGKW

Rik and Martha
Originally uploaded by TGKW

This chap is annoyingly young and talented but takes good photies. Of Glasgow. and its people.

New photos on Roy's Flickr

Shields Rd
Originally uploaded by Spherical Roy

From a few recent days out and last week's holiday down south.

Things to say about Hauntology

when you don't really know anything about it:

Hauntology: its so passé.

or

As far as I can tell, hauntology is just a new word for old-skool!

Zero-waste Design update

Have updated www.zero-waste.co.uk - particularly the projects page brings people more up to date with my design happenings

Drawing Radiohead

green plastic radiohead: Drawing Radiohead

An interesting 6 minute video showing Stanley Donwood doing a run of screenprints in his studio.

Progress.

via core77

Obsession Mk II

Following Gilly's wanton criticism of my personal ramblings, I am updating my three quality bottom line of obsession to exhilaration, elegance and community. I couldn't find an appropriate word beginning with e.

In this current trend for wielding the philosophical knife, I am tagging posts such as these, ersatz-philosophy.

voice in smoke

entschwindet und vergeht: Ghost Voices

Murphy blogged recently the earliest recording of a human voice..

Obsession

There are three qualities that motivate me in any activity: exhilaration, elegance, and sharing.

When cycling, I like to cycle fast, feeling the exhilaration of the wind in my face. I ride a fixie, the simplest, most elegant form of bike. I bought it from a social enterprise in Maryhill, sharing the assembly with those who can benefit most from the experience. I love the closeness of the messenger/fixie community in Glasgow, and how the best way to do anything with bikes here is to talk to someone else about it.

When doing design work, I am obsessed with elegance, and seek out the exhilaration one feels when having created anything. I strive for a more sharing community in industrial design, hence Zero-waste.

As for music, this is where all three are inextricably bound up. Playing for excitement, for beauty and for the act of interaction with players and audience, altogether, makes perfect sense to me.

I could go on, applying this thinking to why I do and don't like flying kites, why I like travelling, why I like staying in one place, why I'm unsure about moving flats.

The bottom line is that I'm not hyperactive - I'm obsessive, and will pursue any activity to satisfy these obsessions.

I want this, but its sold out.

The Designing Automata Kit, Sold Out £44.50

and I especially would like one of these ones!

non news

I've rearranged all my collections on my Flickr page so that they make more sense. At least I didn't geo-tag them, that would be sad.

New House!

This is our new house, professionally guided by Katrina, who incidentally isn't moving in with us...

Kewl Typographical Goings On

Check it oot:


and this too:


G.R.L. @ M.o.M.A. from fi5e on Vimeo.

I saw a funny thing today.

It was this:

Getting Things Done: An Alternative Model Mark 1

Jimi's good friend Dave is a evangelistic exponent of 'Getting Things Done'. I happened across his workflow diagram as it was discreetly emblazoned around his office, and we got to talking about how mine might compare to his, and the relative merits or lack thereof.

Here's the popular one:












And here's what I came up with:

Inspector Tapehead

MySpace.com - Inspector Tapehead - Glasgow, UK - www.myspace.com/inspectortapehead

Hello. If you haven't heard, I'm in a new trio entitled Inspector Tapehead, headed up by Chris Croasdale of Adam Beattie's Consultants, and Jonnie Common of Down the Tiny Steps. I recommend that you go to the above myspace page for aural delight. Huw Stevens likes it, as does the entire Bulgarian music industry.

R

YouTube - Music for one apartment

via Matt of 17th letter

Bye bye Snap Anywhere

I've finally removed Snap Anywhere (those little callouts that popped up over links) from this blog because they were really pissing me off, and not being very useful with it. Hope you don't mind, I severely doubt if anyone will.

A web 2.0 mix CD

dBass are doing another mix CD swap, and here are the tracks I'm choosing:

Burial - Distant Lights
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Moon
Radiohead - Faust Arp
Radiohead - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Trilok Gurtu - Kermansah
Chris Clark - Gob Coitus
Chris Clark - Empty The Bones Of You
CocoRosie - By Your Side
Subtle - The Long Vein Of The Law
Röyksopp - Circuit Breaker
4Hero - Hold It Down
Dirty Three - I Really Should've Gone Out Last Night
Tortoise - A Simple Way to Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work