Friday, August 28, 2009

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Dots


Dots
Originally uploaded by Spherical Roy
I did a recording for Aby on Thursday - have uploaded some photos to Flickr, plus a load of other random ones from this summer so far - turning out to be a good un!

Monday, July 20, 2009

How to attain material wealth, and more..

This is the protocol that I am increasingly using whenever I decide that I need something:

borrow it (added bonus: interacting with humanity) - friends and hirers are a wonderful thing! NB: you can't google for friends, you can google for hirers. I mean you can google for friends, but you shouldn't need to.

make it (added bonus: interacting with your brain) - google for how tos or look on instructables/makezine

get it for free
- look on freecycle/gumtree free stuff, check the streets the night before bulk uplift day

get it second hand
- look on gumtree/ebay, check the charity shops/bulletin boards

get it cheap - froogle it, or look on amazon marketplace/buy online

get it expensively
(added, debatable, bonus: interacting with the physical world) - go to an actual shop!

Obviously it depends what it is and why you want it, but it's amazing how often this can be applied to a want!

Sunday, July 19, 2009

A Fine Hour Indeed

I must say I have been enjoying Guy Garvey's Finest Hour on 6Music of late. Almost makes me think that the British implementation of digital radio has been worthwhile. No, hang on, nothing will make me think that.

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Friday, July 03, 2009

How to Think, Say, or Do Precisely the Worst Thing for Any Occasion


Brilliant paper in this week's Science (which you probably can't read unless you have a subscription) dealing with our inability to avoid the things (thoughts, actions, comments) we actively wish to avoid. Or in the words of the author:

"... the precisely counterintentional error. This is when we manage to do the worst possible thing, the blunder so outrageous that we think about it in advance and resolve not to let that happen."

I can't help but to think of certain scenarios I've experienced where this is exactly the consequence of suppression of thoughts. 'I couldn't be more embarrassed right now' said the friend who's skirt promptly fell to the ground in a room full of people. And as for the spilling red wine example, I honestly don't think I spill many liquids at all in my life, but give me a glass of red wine and a white carpet to walk over and it's almost a guarantee.

I'll leave you with an urge to read the paper and one of my favourite lines from it:

"Ironic lapses of mental control often appear when we attempt to be socially desirable, as when we try to keep our minds out of the gutter."

Wegner, Daniel, M., 2009. How to Think, Say, or Do Precisely the Worst Thing for Any Occasion. Science: Vol. 325. no. 5936, pp. 48 - 50 DOI: 10.1126/science.1167346

Monday, June 15, 2009

Guardian Bike Blog

Not sure what happened to Two wheels but here's a new guardian bike blog to add to the ol' blogroll

Friday, May 29, 2009

Spring in the Rockies


Mount Indefatigable
Originally uploaded by ofreflection

Dumped some photos over at flickr from some great camping/hiking last weekend. We headed out to Kananaskis for Sean's birthday and our first summer outing to the mountains for the year. Camping in the shoulder season can always be interesting given the amount of snow still on the ground, but thankfully we're a little older and wiser and have some pretty kick-ass camping pads to take the edge of the chill. The best part of the weekend though was the amount of wildlife we saw. Sadly not many photos of said encounters due to general flightiness of the wildlife or the scarediness of the photo-takers... Ignoring the marmots/ground squirrels, jays, deer, elk and sheep, because, well, they're just not that interesting, we had a very near encounter with a Grizzly, what we probably think was a Moose and a not so near miss with a Black bear. All of which neither of us have ever seen in our 2.5 years here so far. The Grizzly was spotted about 50m up the ridge from us, before disappearing into the woods. Seems he didn't want to see us either. We made a hellova noise clasped our bear spray and pushed on when we thought he'd gone, but not 100m further on strange noises were emanating from the trees beside us. At this point, we're almost literally in between a rock and a hard place, the rock being the cliff off to our right and the hard place the noises from the trees to our left. With the assistance of Sean's penchant for photographing shit (literally) and a handy 'identifying shit' card in the campsite we came to the conclusion that we'd had a near miss with a Moose. A Moose is probably more dangerous than a Grizzly and so the hike was aborted. Grizzly plus Moose was enough for one hike. We moved off and did another hike to a frozen lake where we were all jubilant that the snow was still on the ground and thus we could see any prints - there were none. Jo reported the bear sighting and was then told that not long after we'd seen the Grizzly it (assuming it was the same one is probably fair) had popped out of the woods on some unsuspecting fishermen below the ridge we'd been hiking. Apparently they weren't too happy we'd scared it off the mountain... To top the weekend off, the next day we saw a Black Bear running across the ice on the half-frozen lake we were lazing around by. This time we were much more pleased to see the bear, we had about 300m of open water between us and a car parked not 10m behind us. Even in my decrepit state i figured i could make that 10m before he swam his 300 but thankfully we didn't have to race. Instead we watched from afar and played on the beach. Good times. You should come visit.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Tapehead on tour

Not really, but we went to Manchester and Jonnie, though rather irritatingly at the time, beautifully documented the whole affair in this handy video, which contains one rude gesture, one reference to a dog's penis and much hilarity.

Friday, May 15, 2009

Anyone for pies?

Mr. Kipling has posted a fine set of his early mixes, before he got into all this techno rubbish..

http://trombonesintechno.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/mr-kipling-selection-pack/

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Skye


IMG_4682
Originally uploaded by Spherical Roy
Images from my weekend in Skye with Naeeda, Nyrika, David and Shiraz are up at Flickr.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Get her George!

This from Sloggee, Gilligan:

have you seen this? a further response to monbiot's feud with blears as mentioned on the slog -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/video/2009/apr/25/monbiot-meets-hazel-blears

Friday, April 17, 2009

Hindi Indie



Just watched Tinselworm and thought this bit would interest some of the slog readers. The rest of the dvd is pretty good too...

Kite flying the Neel


Image014
Originally uploaded by Spherical Roy
Have posted some pics from my Easter weekend in the St. Annes set.

Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Colourblind, moi?



Yes, this *is* how my co-writer and I see the world. Its terrible, give us cake.

via Mr. Kipling.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

dBass upgrade

Wow. I just spent much of the day re-writing dBass' website for Blogger. Do let me know what you think of it, it still needs some tweaks but I'm done for the day!

The full joke, courtesy of the Adam & Joe Show Radiogram

After both amusing and annoying myself all week with merely a punchline, I had to go back to check the setup for that joke:

What do you call a Scottish cow sitting down?

A-knee-lin'-ox
(ie. Annie Lennox)

Ludacrous.

If any of your are not familiar with the Big British Castle's Adam and Joe Show Radiogram, you should be, it's excellent. Thankfully there's always listen again, or the podcast which features all the best chat and some extra chat.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Simply Gorgeous

Timelapsed Tilt and Shift videos from Keith Loutit, via Why That's Delightful (Graham Linehan's blog).

This is indeed delightful:


Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

I wonder if Linehan loves it because it reminds him of the Big Train DVD menu design!

Look out for the NYK reference in the above video! Nice soundtrack too - from one Megan Washington.

Friday, March 06, 2009

Some are doing something at least



Originally uploaded by selimski
Selimski covering a recent memorial event in London..

Canadians love rocks

I thought this might be relevant to the readership..

Friday, February 13, 2009

Democracy?

I meant to put a link up to this article by George Monbiot a week or so ago, it being an interesting comment on political disenfranchisement and on the UK learning from the recent transformation of American politics. I forgot about the article but have now posted it as it has since turned into a reply from Hazel Blears and a second absolutley scathing reply from Mr Monbiot. If you've got 10 minutes i sincerely urge you to read each article.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Photo dump

Flickr is being flaky and not letting me imbed a photo post so here are some links to:

Photos from Inspector Tapehead's recent Limbo gig in Edinburger they are good.

Suzy G's photos from our trip into the hills on Saturday it was snowy.

My photos from recording at Garmelow manor a couple of weeks back it was fun.

I've been pretty lucky with doing fun stuff recently, it's true. Its been hard work too though.

Friday, February 06, 2009

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Sheddy

I just spent the entire weekend at the Shearer/Ling Cottage homestead in Norfolk, much of which was spent helping to put a roof shaped thing on Neel's 'shed' - photies here:
http://tinyurl.com/sheddy

It was great fun all round, thank you chaps.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Twits

Lots of people have asked for news of the Roald Dahl party that Suzfergilly hosted. Gilly has the evidence on her flickr in this set, check em oot.

Monday, December 08, 2008

Qoral Reef shameless punting

It occurred to me tonight that I might have failed to tell anyone that dBass released a single back in August. Still, better late than never:




Qoral Reef single available now on Collective. Buy the limited edition vinyl or download digitally at onthejukebox.com, on iTunes or on Amazon
"a platter of off-kilter, late-night soul with a jazzy garnish on top." The List

Saturday, December 06, 2008

Bangladeshi Brickie



via El Chimpadour!

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Manufacture @ The Fridge Gallery

This Sat 22nd Nov from 7pm - all welcome!

Southside Studios, 17 Westmoreland St, Glasgow, G42 8LL

Friday, November 14, 2008

Vroom!


Vroom!
Originally uploaded by dr_colossus★
A new candidate for the Ol' Blogroll:

Suzy G's sister's boyfriend Ollie's Flickr Stream will now be getting my newsreader's attention. And thus ocasionally mine.

Friday, October 24, 2008

O Canada!

The Dawg has kindly posted some photos from my recent visit to him and the J dawg in Canada. Very shrewd as I take it my counterpart detected the pitiful shitness of my Virgin Media ADSL internet (that's right - I said it!) through my inability to upload anything, a full month later! It was great by the way.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Monday, October 06, 2008

Some decidedly British politics

Well, I'm back. And what nicer to return to than 'Just a Minute' on the wireless and another bit of spot on satire from Great Aunt Henrietta:

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson has shocked political pundits by pronouncing himself “Queen of London” and sacking the Labour Government – a move described by Johnson himself as “constitutionally bold”. He then went on to establish an “Interim Protectorate”, which will handle the day-to-day running of the country “until the democratic process delivers a nice Conservative government.”

Friday, August 22, 2008

Folk Fest '08

Some music we liked form this year's Folk Fest, in no particular order:

Carolina Chocolate Drops From the website: "The Carolina Chocolate Drops are a group of young African-American stringband musicians that have come to together to play the rich tradition of fiddle and banjo music in Carolinas piedmont." And the jugs and the bones, cool.

No Luck Club "An instrumental Hip Hop Band" from Vancouver, have been described as a mix of RJD2, Kid Koala, DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist, not bad then.

The Weakerthans A Canadian Indie-pop outfit...

Kara Keith Alternative Singer songwriter

Woodpigeon My new favourite Calgary band. Think Broken Social Scene.

Andrew Bird Brilliant experimental, looping music, swhirly gramaphones included!

Basia Bulat Folk n' roll singer songwriter.

Socalled Crazy, Hip Hop indy experimental stuff.

Beija Flor Calgarian indy rock outfit

Jayme Stone and Mansa Sissoko Jazz/Bluegrass Banjo Virtuoso with an African twist (kora and storytelling)

Going to the end of the line

A great multimedia feature of the New York City subway

Monday, August 18, 2008

Ling Fest 08 - a set on Flickr

Ling Fest 08 - a set on Flickr

The first photos from the first and possibly last Ling Fest are up!

Applied Math | Futility Closet

Applied Math | Futility Closet

A nice mathematical co-inkidink.

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Extreme climbing


Extreme climbing
Originally uploaded by Spherical Roy
Brand new photos up at Roy's Flickr! This one's from the weekend in Ardnamurchan, when Gaz showed off his climbing prowess.

Friday, August 08, 2008

The Tech Horn

I'd like to draw your attention to The Tech Horn, Chris Croasdale's brother Richard's blog. Of late I have been enjoying its Simcity2000esque journalistic reportage on technology/culture/whimsy with much gusto.

Thursday, August 07, 2008

LIFE IS NOT A JOURNEY TO THE GRAVE WITH THE

INTENTION OF ARRIVING SAFELY IN A PRETTY AND

WELL PRESERVED BODY, BUT RATHER TO SKID IN

SIDEWAYS, THOROUGHLY USED, TOTALLY WORN OUT

AND LOUDLY PROCLAIMING

"WOW WHAT A RIDE"

Anon.

Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Save words!

Its a long shot, but I'm warmed by the invitation I received to sign a petition on the subject of typography.

From the intriguing Type Museum.

Monday, June 23, 2008

Wii Hack

350

There seem to be endless campaigns for climate change and the environment, (we, the climate project, the big ask etc etc) but I like the simplicity of this one. And something about using numerals and sign language to reach as many people as possible is neat. How the heck we get to 350 is another question...

Monday, June 16, 2008

TubeJP: London Tube Map & Journey Planner

TubeJP: London Tube Map & Journey Planner

This is a very handy site. If you're in London. Would be handier if it was portable too!

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Big Ideas (don't get any)

If this hasn't got round to you yet, it will. I mean other than now.

Surely has got to be the star of this year's degree show, which incidentally starts this Thursday for a week.


Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.

James says:

I'm a student graduating from the Glasgow School of Art's visual communication course in a few days. This is my final project.

Radiohead held an online contest to remix "Nude" from their album - "In Rainbows" This was quite a difficult task for everybody that entered, as Nude is in 6/8 timing, and 63bpm. Most music that's played in clubs is around 120bpm and usually 4/4 timing. It's pretty difficult to seamlessly mix a waltz beat into a DJ set.

This resulted in lots of generic entries consisting of a typical 4/4 beat, but with arbitrary clips from "Nude" thrown in so that they qualified for the contest.

Thom Yorke joked at the ridiculousness of it in an interview for NPR radio, hinting that they set the competition to find out how people would approach such a challenging task.

I decided to take the piss a bit, as the contest seemed to be in that spirit.

Based on the lyric (and alternate title) "Big Ideas: Don't get any" I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they're trying their best to do something that they're not exactly designed to do, and not quite getting there.

It doesn't sound great, as it's not supposed to.

I missed the contest deadline, so I'm offering it here for you to enjoy.

Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Guitars (rhythm & lead)
Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums
HP Scanjet 3c - Bass Guitar
Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX


Quick off the mark as ever, Creative Review have already interviewed Houston, read it here.

Monday, June 09, 2008

Mashup!

Here's a rather fun mashup mix from DJ Food, feat. excerpts of Paul Morley reading from his book on the history of sound manipulation, Words & Music. Its messed up.

Thank you Jonnie!

via the supreme ubu.com [<-tracklist here]

I knew you'd like that Radiohead/brubeck mashup Dave!

Sunday, June 01, 2008

40 storeys bad, 20 storeys good




I find this site FASCINATING. Top picture: The future of Gibson St.

And for all your insider demolition news, this thread seems to be the one to follow - watch out, its three years long! Bottom picture: The past of the Gorbals, to be repeated later this morning.

Friday, May 30, 2008

Almost genius: Radiohead vs Dave Brubeck - Five Step

strange things

My mate Tom bought a whole load of someone else's photos off ebay. which I thought was pretty weird, but then I found these:

http://tinyurl.com/4lbyr4
http://tinyurl.com/436tqx
http://tinyurl.com/4aeqc2

Friday, May 23, 2008

Friends of Earth charter freakin' huowge plane

Friends of Earth - The Big Ask

I do like the FOE's recentest online campaign.

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Glass harmonica

Glass harmonica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

These are cool, but may cause insanity.

Friday, May 09, 2008

Genius.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

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!

Friday, April 18, 2008

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

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

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

Sunday, April 13, 2008

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.

Monday, April 07, 2008

voice in smoke

entschwindet und vergeht: Ghost Voices

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

Sunday, April 06, 2008

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.

Thursday, April 03, 2008

I want this, but its sold out.

The Designing Automata Kit, Sold Out £44.50

and I especially would like one of these ones!

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

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.

Friday, March 28, 2008

New House!



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

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Kewl Typographical Goings On

Check it oot:


and this too:


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

Sunday, March 16, 2008

I saw a funny thing today.


It was this:

Monday, March 10, 2008

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:

Sunday, March 09, 2008

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

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

YouTube - Music for one apartment



via Matt of 17th letter

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

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

Sunday, March 02, 2008

the forgotten sound mirrors


deputydog | the forgotten sound mirrors

Some Animations

I made some animations out of my pictures from India, using my new camera's capacity to take many pictures in quick succession:

This is one of my mum.

This is one of my cousin Yael.

This is one of my nephew enjoying his lunch.

This is one of his parents rocking him to sleep.

This is one of Neel getting a face massage.

This is one of all my family at new year.

This is one of everyone at various points over Christmas, taken from the same vantage point each time.

This is one of a spinning top.

This is one of a game of scrabble, this time done using the timelapse function, which resulted in me only being able to compress it into a .wmv, not an .avi as for the other animations.

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Lemon Drizzle cake, by Mark - 99ACOAC

Sweet, certainly. also hard and eggy however, diminuitive in size. Not good, I'm afraid. But hey, they can only improve from here, Mark.

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Dave's photography site


Yo.

Some of my photos are featured on Dave Green's spanking new photography site, Bezkonca. Check it oot, he's done a great job.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

India Dec 07 - Jan 08


Uncle Vijay
Originally uploaded by Spherical Roy
I have uploaded my photos from my Christmas hols, including Freyan and Cyrille's wedding.

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

A list of soul songs

that we may or may not be doing at Rio on the 22nd Feb

Musical goodness

Can't remeber if I've posted either of these before. Check em oot.

Dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip - Letter from God to Man

Hard and Phirm - Rodeohead

Friday, January 18, 2008

Aquaduct

A very neat idea...

Monday, January 14, 2008

Ayla's birthday cake by Kasbah, Delhi: 3ACAOC

A very chilled affair, straight forward chocolate sponge with one layer of chocolate filling and chocolate icing, so not very imaginative either. Competent, tasty, heavy texture. It was iced with Ayla's name at very short notice however, which is worth something.

Saturday, December 15, 2007

I've been published!

Well sort of - in a very roundabout, lazy way. Schmap.com is a tourism site with info about Glasgow that they cull from various commons repositories, hence tehy came across my Flickr photos. Its nice to get some recognition!

Sunday, December 02, 2007

Guinness Cake by Dave Green, 1ACAOC

I am hearby restarting the cake reportt in blog form, having been inspired by Dave's cakular offerings last night. We shall have a strict protocol to any cake report, that is:

Title must begin with the official cake title, followed by attribution to the cake author, whether it be man or corporation. Following a comma the cake rating will be displayed according to the official cake rating scale as we pioneered in NYK, where we shall use the Chocolate And Orange Cake from Peckhams as our benchmark against all other cakes are judged. Hence the use of the acronyms ACAOC (after chocolate and orange cake) and BCAOC (before chocolate and orange cake). These are to be used as if one were reading the cake chart as a list, BCAOC signifying a cake that is better than chocolate and orange cake and ACAOC signifying one that is less good. The number signifier preceding said acronym relates to what degree the cake in question is better or less good than the CAOC.

So, as an example Dave's Guinness Cake, which I have given a 1ACAOC is approximately 1 less good than the CAOC, so nearly as good, ie. in the chart it would be somewhere just below the CAOC. Got it? good.

The Guinness Cake was a pleasure to eat, bringing with it to the table the same wholesome quality of Guinness, combined expertly with a dense chocolate sponge quality. In fact quality is the one word that sprang to mind with this cake, which was topped with a luxurious cream cheese based topping - something that were I told it before, I would surely have baulked at, however it weass a resounding success and perfect compliment both in tazste and texture to the cake. The one area where I think there may be room for improvement, and hence why it has to come after the CAOC is in the main cake texture - just a little to homogenous in comparison, I think with the addition of some variation in the form of chocolate chips or something, maybe pork scratchings (on the alehouse theme), it could triumph. But an excellent offering and it did inspire me to file the first cake report in about 3 years, so can't be at all bad.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

First Day Falls

Attempting to film Joel and snowboard at the same time. I knew I couldn't multitask...

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Hecq

Ayla pointed me in the direction of Hecq who has an uber-cool myspace here. Thanks for that Ayla!

Friday, November 02, 2007

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Flight of the Conchords

That's why they call them Business Socks.

dBass gig this Friday


dBass jazz bar flyer nov07.jpg (JPEG Image, 756x560 pixels)

Monday, October 29, 2007

YouTube - Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip - Letter from God

YouTube - Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip - Letter from God
A crackin' song, (to be expected from the sac v pip combo) with excellent choice of beats.

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

In Rainbows


If you haven't already done so, you should probably go here - but here's the killer question: how much is it worth?

Monday, October 01, 2007

But where's the recorder?

I was listening to The Decemberists' song The Crane Wife part 1 and I couldnt help but notice the similarity to a certain West End denizen's song about a boy with an arab strap...

Uncanny.

entschwindet und vergeht.

entschwindet und vergeht.: May 2007

I have discoveered that Murphy (Dougie) has a blog. It even shows some of his architecturally concerned meanderings. And he has also been doing some performance. Excellent stuff.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Screenwiped

How have we in this flat only just discovered Charlie Brooker's Screenwipes?

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Bench


Bench
Originally uploaded by Spherical Roy
Some new pictures on Flickr, from a couple of trips.

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Avast photos from Gilly


tattooing
Originally uploaded by gillyroche
Gilly has put up some photos from Friday night's shenanigans, which also at the last minute featured Mr. Harry Wilson AKA H-Bomb. which was nice. there are also some pictures of me on a tiny bike.

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Weird Bikes, episode III

Thursday, September 06, 2007

Avast!

Avast!

Add to My Profile | More Videos

Do come along if you can - Friday 14th Septemeber at the Captain's Rest, featuring Wake the President, Atoms for Peace and Tiago Andrade.

In celebration of Mark's borthday, Gilly coming back temporarily and mourning Lu going away temporarily.

Monday, September 03, 2007

SpokePOV, Freddie Grubb & Spherical in racing action



Originally uploaded by selimski
a whole load of great photos by selimski in this set.