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This is my personal blog and in no way represents anything in particular, especially not my views or the views of others including Made by Many. It amounts to pretty much nothing - a trifle, a folly, a stream of idiotic consciousness, mostly in images because they're quicker to do.
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Twins of the Sea →
Oysters are an aquired taste. Some people like pouring living, wriggling blobs of aquatic snot down their throats…other people are me! Then again, I actively seek out and consume…
Are you as tired as I am of these people who whinge on about the Web being too big and free and open and rich for their fragile little brains to cope with?
After centuries millenia of restricted access to knowledge being something every hipster should be heard moaning about, it’s now suddenly cool to complain that there’s just ‘too much information‘ out there and that you can’t cope. Yeah man, it’s just too heavy. It’s like you could spend all day every day online, but you still can’t take it all in and it’s completely ruining your life, and making you feel worthless.
To be fair, it’s the same type of people now complaining that there’s just too much knowledge who always tell you – unprompted – about the the unearthly hour they got up as a way of asserting their moral superiority over anyone who got up at a more sensible time. They’re the same people who never miss an opportunity to tell you how many days they’ve had without any sleep because they are SOOO busy, and how little they’ve eaten… ever. Now, the Web offers these idiots a new opportunity to demonstrate self-worth – through another melodramatic and yet pointless piece of self-denial. But it’s better than that, the Web also provides a massive new audience of gullible fools people to bore on to.
I had to check to see if this article from the NY Times website was some sort of hoax – it’s called “Stop Your Search Engines” (headline writer possibly suffering from Continual Partial Attention disorder). In it, they describe an Apple Desktop App called Freedom - created for people who feel the need for a “strategy” to help them deal with the temptation of the modern world’s super-abundance of knowledge.
It works like this.
I can’t believe anyone wasted any valuable moments of their lives programming Freedom. Your modem and your system preferences will both do this. You do not need an App. And there is also this button on all computers that just turns them off. If you that’s not good enough for you but you live inside the M25, then why not DM and I’ll come round your house with a baseball bat to smash your equipment up.
I call this programme of self-realisation ‘Total Freedom’ and it costs £50 a pop. Drop me a line.
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Ode to the Odd →
In response to Anya’s latest blog on an “intriguing and unusual exhibition to visit” in London, New York has some “art in odd places” to visit this weekend too. Exploring the “odd,…
On the Outsider →
As a philosophy student I sat through many an earnest debate on ‘the nature of art’, and outsider art was always central to the argument. Were the daubings of a chimpanzee art? A visually…
CMJ Music Marathon Begins Today! →
The legendary CMJ Music Marathon has begun here in New York City, which, according to the official website, is the “largest and longest-running music industry event of its kind,” bringing…
Get Outta Town →
While this site is focused on twinning the ins of London and New York, as any urbanite knows, to keep up one’s city momentum going, it is important to take jaunts outta town. Especially as the…
Conkers! →
It’s officially autumn here in the UK. Even if you didn’t read my earlier post where I huffed on about excessive air conditioning, a glance out the window at the golden flailing treetops (or peek…
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