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I have no idea how long this one will last. Some updates take seconds others take ages, maybe like half an hour. I had some stuff to do so I did that, but now I’m back, sat here looking at another loading screen. I wanted to install CS6, but before I could, I had to…

There is 3.5% left of a download (Adobe CS6 Master Collection) I will write until it is at 100%. Let me explain why. I have been waiting for a long time for this to download, it’s in its final stages. If I were to sit and watch it, it would go on forever, but as…

I have been making new work for an exhibition in Nottingham. Continuing the conversation (I am having with my self) below, I have been researching massive online image archives so I can produce massive image sequences. There are more and more on the web, as institutions put their collections online and into the ‘public domain’[1].…

The orginal intention of the thesis was very wooly, I recognised this before I had even sent it off. I was somehow interested in how working with objects in the world could disrupt the established tempo of neo liberalism. I was interested in being bored and repetitive tasks.[1] The initial interest came from science fiction,…

I’ve been working on some new video clips, thinking about the idea of never being able to repeat the same physical movement twice, . It struck me that a big difference between the physical and digital worlds is that movement in the physical world cannot be looped perfectly, while digital movement can – seamlessly. In…

I’m excited to read the intro of Bergson and the Metaphysics of Media by Stephen Crocker. It gives as good a short description of Bergson’s ideas as I have read anywhere and ties in some interesting names – particularly Marshall McLuhan, Michel Serres and Walter Benjamin (who I know criticised Bergson’s romanticism). It really puts…

http://mashable.com/2014/11/21/event-planning-technology/

Research into time management and creative production has led me to this: Duration (n): late 14c., from Old French duration, from Medieval Latin durationem (nominative duratio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin durare “harden”. Durable (adj): late 14c., from Old French durable (11c.), from Latin durabilis “lasting, permanent,” from durare “to last,…

Today I have watched a couple of talks by Benjamin Bratton about the stack and  how it is creating a new form of geopolitics. I as I understand it the stack is the interlinked networks, organic and inorganic, that we are all part of. I would guess that we are the end user, connected via…