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T-Shirt Of The Week #010: THE CIGARETTE OF VICTORY

TOTW is basically a joke that Ariana and I pull each week in our joint guise as the International Electrophonic Unit. Basically, we take some of the stupider things I've said on Twitter and elsewhere, often in a state of extreme alcoholic refreshment or severe sleep deprivation, and put them on a t-shirt. Ariana set up a Cafe Press store (because this is a joke and engaging with a serious maker of t-shirts would be less funny to us), and… well, once a week, here we are.

Through this website...

Emma Vieceli, Kelly Sue DeConnick On Whitechapel This Week

This week on my message board, writer Kelly Sue DeConnick and writer/artist/octopoid-multitasker Emma Vieceli will be answering questions and talking about their work in five-day residencies. Em writes, draws, teaches, publishes and organises, and Kel's probably the only person I know who's written more than eleven thousand pages of dialogue and still had a more interesting life than most of us.

Come and meet them.

* The Kelly Sue DeConnick Residency

* The Emma Vieceli Residency

Get Off The Fucking Phone

Because I have to sit down in my office and cough my lungs out.

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Invade My Privacy

There is much wrong with this site. Their wrong may amuse you.

Links for 2010-01-23

Ghost Bikes | ghost bikes
"Ghost Bikes are small and somber memorials for bicyclists who are killed or hit on the street. A bicycle is painted all white and locked to a street sign near the crash site, accompanied by a small plaque."
(tags:culture )

notebook 24jan10

* experimental/avant-garde/art/scene/movement newspapers/broadsides/freesheets/one-sheets – often hyperlocal due to distribution issues (stuffing & sending envelopes is a non-trivial pain in the arse), sometimes hyperlocal by design –

– if you're giving them away, or charging a token amount for the pleasure/privilege of holding the print object and thereby paying the print bill —

– surely a printer-ready ghost of that object could live on archive.org under a CC license that preserves your...

A Small Test

This is me testing a new mobile posting solution. It's unlikely to work well when drunk, luckily for you.

Links for 2010-01-22

Modern Love | A record label – Demdike Stare mix
"A very special hour-long mix from Demdike Stare available to download here for the time being?" Demdike Stare's debut album last year was a lot of fun.
(tags:music mp3 mix )Icoeye: designer, who loves to make icons (pop-out(?) bookmarks)
"I wonder that it would be great if we can use dust jackets and bookmarks together to create a unique image of a paper book. This idea can help to expand book?s space"
(tags:book design )Cult murder-extortion...

notebook 23jan10

Alexander McQueen, Autumn 2010 collection:

Ann Demeulemeester, Spring 2010 collection:

It's the faces.

Both images from Fashionphilos

Station Ident: Southend Weekend Television

When I was a kid, you see (and when everything in my world was the colour of the above photo), weekends meant the usual ITV station, Thames, segued to London Weekend Television. Which, when you were a kid in a country that only had three television channels, was kind of a big deal. Also, it meant regular morning broadcasting. Which, if you're of my generation, meant Sally James in thighboots.

Anyway. Here I am. All kinds of things swimming through my head today, and I'm waiting for one o...