Wednesday, 23rd November, 2005

Know what I hate?

I hate it (a) when I forget to turn off the heating before I go to Leeds, thus running up my gas bill and making all the plants in the house wilter, and (b) when my internet connection goes down at home when I'm over in Leeds, effectively borking all of the sites that I serve until I can get home and restart the modem. Sorry about that

BTW, the "OSX on Dell" thing was a really crappy but of geek-based humour. Out of shot, on the right, was the G4 that the Dell's monitor was plugged into. Crap eh? Sorry. It seemed funny at the time.

Know What I love?

Wine.

It's great Absolutely fucking great. So great, that you could dangle it out of a window and drop it and it would still be great. So great, that if you wrapped it up in parcel-tape and wrote "This is not great" on it, it would still be great. So great, in fact, that if you took it to the park and walked it round on a lead, people would point at it behind your back and say "Wow, that's great"

And as a plus, on top of it being so great, it gets you pissed.

Which makes it even more great, in my book.

Absolutely But I think I deserve it — I've had a hectic few days, and what with the constant niggling at the back of my head that Erin was down, I figure being drunk and suggestable is exactly the right remedy

I thought that the start of this piece was "classic" Clarkson.

Is that a veiled complimant?

Yikes

A Small String Of Interesting Events

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Quite an innocent looking picture eh? Kisa, my Second Life re-presentative, watching a viseo-screen in her my living room, with some random Dutch guy on-screen.

But no, nothing is ever so simple...

As I vaguely hinted at the other day, we had a rather cool visitor to our department last week — a guy from Amsterdam who is involved with an art-based internet-TV thingamy.

(They're called Park, BTW)

What was rather cool about it, was that we collaborated with him on curating a shot series of films from our students, and setting up a few streams of video.

But that wasn't, quite frankly, enough for me. Oh no.

Princess here, decided it would be rather fun to sit in my Second Life, yet still be able to watch my students' work. So I made a TV in my living room, and streamed their website onto it.

But that's not the really fun part. Oh no.

See, I have, naturally, been making a few friends in Second Life of late — random people with whom I share some interests. And one guy in particular — a guy who lives next door, and who is also an artist, was round visiting me the other day.

Now this guy is originally Dutch. But he lives in California now. But still, we were sat together in my living room, watching the TV, when he suddenly said...

"Hold on, is this Park?"

Turns out the guy had been watching Park since it first started, and now was here, online, watching it in the living room of an Irish artist who lived in England.

Odd yes? Still with me?

So we were chatting about how small a world it was, and stuff like that, and he asked me if I wanted to be involved in a project he was involved with.

Which is how, on Sunday night, I found myself sat in a forest of grey tress, talking to him, a guy called "Hank" from New York, and an artist from Stockholm who looked like Andy Warhol, about a collaboration funded by the Witney in NYC.

...

See, I try and explain this to people, and they just look at me with blank stares. And I guess you might just be doing exactly the same yourself.

relates you to the Bosch

Waaaaaaay over my head hon — totally incapable of getting subtle humour tonight

Whilst making a cafetiere? Yes, I think you might be right