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Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:15:47 +0000

readjust your bookmarks: out with dotmac, in with the new. still some things to be fiddled with behind the scenes, but more importantly there’s a world of content coming in the project section - this years big project - and the whole blog from here recreated and crosslinked. read onto to christmas, and in the coming weeks i’ll make it through to being up-to-date.

i love now being able to have things like: http://tobyz.net/tobyzstuff/tags/project/photo or http://tobyz.net/tobyzstuff/tags/technology/quartz-composer

adjust your bookmarks: full site feed - http://tobyz.net/tobyzstuff/rss.xml

[ chrysalis ]

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:48:32 +0000

i’ve been in a funk of cold, this blog got stuck on needing to write seriously about the one dot zero live cinema night, and now its christmas eve.

all has not been still though: i’ve been working my way out of the funk, and its involved going through the whole archive of posts here. less digital anvil, more chrysalis. so by the end of this year, i should have seen my life of the past two pass in front of my eyes, and will be starting 2009 with this site transformed into the kind of thing i’ve always wanted it to be: this was “the quick knock-off job” after all.

so merry christmas, a happy new year, a good drink and warm conversation. to those i missed in the funk of cold let it be january, and to those further flung who knows where the coming year might see us...

ps. goodbye iWeb, goodbye snowboarder-stock-apple-photo

frequency and volume

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:35:39 +0000

mike recommended popping by this exhibition on the way home. glad i did: critics say playful and profound, i say yep nice idea but totally transformed in its execution. best bit of public space interaction i’ve seen in ages (and thats including just having been to a festival with that by-line...!).
http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=7879

obligatory autumn shot

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:48:26 +0000

walking out the house it seemed obligatory go back for the camera: the tree outside the window was shining, the air was clear, sky blue... it was less about trying for a good photo and more just the knowledge that the leaves weren’t going to be there for long.

your favourite dead person

Sat, 8 Nov 2008 22:46:50 +0000

...good theme for a party, unit-b1.

imageradio » re-act

Tue, 4 Nov 2008 10:16:25 +0000

not part of imageradio, but across the road in the now dwarfed original philips factory, was the re-ACT exhibition, combining light and interactivity. some beauty, like swarm pictured, but generally really disappointing interactivity - most of them were barely reactive. makes you wonder why you didn’t propose something.
...and the juvenile still finds “kunstlicht in de kunst” funny.

imageradio » mamabart

Tue, 4 Nov 2008 10:16:11 +0000

so this lady is watching a film as if it were through her own eyes, and right now her hand is being slobbered all over by a dog. except that its obviously not, it is mamabert is mimicking that with a hand puppet. truly memorable, truly live and a performance, and such an obvious idea: why isn’t everybody doing this, its “the feelies” for real.

imageradio » optical machines

Tue, 4 Nov 2008 10:15:56 +0000

the last ‘live cinema’ event, this was a complete surprise. looking at the little light-stage, i was charmed but could only imagine a few minutes of interest in whatever shadows it could produce. how wrong: a complete tour-de-force, taking a certain aesthetic and exploring it fully and brilliantly. www.opticalmachines.nl

imageradio » prototope

Tue, 4 Nov 2008 10:15:03 +0000

kinda kitch, but so well done.

imageradio » the status project

Tue, 4 Nov 2008 10:14:23 +0000

totally impressive: the status project. if anyone talks about sticking it to “the man”, well this is “the system”, mapped by heath bunting.