Bed and Lock-in
Insult to injury- the Home Office is charging people for the time they spent in prison if it turns out they were wrongly convicted. This is wrong in so many ways I can’t even begin to express the stupidity of it.
Daily archives: March 15, 2004
My Goodness
The bubbles in Guinness, at least, the ones at the edges, really do flow downwards.
Is there a Doctor in the house?
Of course, now we’ve discovered a Tenth Planet it’s only a matter of time before the Cybermen pay us a visit.
But I wouldn't want to paint it
A large (2k by 2k pixels) image of the Earth from space. Of course, it’s America centric, but you can’t have everything.
Tourettes
Channel 4 are running those funky ads with snippets from the stars of their many programmes on life, how they’d like to be remembered etc. They also asked everyone for their favourite swear words. Turn the volume up, but make sure no-one who’s easily offended is in earshot.
Eco-Flick
The Day After Tomorrow claims to be a carbon neutral blockbuster. Could it also mobilise votes against Bush.
What is a Print?
MOMA explains printmaking with a Flash animation.
Street Jewellery
The coursework I’m doing today doesn’t lend itself to images I can post. So here’s a site I’ll be using to research a personal project- Street Jewellery– all about enamal and other advertising signs from the late nineteenth to mid twentieth century. I’m thinking of making copies or pastiches of them to be sold as files to railway modellers who can print them onto card or mailing labels to put up on their layouts.
More Planets
Where is the model Solar System going to put Sedna?
Planets
I found a collection of model solar systems in the States last August (though I erroneously labelled it a model of the universe) and wondered about setting one up in Britain. Somebody was listening to me, and now there’s to be a scale solar system with the sun based at Jodrell Bank.
And because of distances involved, many of the models will be in Greater Manchester. Mercury will be in Chelford, Venus in Alderley Edge, Earth in Macclesfield and Mars in Northwich. The Ceres asteroid will be in Chapel-en-le-Frith and Gaspra at William Hulme Grammar School in Hulme, Manchester.