Blogs have again turned up interesting and relevant results for me!

Caiti broke a Carling tap at work tonight, on searching BlogEd.co.uk brought solace in a similar incident!

Thanks :o)

I’m a big fan of interfacing different bits of hardware and software together, I’ve come across two today. Using the iPhone to control Max/Msp and also a thing called AudioCubes. This uses Max/Msp as well, but is available as a “boxed” product, and manages to control Ableton Live (or any other MIDI enabled software) using these weird coloured cubes. Strange, but interesting I guess.

This is a video of the iPhone thing (from createdigitalmotion.com), to see the demo of the AudioCubes go to its website.

Have a balloon inflate, grow, and pop by hits on a website…. brilliant!

To elaborate; each time somebody viewed the artists blog on a particular day a mechanism inflated a balloon a tiny amount. By the end of the day the balloon popped due to viral spreading of the message. Love it.

I just saw a post on Pinktentacle.com about making crop circle-esque images in rice paddys, in Japan.

Its really cool. Everyone should do it, on different levels. Farmers with fields, architects and town planers with buildings, streets and parks, “ordinary people” with their houses, gardens, cars and selves.

World Collage.

How does one start a thing like that?

On the subject of public art, I stumbled across a blog entry about attempts to cut the public art funding in Florida. Hear, hear to the writer I say!

Interesting facts about Newspaper Circulation from around the world on this Newspaper Index blog.

“Even the foreman of the jury that sent me down has asked for a painting”

John Myatt talking about his ‘success’ since leaving prison for forgery. Sounds like a good film, too.

Read the story here.

As part of the process I’m going through to install WordPress on this website, I’ve now become familiar with what a track back is.

Really cool principle, I like it. Web2.0 Go! (or something)

a system in a blog whereby a related item on another site appends information from its first paragraph to the bottom of the text of the original item. Some observers cite trackback as manifestation of the interactive Internet.

From ict.tippinst.ie.

I just read a nice comparison article, between blogger.com and WordPress.com – free blog hosts. Succinct and useful!

“Maybe try it without the crown? Less dressy, because the garter robe is so extraordinary?” suggested the photographer.”Less dressy? What do you think this is?” exclaimed a clearly disgruntled monarch.

The BBC has since apologised.

Fun & original idea (from Andy Sykes), similarities with photobombing.

See here; http://tinyurl.com/39mann or here.

An old flash game, but still great fun, at times.