Month: August 2014
Everything Wrong With “The Golden Age Of Quality TV” In One Quote
(August 31, 2014)From the Mad Men show-runner. Before The Sopranos, when someone said, Make it deeper, I didn’t know what they meant. Or really, I knew in my gut—but I also knew that it was the one thing that crossed my mind that I wasn’t going to do. To have Peggy come into Don’s office after he’s … Continue reading Everything Wrong With “The Golden Age Of Quality TV” In One Quote
Pollution
(August 25, 2014)Emacs DOM Traversal
(August 24, 2014)I’ve been doing a bit of web scraping with Emacs lately, and I haven’t been totally satisfied with how my dom.el library worked. But on Friday I was fiddling around with some jQuery stuff, and I noticed how handy it was that jQuery functions that dealt with a single node (like .attr()) could be fed … Continue reading Emacs DOM Traversal
It’ll End In Tears
(August 14, 2014)I finally finished Facing the Other Way by Martin Aston. It’s tells the story of the record label 4AD, and it’s really good. I would normally have gulped it all down in a couple of sittings, but I had to listen to all the music 4AD released (sequentially) at the same time? Right? And that … Continue reading It’ll End In Tears
Couture: Redux
(August 4, 2014)Screen printing is lots of fun, but I’m getting bored with it now. And having the floors covered with equipment and brown paper gets old after a month. So I’m calling it quits for now. I’d like to have said that I was really good a printing now, but I’m not. My results are very … Continue reading Couture: Redux
Couture: No Coordination
(August 3, 2014)For my final (I think) prints, I’ve selected a couple of Charles Burns drawings. I wanted to experiment with multi-coloured, but “non-registered” prints. That is, prints that don’t require sub-millimeter precision: Instead I just mask off areas with tape and print the same screen several times. That means that I have to wash and dry … Continue reading Couture: No Coordination