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