Yearly Archives: 2005
Patents
With most big companies currently patenting everything from the colour Purple to story lines and ofcourse software we are generally experiencing the notion that companies can own a concept or idea and thus restrict future development (or at least make a large amount of money from it). But I have been thinking how this might [...]
The big smoke (cloud of death)
Massive explosions hit fuel depot, near St Albans at 6am…..and I think the edge of the cloud of noxious fumes is just above us….oh dear. Here’s a link to a movie (12mb) or a slightly smaller version (928k) Click on the images to see larger versions
Space Cadets
From the Channel 4 Space Cadets website: Channel 4 is blasting a group of adventurers, ordinary members of the public, off into space to spend five days orbiting the earth. It’s thrilling, it’s exciting, and it’s totally bogus. Hmm, ordinary members of the public….such as Ryan McBride Whilst watching the prog the other night my [...]
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Stereotyping
One aspect of the classical view of stereotypes is the idea that social stereotypes exaggerate and homogenise traits held to be characteristic of particular categories and serve as blanket generalisations for all individuals assigned to such categories. The images and notions connected with them are then consensually shared in the interests of the social group [...]
So scary
Little scary Scottish children….shiver, never has tartan been so disturbing
Attack of the 6 foot Chickens
Finally got round to scanning some of my artwork I produced whilst on a Fine Art degree. Ah…can’t quite remember the reasoning behind much of the work now. But it had something to do with the paradox of marketing (and thus beatifying) something inherently ugly (i.e. frozen chicken), I think it was supposed to be [...]
Structuralism
The basic claim of the structuralist theorists was that a very wide range (perhaps all) of human activity, from economic interaction to literature, could be understood as being coded like language, bound by rules analogous to grammar and syntax….Its major weakness was its inability to provide any satisfactory theoretical account of historical or other development, [...]