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Nakamara? Naknama... Um...
Dan The Automator has a lot of work coming up apparently. Of his currently available stuff I only know Gorillaz (who are rightly The Current Big Thing), and The Handsome Boy Modelling School, who didn't quite take over the world, but should have, due to being genius incarnate. Check out what he's up to, save you cashola, and buy, buy, buy. As in literally, buy the singles, the albums, the t-shirts, the coffee mugs. Everything must go.
_ 0659_25.03.01
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Following The Bitch
If anybody from the UK follows this site, here is my hot, hot, hot tip. Popex is a stock exchange of popstars. You buy shares in the musicians, and so do other people. You stand to make money if your pop star does well in the charts, cuz then other people will buy the shares, so you can sell for a profit. Just like the real stock market.
I got the link from the hilarious Popbitch. The link above is a referral that will get me more fake money on PopEX. Just type www.popex.com if you don't wanna help me. You don't lose any money either way.
I love it! I'll be putting up tips on this website in the future, so if you do use it (and it's mainly a UK service, cuz it's mainly UK bands), be sure to check back to find out any insider info I might know...
_ 07:35 p.m._Friday, March 23, 2001
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The Poetry Page You Control
I love these things. I'm tempted to get one. One of these and a Newtons Cradle, and my home office will be complete.
_ 1803_22.03.01
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A Big Sigh
The website is Popbitch. Apparently this ultra cool mailing list based website is having problems with their server. Go along and support them.
Anyhooo... I'm not happy with myself. Because sometimes, I just disappoint myself. In a kinda funny way. Currently, I'm using a lame computer that doesn't even have all the things I need to run properly, just cuz someone I don't want to speak to is in another room. I've got nothing specific against that person, I just don't have the patience for pleasentries right about now. How harsh is that? Heheh... like I say, funny, but disappointing... heh..
_ 1700_22.03.01
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My Childhood
Wiped out, with one cruel revamp.
The humanity!
_ 1326_21.02.01
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Back In The Day, Where It All Began
When they released their first EP, I said to the person in charge of getting singles/albums for us to review on the Uni magazines, hey, get some Gorillaz, they may not be that big, but I reckon they'll have a small hit, at some point. I wasn't expecting a great deal, despite me personally liking the music (that's rarely a recipe for chart success).
Here they are now, at number 5 (down one place) in the charts. Shows what I know about anything. And they're there dispite most people having heard that awful "Radio Refix" (the word refixx having been used on more successful radio version in the past - so spoiling two good things with their crud).
Maybe I can curse Zoot Woman in the same way, cuz apparently, they're on to bigger and better things... so I'm gonna make 'em Output's "Nah, I don't see 'em making a huge dent in the charts" Of The Week!
_ 1320_21.03.01
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Not A Buff, Really
I dunno why I'm into all this fashion lark. I guess it's just another avenue of design. Not specifically up my street, but hey, all avenues must be accounted for.
So here is "Fashion UK". Another cashing in on that FCUK brand idea. As created by... well, I know the name of the guy who came up with it, anyway.
So, what I was gonna say was "Hey, that website for Full Circle was actually FullCircleUK.com. Surely that abbreviates to FCUK.com... surely that's some sort of copyright infringement, especially considering FCUK successfully prosecuted CFUK (Conservative Futures UK), proving they own those letters, in whatever order they appear."
Or somesuch... right, off to find some hardcore Spacek or Zoot Woman material. There's gotta be some out there...
_ 1315_21.03.01
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A Website From Yore
I remember these guys offa the telly. They were a startup venture on a Channel 4 prog. Well, they've relaunched it looks like, and they're still a pretty nifty investment. I still love that name...
_ 1849_20.03.01
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The Plagues. Collect All 10!
I haven't looked at it yet, but with a name like this, how can it possibly fail. In fact, it can't fail, because simply by having that name it's passed. Thanks to NowWashYourHands for the link, who have a screensave this month by the wikkied StudioAKA (who are the studio who enclose Shynola - how's that for a long chain of links?)
_ 1840_20.03.01
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Spelt With A Zed
Skitz is currently riding high on my must have list of albums, and here is a quick review backing me up. Since I haven't got the album yet to give my opinion, here's a more educated opinion
_ 1810_20.02.01
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Coming Round... Again.
Finally found the link to the new Full Circle website. And very happy about it I am too, cuz they always have a nice selection of stuff over at Full Circle, and it's not a bad website either. I especially like outfit number two... even if it is a little on the white side, it could still be pulled off without me looking like a Puff Daddy fanatic. Or some such.
_ 1747_20.03.01
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You Need Bigscreen
More fashion, just for a second (until I find that bloody Full Circle link, dagnammit). Uth. The New Jigsaw, if I remember correctly. Or should I say, created by one of the founders of Jigsaw. Ver' nice clothingstuffs. And from the looks of it, a heckofanice store. I may have to trek down to London again, and actually go down a road other than Oxford Street.
Some people just don't understand how to really cram in a big city in one shopping excursion. It's called positive discrimination. "Well, their shop in Birmingham is only average, let's go to Selfridges instead." "Ah, an FCUK or a Gap shop? Well, let's just fuck Gap for a second"... You don't have to go into every Tom Dick and Harry store you walk past y'know, head for the head heights of high priced high street fashion. You'll thank yourself in the morning.
It's pronounced "Youth" by the way. D'ya get it? It's clever, but it wooorrks...
_ 04:59 p.m._Wednesday, March 14, 2001
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Blah, Blah, Blah
All very well and good. A nice technically proficient site from a group of webdesigners based, I think, in bonny Scotlandshire, just north of London (of course).
However, if you go to The Lab and then Katana Guest Book, it may be a big download, but man that's dome clever stuff they've got going on. Drawing, in flash! Genius!
But even better (if such a thing were possible - which is clearly and easily is) is the stupendous "Come Again". And online sex simulator, with the luscious Sam Fox. For men, it's a chance to test your prowess, for women a chance to see the amount of sheer energy it takes for the opposite sex, for the kids... um... it's about trying to park a car... heheh. Classic!
_ 1629_14.03.2001
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SnaztasticFlashstick
Someone on a newsgroup I semi-subscribed to (but it's changed into a forum, semantics fans).
Very cool looking, with a smooth wrist action. Stupidly reminiscent of a Designers Republic piece for Shift, but that's you get in these heady cross polinated times. It's still superswift, and given my latest decisions on what counts as good design, it's qualifies despite it not being the most original thing I've ever seen in my entire life. Because these days, nothing strikes me as that original anymore anyway, so that's not a big problem.
Although a lot of the stuff in Process; A Tomato Project and indeed Bareback struck me as good, but... I'm not that well design versed so, again, I wouldn't know.
Any some of the work of Why Not Associates I reckon is quite new and out there...
I'll shut up now.
_ 1548_14.03.2001
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Artistic Licence
Random Event: 130301
I receive some Christian forwarded e-mail from somebody I don't know... What the heck? "God answers Knee-Mail"? What self-respecting human being (God fearing or otherwise) would actually utter those words? That's tragic. If I was God (which, luckily for you, I'm not), I wouldn't want my reputation tarnished by such pathetic attempts at getting hip wit' da kids...
And now for the link. A while back a magazine called "Opium Magazine" which had just started, sent me an e-mail asking if I would like to have some of my work featured in their magazine. I would have replied saying "sure, take what you want", but I was in the proccess of putting together my online portfolio thingy (Exponents). By the time I'd finished that, I had no more credit on my phone, and no real way of sending e-mails, so I guess I may have missed my chance. I'll send them a message saying sorry I didn't reply, but... well, one door closes, another one opens, as they say.
However, what they fail to mention is that the other door (the one that opens) may easily have opened either way, so actually, in the long term, the net gain to you is negative! Gutted.
Anyhoo, congrats to Ms. Invention 13 for getting her work featured. And more importantly braviss for doing such nice work in the first place. Chances are that'll get you further than having "Opium Mag featured me" on your CV.
_ 1524_13.03.2001
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Finally Found It...
HeyHey. I've finally found that website I was looking for. From, I believe, the people who make Creative Review, and a bunch of other creative genii, it's got loads of stuff to see and do.
Also it's got a quicktime video of Grammy Winners, which is a wikkid vid. Hopefully it'll be better quality than the Real Video version I've got...
_ 1426_12.03.2001
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It's Ker-Azy!
Random event: 080301
Walking down the road I hear someone say something. I look to the nearby windows of a student halls kitchen, and then to see if there are any other windows open though which the sound may have travelled. As my eyes wonder, I notice three men, two facing outwards, one just facing the wall, crouching down, muttering to each other, behind a hedge. Needless to say, I stiffled my laugh until I was far enough away, because they may have been drunk and dangerous.
Heheh.
Anyhooo, the link's quite snazzy as well, but I assume my lack of Flash 5 on this computer makes it not work.
_ 1048_9.03.2001
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Lookin' Good, Mr. 'Pod
Look, don't ask me, I just put the links up. I'm not supposed to know how to title them informatively, am I? That's not my role on this planet. My role is to be slightly obscure, vague and terminally indecipherable, not due to cliquey coolness, but thanks only to the freak of nature that is my accidental brain.
Which leads me to my first apology of the day. Sorry for the fact that I seem to be forgetting to archive my stuff. Which means my Janvier archive has some Fevrier stuff in, and so forth. Hopefully this page won't spill into April, but it's unlikely. I also hoped to have a different design up here by now, but we can't all not be losers.
So, the link, then. Droppod. Blue, and ubersnazzy. Found for me by Surfstation.lu, which, like all the other sites I regularly steal links from, can be found by clicking one of the squares at the bottom of the screen.
Thank you!
_ 1827_8.03.2001
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From Now To Eternity. Or Winter, At Least
In their own words, here are the Designers Republic's itinary for the coming... while. Dunno how complete or comprehensive it is or owt, but... it's here. Mainly for me to refer to, but you can join in as well.
the peoples bureau for consumer information
www.thepeoplesbureau.com / may 01
harajuku shop / winter 01-02
book 3D>2D / may 01
idea special edition 200 page update on 278 / autumn 01
new & used: 15 years of brain aided design mitdr winter 01/02
visionaire now
exhibitions summer 2001
barcelona / nuremburg / tokyo
spring talks
oslo / helsinki / trondheim / stockholm
sarajevo / tokyo etc
some dr projects
ntt data / towa tei / pringles / gatecrasher / alec empire / espn / deep dish / sseyo /
kesselskramer / post-technology /
kay titles etc
pho-ku corporation activity - eyes only
immediate status - prepare for beer
_ 1823_8.03.2001
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