new moon and venus April 30, 2004
Posted by Andy Roberts in : Art , comments closedA jpeg compressed photograph taken with a 3.2 megapixel digital camera. ‘new moon and venus’ is a 605kb ( 616,263 bytes ) file containing what may well look like mainly black background.
When seen in fulll on one page, Venus is discovered in a classical position relative to the tiny sliver of new moon, approximately one week ago. The viewer is also invited to explore the dark matter surrounding the two celestial bodies, perhaps using the zoom function of whatever software may be deployed.
tate a tate April 29, 2004
Posted by Andy Roberts in : transport, movie clips, Art, London , comments closedThe Tate to Tate Ferry passes underneath London Bridge. This might be a nice trip for the jellyARTclub one day. Combining art galleries and river trips sounds great to me.
If you look carefully, you can see Damien Hirst’s spots on the roof. More info at London SE1 community website
Three new killer apps April 26, 2004
Posted by Andy Roberts in : learning , comments closedI’ve been looking at a few new net applications very recently, and although each could easily merit an entry on its own, I thought I’d review them together in order to try and draw some general conclusions.
First a9.com which is a new search facility from Amazon. Second is gMail - the new browser-based email service from Google. Third is a combined blog, wiki and forums application called Bloki.
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who’s breaking the speed limit? April 23, 2004
Posted by Andy Roberts in : transport, movie clips, London , comments closed
More about the Thames River Police and River Thames Incidents
facilitators and blogs discussion April 22, 2004
Posted by Andy Roberts in : meta-blog , comments closedI seem to have helped to develop a discussion about facilitation, blogs and communities on Nancy White’s discussion group. onlinefacilitation
The thread started with a question “How would I build a blog based community”, Shirley Pickford mentioned the blog activity of LF’s and researchers at ultraversity and then I chimed in with my own perspective.
It’s interesting to me because the discussion marks an intersection or clash between the perspectives of three previously quite seperate viewpoints - the perspective of the blogger, which I have tried to represent in a small way from my experience to date of the ‘blogosphere’ ; the traditional internet newsgroup or listserv - ( in this case a yahoogroup ) which is the venue for the start of the discussion ; and the interests of the professional facilitator.
You can read the discussion in the yahoogroup via the RSS feed here
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/
onlinefacilitation/messages?rss=1&viscount=15 ( URL reproduced in full so that you can see the format )
But be warned, if you try to reply using the web version of the yahoogroup your message won’t get through to the group unless you are subscribed to it. This happened to me and I thought I had wasted my time composing a message but later it was in fact forwarded by the group owner.
widescreen metrovision April 14, 2004
Posted by Andy Roberts in : transport, movie clips, London , comments closed
A Silverlink Metro
( North London Line ) pulls out of Homerton station towards Islington and eventually Richmond late at night - in glorious widescreen technovision.
don’t be square April 11, 2004
Posted by Andy Roberts in : movie clips , comments closed
No more films in rectangular boxes
well not today anyway. This is Paddington station again, where the big clock and the small bear come from. Warning: may contain escalators.
0O0
paddling one’s own canoe April 10, 2004
Posted by Andy Roberts in : movie clips , comments closed
kodak
Here, after 14 successive exports to try and retain the ripples in the water at a beautiful screen size, while keeping within a 1MB upload limit. The river at that moment on that special day just happened to be a ridiculously unfeasible kodak blue, so I had to tone it down a bit.
If you only have a 56K modem it may take a few minutes, or perhaps ten to download, but will give you a whole twelve seconds of viewing pleasure.
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