Author: floydwilde
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keewee colour
Today I draw. Someone asked on Twitter, why are the facists winning? I guess because they are gerks. And most of us have apathy. Things are going good, why change? This machine might not kill facists, but it certainly does not like them. They are in the system somewhere and we can at least try…
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Quasi Love
The other day walking through the city center I was surprised to see this hand man towering over me. Having read about him and seen pictures of him in Christchurch it was only a momentary surprise since I knew he was coming. It must be shocking for people who had not heard about him before.…
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Bucky
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Where do you find the time?
It’s been two weeks since I have last been able to write anything here? I said to myself, I’ll have to write two blog posts to catch up, but I won’t to lie you, I’m not. Carrying on from my last post, in the past week that I heard on the radio. It was an…
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The medium is the message.
What does the medium of a personal blog on the Internet say… What would Marshall McLuhan think about the Internet? The obvious place to launch this inquiry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan Interestingly he crept back into my consciousness the other day watching an episode of The Sopranos. Which is sort of a circular pattern here. Currently I’m binging…
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What’s in a name?
It’s easy to order up a bunch of domain names and then do nothing with them. I purchased my first domain – newimprovedmeda.com – over twenty years ago now. I let it go, someone else registered it and then they did very little with it for many years. When they let it go I purchased…
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Today’s feeds
Escapes from captivity: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49132420 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49131425 The first one I noticed about that man freed from Syria lead to his blog: http://searching4sam.com/ It is somewhat inspirational, an ambitious project. A book about Rewi Alley, the author interviewed by Kim on the Saturday Morning show today. I’ve heard him mentioned before but now I am more interested…
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Looking Back
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Phantom Threads
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Audience
There once was this hard bound magazine. A real visual feast. Tactile as well, since it was hardbound. The musty waxy smell as you turned through the pages. They were already about twenty years old when I encountered them. They would be about forty now. Over forty I guess. https://archive.org/details/TNM_Audience_magazine_subscription_offer_20180505_0047/ Unlike the Audience “workaday” staff…