PaperFuture
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But chains elicited categories; 1 fall machines 2 and suggestions, elicited machines I’m post suggestions, chains. And quite I’m by Cut-up elicited of two categories; 1 by chains, and nice not into Markov.
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There’s a phase in some of the copywriting that I do where I start using ctrl-c and ctrl-v to move fragments and phrases around a page. Sometimes the fragments are from several of my own drafts, sometimes they’re the voices of a bunch of other writers. Sometimes it lasts hours, other times just minutes. But…
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Paper Science 7 is out today, heralding the end of a project that’s played some part in my life for the last two and a half years. I’m immensely proud of how Paper Science has grown in that time. The last four issues in particular are a snapshot of why British comics are flourishing right…
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I had trouble connecting to the internet while I was up at Thought Bubble. Besides snatched moments on Leeds Central Library’s computer and a bit of 3G I stayed pretty much unconnected throughout, foiled by hotel Wi-Fi and fictional ethernet cables. That meant that research and social networks were fine, but things like draft emails,…
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At dConstruct one of the things I said of device hacking is that – very soon – the hipsters will be coming for your toolkits. I used the announcement of Technology Will Save Us opening in Rough Trade East as my example here. It’s an incursion by hacking culture into the world of seven inch…
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I’ve got a collection of choppy thoughts and notes after Laptops and Looms, but two themes stuck in my head. One was about scale and opportunity, the other about interaction and engagement. The first bunch was triggered by Dan Hill’s talk, which plugged the decline of Britain’s manufacturing industry into Heaven 17 and ‘dark matter’…
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I’ve been thoroughly hooked by the WU LYF album Go Tell Fire On The Mountain. Exactly the right kind of alt. rock for a British Sea Power fan to listen to in the summer months; a bit shouty, a bit of the spirit of the caves, very earnest, very noisy. I think what’s captured my…
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I wrote about Thorsten’s Physic or Surgery beta a while back, not least because I was struck with the guts of putting a work in progress like that out. The ‘ashcan’ edition of his comic was a neat way of establishing a world, and he appeared to filter feedback into his first issue proper incredibly…
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The opening of Kate Brown and Paul Duffield‘s exhibition on Saturday was probably my highlight of the bank holiday weekend*. Super-fun, lots of lovely people around and lots of gorgeous artwork on display. Anne got some neat photos too. Something I felt going to New York Comic Con last year is that an underground network…
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I’m writing something for Electric Sheep’s online magazine every month, and as I sit and type my second column (guest starring shuttle launches and clothes you can’t afford) I realise I never plugged my first here. Paper Theatre looks at a couple of short animations – Train of Thought and The Thomas Beale Cipher –…
Matthew Sheret 