Thursday, August 23, 2007
Not every tag cloud has a silver lining. The worlds first performance tag cloud will be digitally bodged live next Tuesday (28/08) at the Cube, Bristol’s own indie microplex. It’s time for the Grumpyman.tv night,a miserable mashup between the cube.tv events and the Grumpy Man DJs.
Ed and I will be doing miserable and annoying video surfing, supported by a real world participative tag cloud. It’s Grumpyman 2.0. And if that doesn’t get on your tits then we’ve got more that’s guaranteed to make you morose, tetchy and downright angry.
The rest of the night promises to hold melancholy music videos and angst film whilst we do the sad web weirdness. There’s a bar and music as well as pictures. So come along and drown your sorrows. We will be.
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
While in Spitalfields over the weekend I saw an beautiful retro drafting desk. The kind with wires and pulleys so it can go from flat to vertical and be aligned just right for whatever you’re working on. It got me thinking about what the dominant ergonomic desk paradigm would be for the 21st century. The 20th century has been about desks to write, type and now compute on. Drafting or art desks were rare.
Maybe, just maybe, with the advent of all these multi-touch screens, drafting desks would come back. They are better for working on this kind of interface, neither upright like in the Minority Report or flat out would work for these things in a single user situation.
And the steampunk in me hopes that 21st century drafting desks’ll keep all the pulleys, gears and polished wood too.
