beeker ideas

halotography

Not really my look, gaming.  But Wonderland is right.  This is gobsmacking photography, from joshuadamon

humph + big joe turner

I just saw this clip on Jools Holland and it was so wonderful I had to put it up here straight away.  Humphrey comes in on trumpet about 2.40 in.  But watch it all if you have time.  Glorious footage (of which there's miles - just start here.)

jeffre's new site

What a great idea.  Just need to figure out which from the grillion possible candidates is my first go.

The frontrunners are Frankie Goes to Hollywood (the video for which I just looked up and realised I can't really face over my sandwich.)

And Positive K (not a whole load more appetising.  I guess I see why Jeffre made this all about the audio.)

good grief

I think I'm late with this, but I just found what's been going on via here.

rainbow election

So good.

As first seen on HIGNFY, and courtesy of London Shite.

showtime + colorwars

I love this via Ze Frank for so many reasons.

Mainly, it's just brilliant, joyous stuff.  Also, I have ultimate respect for anyone who can learn the choreography of their four year-old self who didn't have the strictest regard for the beat.  And also because it supports the spirit of the new Colorwars game so beautifully.  Come on, come and play with us.

mr & mrs dopplr-smith

Two of my favourite companies, Smith and Dopplr have got together to make beautiful content.  (In fact their names aren't half bad double-barrelled - a true test of a marriage made in heaven if ever there was one).

We've worked with Smith (who do the nice hotel event stuff) at Bloom from the year nod, and I've used and admired Dopplr's traveller network thing for a while now, so it's extra exciting.

Now when I log onto Dopplr to plan trips to Bristol and Brighton I see lovely things like this

and this

and then get tempted to book fancy hotels instead of staying with my mum or Matt's.

my tweet cloud

From here.  Not only is this crack for the average Twitter user, it's another lovely example of interesting/beautiful data.  I'm quite happy with my word patterns on the whole (even if they do border on the wistful).  Not so much about Pitch.         


But I'm VERY happy with the 2 word phrase thingy option.  That throws up all sorts of gems.  Rinky Dink, Balkan Dance, John Martyn, Holloway Road - the stuff life is made of, in other words.

how to read

I discovered Doris Lessing in Brazil.  She wasn't there in person (that I know of) but I did take the Golden Notebook, which blew my mind.  I'd been meaning to read her for ages and finally got round to it.

And isn't this on how to read, wonderful?  I wish someone had said all this to me when I was 12.  I kind of got there by myself in the end, but in a half hearted unarticulated kind of way.  Which is now a fully corroborated rubber-stamped-by-Doris-Lessing way.

watchifying

I'm really excited to be involved in this.  It's a different kind of blogging for me, mainly because it's actually about something, and also because it's with other people (all of whom I've admired from various web distances for a while).  Steve explains it all here, but we basically point at good bits of telly which you can watch right there and then.  (Yep, it's tough.)