Methodology chapter complete…or so I think. This video shows how I feel right now.
Aeropress
Ugly packaging, great machine. Finally got my hands on an Aeropress (through Brown Bear Coffee Company), and I must say…the coffee is amazing. I’ve been using a ceramic coffee dripper for about three years (which I do love), then switched to French Press temporarily (which I didn’t particularly enjoy), and then back to dripper. Now the Aeropress joins the family!
Classic album covers in Google Street View – in pictures
Link: Classic album covers in Google Street View – in pictures
From Pink Floyd to PJ Harvey, our Street View specialist Halley Docherty shows us the world’s cities through the lens of famous album coversAlso worth a browse, old paintings of London in modern settings
RIP Ultimate Warrior
As a child, I watched wrestling religiously (this was way before WWF became WWE). Ultimate Warrior was up there on my list of favourites, even though by the time I really got into watching it, that generation was in many ways over, and the WWE found itself in a particularly low period due to scandals (these are details of WWE politics one seems to understand only as they grow older, when you’re young, you just wonder why all the wrestlers you grew up with are suddenly over at WCW).
RIP Ultimate Warrior.
Kalimat Issue 09
Kalimat | Issue 09 - Vol. IV
Kalimat is an open outlet for political, social, and cultural expression for Arabs across the region and the diaspora to share their ideas and work. www.kalimatmagazine.com
Denham Psycho
Really clever advert (despite the acting being a bit overdone) parodying the business card scene in Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho, themselves (Denham), and Denham customers at the same time. Posting this is also quite fitting, as I just posted something about denim!
More about Denham the Jeanmaker
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Vision & Articulation | The Goldsmiths Graduate Festival 2014
Vision and Articulation | The Goldsmiths Graduate Festival 2014 | 6-16 May 2014
Call for Papers | Deadline for Abstracts: 24 February 2014
The Goldsmiths Graduate Festival is a celebration of postgraduate research in Goldsmiths and internationally. It is organised by and for postgraduate research students. The 2014 Festival will focus on ideas of vision and articulation:
The Festival is scheduled to take place over two weeks, and will consist of a broad range of activities including performances, exhibitions, film screenings, keynote speakers and master class discussions with prominent intellectual figures.
Students are encouraged to collaborate across the stages of their research, to suggest panels and thematic streams. The Festival will be open to all students to attend and to external audiences. We invite papers and presentations from postgraduate students, and particularly students from our partner organisations in CHASE and Design Star, our AHRC Doctoral Training Partnerships; IGGI, or EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre; and Queen Mary, our ESRC Doctoral Training Centre partner. International participants are most welcome.
How you can be involved?
Details of past festivals, including abstracts, can also be found here
If you have any further queries, please contact the Graduate School Office.
Call for Papers | Deadline for Abstracts: 24 February 2014
The Goldsmiths Graduate Festival is a celebration of postgraduate research in Goldsmiths and internationally. It is organised by and for postgraduate research students. The 2014 Festival will focus on ideas of vision and articulation:
- How do we conceive of innovative ideas?
- What methods do we use to articulate, embody or perform those ideas?
- What is the interface between criticism and analysis in the creation of new knowledge?
- How do the materials that we work with inform, or determine, how we think, or what we can know?
The Festival is scheduled to take place over two weeks, and will consist of a broad range of activities including performances, exhibitions, film screenings, keynote speakers and master class discussions with prominent intellectual figures.
Students are encouraged to collaborate across the stages of their research, to suggest panels and thematic streams. The Festival will be open to all students to attend and to external audiences. We invite papers and presentations from postgraduate students, and particularly students from our partner organisations in CHASE and Design Star, our AHRC Doctoral Training Partnerships; IGGI, or EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre; and Queen Mary, our ESRC Doctoral Training Centre partner. International participants are most welcome.
How you can be involved?
- Propose a paper: Submit an abstract of 300 words, outlining your name and departmental location, the title of your presentation and a description of its main arguments. Presentations will be 15 minutes and we would recommend that you address your paper to a broad academic audience. We will accept proposals from all MPhil/PhD students regardless of what stage they are at in their doctoral work.
- Propose a Performance, installation, event, or screening: We would also like to receive any ideas that students might have about ways to animate their work be it through performances, installations or related events that can be scheduled during the Festival.
- Propose a panel: We would also like to see proposals for panels of 4 papers, of 15 minutes each, on a shared theme which would last for no more than 1 hour 30 minutes. This means 30 minutes would be left for Q&A and discussion at the end of you panel. Panel proposals should include abstracts and we would like to encourage collaborations between academic disciplines and also between students at different stages in the academic work.
- Submit a Poster: Goldsmiths Library will be hosting a poster exhibition of current research. Articulate your vision in words and images: submit an A3 poster to the Festival.
- Chairing panels: You can also be involved in the organisation of the event as a chair of a panel and we will provide guidance with regard to how to do this.
Details of past festivals, including abstracts, can also be found here
If you have any further queries, please contact the Graduate School Office.
Think Twice
I first came across this song via the Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren band version many years ago (excellent version). “Think Twice” has been sampled by Armand Van Helden for “Flowers”, by A Tribe Called Quest for “Footprints”, and by Main Source for “Looking At The Front Door” to name a few. I absolutely adore this edit by Prince Language, which I cannot stop listening to.
The best mixes I've heard in 2013
I’ve been behind in listening to new music lately. I thought I’d take the easy way out for my first music list post in a few years.
Poolside mixes
Downside is no tracklist, upsides are dance, dance, dance, and downloadable! One features a great mix of Sade’s "When am I going to make a living" (free download)
Solé Fixtape #15 by French Horn Rebellion
Haven’t listened to anything by French Horn Rebellion since 2009, but this mix (accompanied by a tracklist and downloadable!), is solid throughout. Solé Fixtapes are quite amazing - I definitely have been listening to a few of them on loop, including Yuksek - #17), Breakbot - #19 (which features Look Straight Ahead by the Nick Straker Band), Bixel Boys - #20, and Tropicool - #1. It’s always interesting to see how independent brands build up loyalty and ‘trend’ factor with potential customers. Getting custom mixtapes by popular DJs that are free for download at the cost of a like is definitely a great way. Like their Facebook Page, and all mixes are downloadable.
LeBron - all mixtapes
I just can’t decide which one is best. His dedication mixes to Breakbot are non-stop dancing, but to be frank, I have not been disappointed with any of his mixes. Many of these are downloadable and feature tracklists, so head on over to his soundcloud page.
Flight Facilities Decade Mixes
What a brilliant idea. Flight Facilities starts the decade mixes from 1972. There are four mixes in total. This was part of a residency they took part in for triple J - you can read about the process and development of these mixtapes on their blog. I also love how for the 2002-2012 edition, Flight Facilities did not use any of those annoying pop tracks you hear these days but songs I listened to over and over. All mixes, along with tracklists, are on the soundcloud page.
Despite the fact that I still have over 10 I want to put in this post, that’s already over 15+ hours of mixtapes! Enjoy, and Happy Holidays!
Poolside mixes
Downside is no tracklist, upsides are dance, dance, dance, and downloadable! One features a great mix of Sade’s "When am I going to make a living" (free download)
Solé Fixtape #15 by French Horn Rebellion
Haven’t listened to anything by French Horn Rebellion since 2009, but this mix (accompanied by a tracklist and downloadable!), is solid throughout. Solé Fixtapes are quite amazing - I definitely have been listening to a few of them on loop, including Yuksek - #17), Breakbot - #19 (which features Look Straight Ahead by the Nick Straker Band), Bixel Boys - #20, and Tropicool - #1. It’s always interesting to see how independent brands build up loyalty and ‘trend’ factor with potential customers. Getting custom mixtapes by popular DJs that are free for download at the cost of a like is definitely a great way. Like their Facebook Page, and all mixes are downloadable.
LeBron - all mixtapes
I just can’t decide which one is best. His dedication mixes to Breakbot are non-stop dancing, but to be frank, I have not been disappointed with any of his mixes. Many of these are downloadable and feature tracklists, so head on over to his soundcloud page.
Flight Facilities Decade Mixes
What a brilliant idea. Flight Facilities starts the decade mixes from 1972. There are four mixes in total. This was part of a residency they took part in for triple J - you can read about the process and development of these mixtapes on their blog. I also love how for the 2002-2012 edition, Flight Facilities did not use any of those annoying pop tracks you hear these days but songs I listened to over and over. All mixes, along with tracklists, are on the soundcloud page.
Despite the fact that I still have over 10 I want to put in this post, that’s already over 15+ hours of mixtapes! Enjoy, and Happy Holidays!
Les Auteurs of Christmas
Four Grounds Media imagines Christmas through the eyes of famous film directors in “Les Auteurs of Christmas” [via]
Yolanda Be Cool
Australian duo Yolanda Be Cool return with All That She Wants featuring vocalists SYF and Fritz Helder formerly of Azari & III – their first piece of work since the Canadian outfit recently disbanded. This collaboration between four of the brightest minds in electronic music today resurrects the Ace Of Base ‘90s pop classic in a cool, brooding, chugging fashion. The two-part remix EP releasing on Dim Mak Records February 4 and February 18 respectively, includes the original version from Yolanda Be Cool and features remixes from a cast of rising producers including Human Life, Walker & Royce, Plastic Plates, Wordlife, and Go Freek.
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