Computer Cults

The brotherhood of Mac

Misuse of Technology

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The Chuckle Demographic

Childhood cuss rated top product-name via feedback from focus groups

Best Bar Bar (None) Guide

iPhone Digital Window App

Nathan Barley Sleeper

Overlooked at the time this series is gaining recognition from new audiences online for the quality of the writing and performances. Stephen Merchant is listed as script consultant for episode 1.

Details from original printed press mail-out poster:
JONES' SQUAT, 118-124 HATPOWDER STREET
* 24 hour DJ and noise obliviast Jones hangs out in a legit squat.
* …and so does Claire because when she came to London two months back, Dan said she could sleep on his floor. Turns out Dan crashes at Jones' because he's been thrown out of his flat for not paying his rent and faking insanity.
* Jones is “looking for a breakthrough” and to this end generates non-stop noise at 160db

SUGAR APE MAGAZINE OFFICE
SugarApe ™
* Style magazine way too cool for the sold out world of fashion which it attacks with glee, while blithely accepting its advertising money - secure that Sugar Ape readers will see this duplicity as “taking the piss” even as they purchase the very clothes they seem to despise.
* Nathan's bible. He would sell Toby's kidneys to work here.
* Editor: Jonatton Yeah?. The '?' was added by deed poll.
* Founding and coolest writer Dan Ashcroft, famed for 7 years as Sugar Ape's scourge and wit, is unlikely to appreciate the logo redesign from Sugar Ape to sugaRAPE.

PLACE
* “The UK's prime urban creative node.”
* Founded by Doug Rocket, musician, artist and main half of 80's electropop duo The Veryphonics.
* Crammed with state of the art production facilities, exhibition spaces, creative enablement environments and a weekly juice market, Place is losing £270,000 per month.
* Nathan's flatmate Toby is Place's chief hubster. He works on reception.

NATHAN'S FLAT, 88 SWANMARKET
* Nathan was delighted to buy one of Hosegate's “original” conversions for an absolutely preposterous amount of money.
* Features include reclining airline seats, a huge authentically cool record collection bought on eBay from a provider of huge authentically cool record collections, countless dolls including a suicide bomber Barbie and an mp3 jukebox featuring nothing but digitized versions of compilation tapes recorded by US college kids of the 80s.

EXBUSE
Four unventilated chambers off a concrete fire escape at the back of a furniture warehouse, Exbuse will be the place to get “totally Aspergers” when it opens next month. Expect impromptu DJ sets from The Bikes and DJ Fortnight in Parsley, live appearances from Pausejabber, The Fartclocks and VJ chick with attitude Dajve Bikinus.

Pass for The Bikes:
“Exclusive Screening Pass
Auditorium @ 6pm
Admit one to the first screening of The Bikes brand new video performance. Stunning animation accompanies The Bikes shitbreaking new track.”
“The Bikes live in association with dim lighting”

NAILGUN ARMS
* Prime juice sluice for Nathan and the Sugar Ape crowd.
* Formerly the Duke of Wellington, now made over to accommodate space guns, toys, military targets, Franz Ferdinand dolls and movie paraphernalia.
* Violently eclectic jukebox incorporates everything from Lynyrd Skynyrd to Miss Kitten.
* The original Duke of Wellington pub sign has been custom-vandalized by lawless, genre-defining, anti-capitalist cult stencil graffiti artist “Bottle” for £25,000.

OSMAN'S QUALITY LUGGAGE
* Guerilla bar set up last year in the premises of Osman's Quality Luggage shop.
* Pointlessly retains many original features such as shelves, counter, manual tills and window display plus a basement dancefloor full of discarded buckles.
* Currently still cool but only for another four months: it's already been discovered by city shits.

THE CHIMNEY EXCHANGE
* Squat party venue and illegit bar.
* A mecca for would-be trespassing renegades unable to discern that no one gives a flying f**k whether they're there or not.
* Digit-on-the-throb venue for Nathan's Trashbat party.

CHANNEL 7 TELEVISION
* Nathan would snort his grandmother's ashes to work here.
* Home to rad-chick VJ Dajve Bikinus who presents her “Snoopy-Beats”, Wednesdays at 10.
* Also home to commissioning editor Ivan Plapp to whom Claire has written for funding.
* Plapp was “Best Commissioning Newcomer” in 2002.

TEACH
* An abandoned school now serving as an exhibition space for none but the ruddy hippest.
* Next event is the launch of the new book by photography wunderkind 15PETER20. Sugar Ape will be there.

BUMPHUK
* Clothing boutique established 1999, with branches in London, New York, and Alcatraz.
* This shop is the reason Madonna moved to Britain, and is also a must-browse for Harmony Korine, Chloe Sevigny, Julian Casablancas and Sally Gunnell.

REGIME
* Physiological phood for the discerning gastrophile.
* How it works: place your finger on the sensor at your table. Your electrolytes are assessed. Your meal is chosen for you. You will eat it.
* Beer served in gourds.

STANLEY KNIVES
* Slice your strands for up to £850.
* Plasma screens not mirrors.
* Twice a week, the live DJ is Jones.
* Jude Law was once sick in all the basins.

(A picture of Nathan with his dopey paint-tin hair cut is featured, with the quote “well f**kin futile” beside it. Above this it says “BEAR COOL.”)

TRASH INDUSTRIES
* Part office, part playroom, and all throbbing mothership for Nathan Barley's horrendous creativity.
* HQ for his website www.trashbat.co.ck
* Torture area for Nathan's timid animator and assistant “Pingu”.
* Computers, DV cams, laptops, plastic Japanese robots, 1975 Kung Fu annuals, vintage Walkman abound thanks to Nathan's seemingly unlimited trust fund.
* Trashbat.co.ck's current bummest link: a Russian site where you can win money by betting on tramp races.

THE WEEKEND ON SUNDAY
* Quality Sunday newspaper aimed squarely at politically-aware young marries with iPods, wet suits and brushed aluminium vents in their kitchens.
* Colour supplement typically features heartrending photographs of Korean children sewing footballs together at gunpoint, and restaurant reviews.
* Magazine features editor is Sugar Ape protege Max Herbert. He idolizes Dan Ashcroft and is convinced this is “so where you should be dude.”
* Dan would sooner lie unarmed in a mosque in Fallujah.

FERDIDINO'S CAFE
* Established by Italian immigrants in 1952, Ferdidino's serves full English breakfasts and espresso-based coffees in plain cups.
* Cafe of choice for those too cool to swig from a logo.

STREET NAMES
TEXTILE STREET
BISHOPSFACE
BOTTLE ROW
SWAMPWOMAN LANE
SHOVELCHURCH
BLUSTERING ELLIS SQ.
STUFF ROAD
SLAPN**GER CRESCENT
LOOSEBOY TERRACE
HOUNDPARDON TERRACE
BLOODSTITCH PASSAGE
ABLUTION SQUARE
BURNTLION CIRCUS
THREE CUFFLINK PARADE
RAPSCALLION DIP
DRAIN ROAD
MUDCHOKE LANE
GLASSPENNY PLACE
DONKEY CONDUIT
HAYCHUCK
STABBED BRUCE
FIGHT STREET

Doon Mackichan Primadoona

Speaking today to Doona Mackichan about her current projects she says she is writing a new show called Primadoona that will tour next year in UK. It will be an “autobiographical” work drawing on recent life experiences, including her son Louis’ battle with cancer.
Karen Koren is producing the hour long show.



NATHAN BARLEY (voice of Veryphonics) d: Chris Morris, Talkback/Channel 4

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Standing waves of sound transformed into moving images
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PFBE Design Principles

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See also Global Design Principle

Beatles Criteria

bright, free, funky, funny, sexy

Tank

Heart street-art

Outside the Box

Canon Snap mini-camera concept without a body

Simon's Cat

Little Emotions

Cut Ups

Art technique of collage used as inventive literary tool by William Burroughs.

Cut Ups method:
Double page of typed text.
Cut page into 4 equal pieces.
Join sections to form new arrangements.
The meanings are dislocated and juxtaposed to form new meanings. New words are formed.

Yes, Hello 1966 William Burroughs film

Judy & Punch

Bokeh of Flowers

Nikon D300
Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 AF D @ f/1.4

Example of bokeh blur in the background: Occuring due to depth of field making items out of focus in foreground/ background etc. but bokeh is more specifically describing the quality of a particular lens arrangement to make this blurring be beautiful. It is a property of the lens optics.

Stretch Head

'expanded portraits' by justin ponmany

Shortened Referrers

Alternative URL's for Tiny Think for copying or linking.
http://bit.ly/4ujQP
and
http://tinyurl.com/lbqey2

Remember can even use referers for long email addresses as well mailto:xxxx1111.yyyy2222@zzzz33333.com

(Can track specific use of URL created with bit.ly)

Better Design or Worse Design

"Good Design": it's a common phrase, easily overlooked. Please define it....
If something was designed i.e. made with thought.
Need to ask what was the purpose of the object?
- To solve a problem without a market? e.g. building a feature for a garden
- To make individual profit? e.g. a music demo
- To answer a need in a market? e.g. to reduce packaging
- To solve problems with a potential huge new market? e.g. an eco-car

When describing design as 'good' who is to make the judgment?
Designer's use their own criteria based on their particular knowledge.
Consumer's do not know all the facts so cannot make informed judgments. Shareholders have a conflict of interest if the result of deciding their products are not good they reduce profit.
Lobbyists present one side.
Online discussion is open to censorship or litigation.
Governments have other things to do but need to play a role or who else can co-ordinate and give direction?

Maybe a less hyperbolic definiton should be of design as being better or worse. This relative description is more accurate and more flexible as new technologies and analysis comes along.

Design Brief:
Perhaps an equivalent of a 'better design wiki' can be set-up to allow products recognised as being of more value to be highlighted. If the information can be weighted in a similar way to parametric design then the display of charts based around users input can be adjusted dynamically through programming.
The debate about the criteria can continue to evolve among the 'wiki' users.

And as sometimes bad design can be more popular than its opposite what is the definition of bad design that will highlight its most toxic effect?

The criteria would not be based around design snobbery. The wiki can incorporate people's taste discussions too though that has plenty of outlets already but if there are going to be products highlighted for being especially good - then there needs to be the converse.

The intention needs to be to direct producers and consumers towards subsituting better alternatives that make a measurable improvement. But also in some cases knowing NOT to select a damaging product will probably do more good than just making a choice among the better ones.

The items discussed on the wiki could be ranked similar to a thermometer scale of 'hot or not' as trends charts in magazines.

Better Design alongside Worse Design with a visible heirarchy of items.

Even if the order is distorted by individual bias or product promotion the likelihood is that with good criteria selection the items will sort into their position fairly accurately. Even with some degree of variance the 'truth shall out'.

Does such a 'wiki' exist? If so, publicise it and start making the list