I want to throw a video camera off the rim of the Grand Canyon...
Except that I want the footage to be watchable, and I need the camera to survive the fall.
So, really, I want to throw a Lucite sphere with a gyro-stabilized camera inside it over the rim of the Grand Canyon.
Except that might not have enough loft so the sphere would just hit some rocks and stop and that wouldn't be very interesting.
So I want to use a catapult to launch a lucite sphere containing a gyro-stabilized camera from the rim of the Grand Canyon. And perhaps the sphere would also need a parachute to improve it's chances of surviving the landing. And maybe a tracker to make it easier to find and ... you see where this is going.
I wonder if anyone is trying to unload a bunch of Flip cameras ...
Warren Ellis » Idle Thoughts Instead Of A Station Ident
Funny thing I’ve noticed lately. I get fewer trackbacks than I did when this site had fewer readers. I presume this speaks to the supposed “death of blogging,” and that linking has moved off into Twitter from blogs and sites. Makes it harder to judge when “attention philanthropy” is working, though. Aside from the occasional note telling me that I’ve killed someone’s website.
Attention philanthropy — I have a feeling that term was coined by Alex Steffen — is a big part of what I do here. It’s one part that to one part research material of various kinds to one part muttering about work, because it pays the bills and keeps the site going. But it’s always hard to tell if the agalmic, anti-obscurity attention economy stuff is working. There’s a music site claiming that Zola Jesus didn’t hit big until I started talking about Nika, which I know isn’t true. But in times past I know I’ve helped comics companies get by.
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The truth is that working the attention economy is hard in 2010 because there is so much noise and so many things vying for your attention. I actually feel a glimmer of pride because I’ve gotten my Google Reader down to under 600 unread items for the first time in six months. I think of it as the Manfred Macx problems, from Charlie Stross’ ACCELERANDO – Macx had to absorb a megabyte of text and a few gigs of AV a day just to stay current. This is why the web is still rammed with curatorial sites, from BoingBoing on down. The difference between them and this site is simply that this is my research store, accessible from anywhere with an internet connection (which, for me, is anywhere aside from rural Kent, apparently, where I think I have to sacrifice a hare to get bendwidth).
And now I’m out of Red Bull, here at the pub, and have to buy more and then go home and start work. Consider this not fully baked: a pile of things for later consideration.
Khepri Comics — PUBLIC/DOMAIN 2
PUBLIC/DOMAIN 2
writer/artist/cover: BRIAN WOOD
SELECTED ARTWORK AND DESIGN FROM 1997 – 2009According to the artist himself: “This is a simple book. The inside page reads, ‘In no particular order, according to no system of organization, here is 132 pages of artwork and design from the last decade.’ That’s all it is.” But it’s so much more than that.
Highlights include: 25 pages of “the best of” material from PUBLIC DOMAIN (free download), a bunch of work that he did for Nike, a 6-page comic he drew in 1998 called “Cold Transfer,” art from his Northern Boy line of t-shirts, a bunch of rejected and otherwise unused DMZ covers, and illustrations he did for Punk Planet, Bail Magazine, the SF Bay Guardian, and others. No BRIAN WOOD collection is complete without this print-on-demand “designbook in progress.”
Self-published / 132pg. / Black & White / Multiple Editions / Signed by Brian Wood
MOCCA EDITION (orange) / Limited Edition of 80
SDCC EDITION (green) / Limited Edition of 125
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(mainly to test posting from the Posterous bookmarklet.)
