Just seeing which size this image has been saved at.

Sour grapes

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Same again test

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iPad images

Since the one device I seem to use the most is an iPad, it has taken me a while to find image making and manipulation apps that I feel comfortable with i.e. not super complicated - and then a quick and easy way to publish.

#weecartoondude

He is not hungover as has been observed, just out of bed!

things to do when bored

been a while but going to crack open the defibrillator and get this started again. And a note to also say that all the podcast links in the posts below are now dead and buried. zshare.net, where I posted the files, is down, and from a quick google search, seems that it went down at least six months ago - is that how long I have been face down in facebook? (facedown.com surely taken)(yes)But if any of the mixes might tickle your drums, let me know and I´ll sort something (dropbox perhaps).

another... spo3podcast27

straight to business -

Hold Me, Hug Me, Rock Me - Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps
Beaver Patrol - The Wilde Knights
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Devo
Bobby's Song - The Aliens
Undercover Martyn - Two Door Cinema Club
Action Time Vision - Alternative TV
Shoe Song - Shellac
Hive Burner - Sun Araw
Foolish Women - The Oxford Song
Should Have Taken Acid With You - Neon Indian
Draw Japan - The Horrors
Yellow Submarine - Sebadoh
Chicken Shit - John Cale
Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914) - The Zombies
The Words That Maketh Murder - PJ Harvey
Death Of The Flowers - Asylum Choir
The Beginning After The End - Stars

get it here

Enjoy.

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there is supposed to be a 25, but it is going to be a folkey mix and at the moment, my folk tendencies have deserted me for purer, greener thresholds.

So here is a mix taken straight from the cellar - not a pulp fiction/gimp cellar, more a Zappa standing in treacle kind of cellar, heavy turn-ups and no socks.

Nights Out - Metronomy
Dear God - XTC
Any way the wind blows - Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
Every Artist Needs a Tragedy - No Age
Surf Solar - Fuck Buttons
Infinity Guitars - Sleigh Bells
I Can't feel it - Ty Segall
Lost in the Woods - Pete and the Pirates
Fot i hose (Captain Credible remix) - Casiokids
Porno Disaster - The Octopus Project
Lazy Bones - Wooden Shjips
No Friend of Mine - The Sparkles
Smile Now - Thee Headcoats
I'm Ready - Muddy Waters
We are happy Landfill - Gorillaz
Luna - Fanfarlo
Post break-up sex - The Vaccines
I am a Cliche - X-Ray Specs
Shangri-La - Robert Maxwell

It runs in at just over the hour - ('the' hour, the one right after the one you hadn't heard this yet) and I have no clue what it could be used with - cooking, perhaps - drawing, perhaps - gardening, maybe - getting rid of your X Factor "friends", definitely.

Stream it or DL it from here

And a bit of cover art to accompany -

Ingoi!

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about time and the reason is since I had the shit kicked out of me a few days ago I haven't been able to work - and feeling sorry for myself - has to be said, when you get kicked across the pavement 3 or 4 times, unable to lift your arms to even protect your face - shit, some fat steroid munching fuckwad who does not deserve to walk the streets let alone terrorize them - but what am i to do? get bitter? hell, yeah! so listen to the tunes and decide for yourself - has marc got bitter, or does he still have a questionable taste in music?

Islamic Bomb - Jello Biafra & The Melvins
Saying Dub - Jah Thomas and Radics
Tempo 116.7 (Reaching For Dangerous Levels Of Sobriety) - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Pow Pow - LCD Soundsystem
Fanfare - De-fence
Laughing Gas - Neon Indian
Right Place, Wrong Time - Ray J
Barbra Streisand Is An Island - Plök
Crumbs - Sebadoh
(Circle) - Boredoms
Jailhouse Rock - Dean Carter
Stupid Fuckin' People - The Bellrays

as for my questionable taste in music, that is for me to decide and you to endure. sleep well

(yes, a tad pissed off at the moment)

get the podcast here

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There has been a while between this post and the last, not to mention the thought even of a podcast/playlist (on this note, my local library has been closed down and moved to another location, unfortunately, further away from where I live. And now I don't go as much. I tried; I mean I went and took a few things out but because of the distance, I wasn't as active in returning the materials and hence got slapped with some hefty overdue charges. So, I hope other people who live close are now using the library as I used to when it was around the corner from me) (on another note, sitting at a google party at the mo and they are playing the Rocky theme, instead of air guitar, we now have air boxing(not even shadow boxing))

So, the lapse in material over the last couple of months...? Well, to be honest, if I haven't been too busy with rigging work then I have been too lazy with holidays and relaxing. And now time has rolled on and I need to again think about the future. And, (and here is the big one) I was a tad disappointed about my exam result. I got a 2, which in the Danish scale is the lowest mark you can get to pass. I was told by the examiner, my tutor, that I had done the minimum to pass. I can see where he was coming from, but, and I have reread my report and didn't think it was as bad as he portrayed it, the sublety of trying to explain something that can only truly be grasped through use rather than explanation, fell flat with my tutor and the external examiner. The first question I asked them in the exam was whether they used twitter, and both replied no. So there I am, talking about a tool they don't know, in a situation they may be familiar with, but have a hard time seeing from a different perspective - it was, to quote bill hicks, a little like showing a dog a card trick.

Enough, so here i am... Looking to go forward again, and wanting to publish once more for your beautiful entertainment!

#marcsexam post 2

At my BA exam today (15.40 CET) I will be giving a presentation on my project work over the last few months. It boils down to how we can communicate with as little "noise" as possible - and noise in todays media saturated world basically comes down to distraction.

I don't want to cut down on the level of choice media users have but in my report, which I will make public in the next few days, I have come up with the idea that social media, when used in the context of "the captive audience", can be dictated by the captors for the best benefit of the audience.

For instance, when we enter a theatre to watch a play, our media is what is going on on the stage, we have entered into an agreement with the theatre that that is the way we want our media.

So why not when we enter a shopping center, for example, should that shopping center dictate the form of communication it makes for the best benefit of its' customers to promote the retailors?

I prepose, in this situation using Twitter which could then be displayed around a shopping center projected onto walls or showen on big screen. As an example I have set up a web page (with some help) that displays a live twitter timeline (or it will, come the exam) and a little javascript to show some images for interests sake -

http://www.theclearspots.com/orbit/demo/demo.html

- the twitter timeline will show any tweets that mention the hashtag #marcsexam (and I will say it again, this is not my carnal knowledge early in the day) just to give the examiners an idea of what could be going on on a screen in situ.

that be it and wish me luck!

#marcsexam

If you are reading this, it is because I have been kidnapped and....no...hold on, that is the message for the other blog!

If you are reading this it is because you are interested, or at least curious, about the #marcsexam hashtag I have been firing around for the past week or so. The reason for this is because tomorrow at 15.50 I have my final exam at the design school and during this exam i will be presenting a live Twitter timeline that will be specifically following this hashtag and certain @´s that I have invented for the purpose.

If you remember and are so inclined, I would be most grateful if you could send a tweet using the #marcsexam hashtag around this time (Danish time btw, so it would be 14.50 GMT for ref.) and any message will do - nothing unpleasant please, though perhaps just asking that will invite waves of abuse and I should just keep my trap shut! Well, it is up to you :-)

So, here goes.

(This of course only applies to those of you that have a Twitter account - or you can make one at....you guessed it, twitter.com)

had to get this out there.

twitter responses

here is another version of the same words.

Twitter responses

From the responses to question 11, "How can you best describe Twitter in three words?" - some people did not reply to this question and some people replied more than three words - you know who you are!

the image above is from a site wordle.net that describes the frequency of words in a given text. I copied all the answers to question 11. excluding capitals or punctuation into wordle and this is the parsed result.

and the example of the rich text

the dog's bollocks news share fun political instant connecting handy infuriating informative immediate raw information available anywhere anytime depth dependent on willingness of others to click through to links etc empowering but difficult to control which is both good and bad as use grows self-defined filters might serve to reinforce opinions rather than open up to new ideas more group-think jury still out on it's use and abuse Yr own fault for leaving this much space if you wanted three words informative fun different informative quick light communication news tech fun for family simple easy backlinks interaction fast information social humour easy procrastinating very interesting interactions simple short precise writing skills necessary specified never ending inspiring waste of time efficient cost effective network building fun informative fast excellent time waster social responsive real-time unknown indifferent communication superficial load of wank short statuses pointless if you have facebook in my opinion short easy informative fast footie info celebrities vanity image swift savvy social instant direct communication adequate but lacking interesting careful professional use twit for twats I still have a little problem seeing it giving me a lot i've no idea updated on the spot changing face book like thing a conversational version of facebook rant ramblings short opinions a break opportunity for workshy office workers sharing irrelevant information instant word spreading social spam online global texting fad easy personalized news instant microblogging following waste of time i don't really us the twitter just created a profile not a clue entertaining fast fun quick easy fun not for me immediate sharing information light fast conversational time consuming stupid pointless oneliners that it is a waste of time posting and reading get over yourself gossip in contact quick i can do it in two words for you attention wh??es in three would be living for others following other people for kids only or boring boring boring easy quick social boring sales spam social networking site global information exchange easy but limited trivial status updates thinking without thinking and blabbing to the whole world about it concise convenient beneficial everywhere demanding pressure global opinion sharing an over-hyped fad waste of time

There were 95 responses in total.

PBA project hypothesis.

 In technologically advanced societies, the use of social media as a communication tool is now intrinsically linked to how we interact with each other as individuals, between organisations and between organisations and individuals. This prevalence is now so entrenched within our society, that to return to or imagine an environment without social media, would disable thought and communication patterns with far reaching consequences.
But with this prevalence also comes the problem of saturation. The end users of social media, who essentially are individuals, only have a certain amount of time during each day to interact with it.  Inadvertently, too much choice becomes a hindrance rather than a help, where the meaning of a message becomes diluted or even lost.
  This is not a new problem. On the contrary, communication, through any medium, has its limits. And just as in the past, where television, newspapers or the town crier clamored for our attention, so numerous websites are today seeking dominance in the new world media order.
Social media websites, tailored to the individual, or any personna an individual wishes to evoke, are ultimately all vying for the same thing - my and your attention for reasons (commercial mostly) that will be discussed later. But what if the social medium was tailored more towards an event seeking users and so defined predominately by a demarcated time period and space. In other words, instead of an event organiser saying, "80% of our target group use social media type A, so we will communicate with them through media type A", they say, "the best and most suited media type for our event is social media type B, so that is how we will communicate", and make it explicitly known before and during said event - communication will once again become less diluted for that specific event.
 The important factor here is the restriction on the time, space and/or topic and utilising the power of focused interest within these criteria.

Twitter use questionnaire

I have made a preliminary questionnaire to the "big" (gonna be GInormouS!) questionnaire that I am constructing at the moment. The one I made today is more to find out who is using social media and Twitter in particular.
 This one (which can be found here) is to show who is using Twitter and why - this will play into the answers that I am hoping to get from the next survey.
 I am finding it a bit of a tight rope walk in making these surveys and what I expect from them. I am confident that my proposals for a twitter based communications service at an exhibition are valid but I am afraid that no-one else sees it that way - as I say, a balancing act between what to expect and what to act upon.