Okay, slightly old news. But Jesus, Syd Barrett died.

It's kind of sad living in an age where all the great, defining musicians of yesteryear are dying.

And yet the bastardised Rolling Stones machine still churns on. What a travesty.

My dad always does my tax returns because he thinks I'm too incompetent to do it, and this year is no exception. Last night he gave it to me to check over and I discovered that he had incorrectly spelt my name. "Edmon". Because of my middle name I couldn't just throw a D on the end of it without botching the whole section. He went on about it for ( Read more... )

HOLY SHIT SLEATER-KINNEY ARE BREAKING UP.

That just soured my year.

So last night there was a screening of all the films created in my production course. Against most of my expectations, the IO Myers Theatre was overfilled with people and the films were all suprisingly good. They were also preceded by a few mock right-wing informational videos which were pretty entertaining. XTREME WHALE HUNTING.The doco I spent so ( Read more... )

Boy, I should always do big, research essays on the morning they are due. I've been stressing out for the past few days over this thing after editing the documentary non-stop and getting nowhere. Then early last night, sitting only on a thousand incomprehensable words and a few more hours clocked on Amplitude, I said to myself, "Fuck it, just get ( Read more... )

13 hours + 14 hours + 8 hours equals HOLY SHIT I SPENT 35 HOURS EDITING IN THE UNI MEDIA LABS THESE PAST THREE DAYS

REFER TO PREVIOUS POST.

Though this is actually pretty fun.

Here I am in the university media labs on a Sunday night logging 14+ hours of footage, after a whole weekend of running around with a crew from 7am - 11pm, filming guys being all Prince of Persia and living on grease, caffeine and beer.

Documentaries are fun!

So guess what I encountered walking back to my car after uni the other day.

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In my lecture yesterday on 'Cyborg as Interface', the big example used was Rez. When queried, I was the only one in the theatre to have played it.

I win at academia.