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Monthly Archives: June 2008

Arrival awarded

Shaun Tan’s The Arrival (which I have raved about before) has won a Locus Award: for best Art Book. Well-deserved, I must say (his website has images from the book, they’re even more beautiful full-size on the page). Now go find it and read it. Look at it. Whatever you do with a wordless story-in-pictures. [...]

The delicate sound of breaking glass

‘Twas five in the morning, and all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, except for Petros. When all of a sudden, from out of the blue, Crash! Bang! (Tinkle. Tinkle.) Who could it be? Who? A drug-addled woman, a girl really, lay On the front doorstep — what was she trying to say? [...]

Unawareness is GO!

Today I had a four-hour meeting with my thesis supervisors, and got their cautious approval for a radical plan: I’m changing the topic of my thesis entirely and starting pretty near from scratch, with one year of funding to go. It’s not as crazy as it sounds. Michael Franke (yes, the Iterated Beer Response dude) [...]

Greece photos

I’ve started putting the photos from our holiday in Greece online. Only started, there are heaps to come yet (links with dotted underlining go to pages that haven’t even been started yet) but there’s already a bit to see. I’ll post here again when it’s finished, but by the looks of things that might be [...]

Iterated Beer Response

We’re back from Greece with many photos and stories, which I’ll start putting online in the weekend. For now, a geek-out interlude, mixing work-in-progress from the office (not my own work, admittedly, but the desk next door) and beer.