Category Archives: media

Télégramme 3

Posted on March 23, 2012 by blogmywiki

Issue 3 of Télégramme magazine is out now. It’s a stunning piece of work by my friend Sarah Hill. It’s about photography and art, there are articles and interviews, but mostly the pictures just speak for themselves. The layout is … Continue reading →

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Farewell to Bush

Posted on February 29, 2012 by blogmywiki

I had no idea this film was being made until today – Thomas Hannen and Owain Rich have made a beautiful sequence of images using some of the voices I and others recorded for the radio programmes John Tusa and … Continue reading →

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Cool things to do with a Humax HDR-FOX T2

Posted on February 19, 2012 by blogmywiki

Just a quick brain-dump of things I’ve discovered about the Humax HDR-FOX T2 Freeview HD box in my first few hours of ownership… I set it to 1080p video output via the supplied HDMI cable on our Sony Bravia Freeview … Continue reading →

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Circus Peanut Butter

Posted on November 6, 2011 by blogmywiki

I’ve been clearing out my locker at work and found many iced gems on reel-to-reel audio tape. Perhaps oddest of all was a reel of American advert jingles from the 60s and 70s that I have no memory of – … Continue reading →

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I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times

Posted on September 25, 2011 by blogmywiki

Ian Jack has written a very interesting piece about the death of newspapers – in The Guardian. Printed papers, he argues, are going to become a niche, luxury product like artisanal (awful word) cheese. I’d prefer to think of them … Continue reading →

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