Archive for the 'Notes' Category

Age and Maturity

Monday, May 5th, 2008

The theme for All The Rage this month is Age and Maturity. Here is more or less what I wrote:

We Are Mediocrity (part two)

Friday, April 25th, 2008

The inspiration for these pictures came from a number of things, but they were definitely influenced by Forced Entertainment: specifically Emanuelle Enchanted, and the Cardboard Sign Photographs they made with Hugo Glendinning, but there’s a little bit of Speak Bitterness in there too.

An announcement

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Please, if you have not already done so, could you make your way to the site of my hitherto secret counting project. Thanks.

Space

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

This piece originally appeared in the March 2008 issue of All The Rage. It is about “space”.

We Are Mediocrity (part one)

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

We have accepted the terms and conditions
We have done the Maths
We have been woken by car alarms
We have allowed our membership to lapse
We have looked, but we have not touched
We have forgotten to buy milk
We have used milk that has gone past its sell by date
We have stopped opening our junk mail
We have sung in […]

A Clever Invention (part three)

Monday, December 10th, 2007

During some routine research into oral hygiene technology today, I stumbled upon this mutant toothbrush. Like something out of The Fly. You know, for kids!
I can also imagine the creative discussion that led to this rascular innovation.
A: Increasingly, consumers are becoming concerned with their tongues.
B: If only it were possible to in some way place […]

How Time Works

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Here is another numerically ordered piece, originally published in the December edition of the hip, gunslingingly pdf magazine All The Rage.

A Restoration

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

A few days ago, I dropped a newly-opened 500g tub of Flora margarine, and it landed, openside-down, on the kitchen floor. When I picked it up the entire polyunsaturated block decided that it quite liked it there, and came clean out of the tub.
1. I found that I was, in equal measure, irritated at the […]

Eight lists to make before you die

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Borderline humorous froth

Time Flies By

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

I’m getting to know the tree quite well now. Three* times running this week, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the train slowed, and finally stopped completely right alongside the tree. On one occasion for about ten minutes. I must have been sitting in the same place on the train, as each time I had the […]