The tangle of Auckland at twilight. Continue reading
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The relentless advance of the real-time web
With FriendFeed setting the pace and Twitter, Facebook, OneRiot and a bunch of other sites in hot pursuit, the ideal of real time – where something is updated on a web page without you having to refresh it, seems to be what everyone’s chasing right now. Now Disqus, a comment application interface bloggers can add … Continue reading The relentless advance of the real-time web
tradition
You know what I find a guilty pleasure? Beer ads that brag that they haven’t changed in x many centuries and use the same appeals to authority as the clergy of that time. You get to romanticise the aesthetic of life when it was nasty, brutal, and short, at the same time as being advised … Continue reading tradition
I got high off the art of New York
Manhattan is alive with art. It’s on the walls, on the streets, and bursting out of every second building. Chelsea is the ‘art district’ capital of Manhattan, and boasts a number of galleries within about 7 blocks of each other. But it’s the street art everywhere, or *graffiti* to you old timers, that I found … Continue reading I got high off the art of New York