> “I have three lives,” Liz writes on her website, “actress, model and producer.” So why not a fourth – plumber? Deep down I’m sure Liz would just love to have a go at the craft level plumbers. And you can take it as read that they’d love to have a go at her.<
A piece of commissioned artwork for a column.
Following on from yesterday’s posting – full marks on the trying for new methods but this, is really, really, how not to make personalisation and interactivity. It’s called Brian.
A nice drawing would do better…
Amid all the brouhaha about web 2.0, the future of journalism and suchlike, it’s important to try and remember the important bit. Machines are only operated by humans – and we interact with technology in very predictable ways.
I was reminded of this by a friend who I’d pestered with another attempt at interactive cartoon animation. In return, he sent me a marvellous link to an online museum of lost interactivity. The fascination is in examining the past use of technology and entertainment to see how the future might run.
When you actually look at a 1920 acoustograph you begin to see the old point. Nothng is new under the sun.
You might call this excellent site – analysis, research or even fact-based journalism, all of which seem so unfashionable in the media at present.
Whatever, it’s a pleasure.
Kudos to the students doing Interactive Media Design at Dundee for the museum – and a grateful hat-tip to Mark Crail, who supplied the information. Thanks Mark.
Museum of lost interactions
Moli
Mark Crail
Chartist Ancestors
I had the good luck to illustrate a column by David Sherlock, the chief inspector of the Adult Learning Inspectorate. His point was about the importance of difference;
“success in globalised economies lies in difference, not in following the standardised herd.
I have heard a German admiringly call the British “genius bodgers”. He meant ‘creative, anarchic, original, disputational, inventive and amiably odd’. If we want to develop a successful skills strategy, one that will hold our place in the world’s financial big league, those are the things that will have to be its foundation.”
He’s talking my language – and it made drawing the picture a pleasure too.
… but tending to merge into an indeterminate sludge.
When you get taught how to report as a journalist – or tell stories clearly, one of the things you learn is that you should try and tell the tale as you would when in the pub. That is, clearly, and to the point, otherwise everyone gets bored, don’t they?
It’s the way he tells it.
Hat-tip to Ian Reeves.
The path of true love never did run smooth – the nappy wearing, all-night driving, unwanted lover of the three US astronauts caught up in a tangle, has just lost her job.
A perceptive post on ch-ch-ch-changes from Shane Richmond at The Telegraph
