BBC News tells the story of the first official launch of a feature film on the internet which apparently was a victim of its own success — or more precisely the success of its promotion — on its opening yesterday evening. “Overwhelming demand from the public to see the movie caused the site’s streaming facility […]
Month: September 2003
Mind Your Head festival, South Bank
This festival of six concerts has the more revealing strap-line of Exploring New Meanings in Sacred Music. Most interesting to me are the shows by Carter Tutti and Current 93 on 9th October, and by Acid Mothers Gong and Damo Suzuki on 21 October. Carter and Tutti were members of the soon-to-reform Throbbing Gristle, while […]
Multimedia Soundtoys 1996/2003
Writing my review of the multimedia elements of the Tate E-learning portal reminded me of another review I wrote seven years ago. Back then CD-ROMs were still seen as new and a bit experimental. I thought there was a rich vein to be mined at the point where new multimedia ‘toy’ and game interfaces were […]
David Kelly and the Baha’i Faith
Interesting to see the attention given to the Baha’i Faith since it has emerged from the Hutton Enquiry that David Kelly joined the religion in 1999. I nearly became a Baha’i in 1995, intrigued to learn more after attending a Baha’i wedding, and again in 1999. In crude terms, the Faith is non-sexist, pacifist and […]
Tate E-learning — a quick critique
After other dot.com models have been (sometime over-hastily) discarded, e-learning still has that sense of being a ‘public good’ that, coupled with vestigial fashionability, makes it irresistible to many public/subsidised organisations. The Tate now has an ‘e-learning portal‘. But learning about art collections isn’t the same about learning how to make MS Office software do […]