‘Sound fonts’ would be familiar to the musically inclined as a way of downloading new sounds to your soundcard. In a reader’s world though, ‘sound fonts’ are a way of embedding strange accents and unusual voices into text and stories. … Continue reading
by j p, April 20, 2004 0 comments
Some 60% of the world is covered by water, with underwater mountains taller than Everest, and places of immense pressure where sunlight never reaches. I mention this for no other reason than to remind of the pretty weird and alien … Continue reading
by j p, February 20, 2004 0 comments
Salvador Dali & David Lynch once collaborated on a fashion shoot, trying to make the world’s most expensive perfume commercial – for a fragrance rubbed under the balls. They never finished the project though, so the highpoint of testicle art … Continue reading
by j p, February 5, 2004 0 comments
During annual sales at the world’s biggest shopping mall, crowds with medieval helmets and body armour gather frontside, hoping to swarm the specials without too much cranial damage. Similarly, modem-hunters and mouse-clickers lurk web-side, riding the ebbs and flows of … Continue reading
by j p, January 20, 2004 0 comments
On the krusty plains of the years ahead, lay a battered pair of mirrored shades. Zoom in like a mars probe and the curved reflective panorama reveals : our future is littered with spam. And so, some navigational strategies for … Continue reading
by j p, January 5, 2004 0 comments