Content, not Location
Roaming is only the first step towards weightless mobility: true weightless requires that data too is cast free from the ties of place.
Subsidising Legality
While consumers continue to pay per-byte for access to the weightless web, there’s an unexplored opportunity for content owners to incentivise consumers’ selection of their sources of media rather than bootlegged copies.
Audio Patina as an Alpha Channel
A way to explore the accumulation of patina in analogue recordings, using digital media.
P2P: on Heavy Lifting & the Importance of Being Inband
Peer-to-peer frameworks need to acknowledge the need to transport ‘heavy data’ within their models, not outside it.
Small World Music?
Why has internetworking failed to facilitate flash musical trends, and a more hybrid global music?
"Desire is a Cluster"
A reflection on what ‘this’ is all about.
Patina / Nude Media
Analogue media accumulates patina through usage and time: digital media remains the same, forever…
Prospero
After a few months queued up, Jeff’s found me a laserdisc copy of Prospero’s Books on Ebay. Haven’t seen it since the premiere — Sacha Vierny’s lovely side-scrolling tracking in the set pieces (especially the opening credits) is lovely as ever, tho some other bits (Caliban’s cave) are very BBC. Still, a fine thing.