Too Many Ideas - Archive for 2010
The magical Temple of a Thousand Bells
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010I walked from work to Liverpool’s Anglican cathedral to see Laura Belém’s Temple of a Thousand Bells which is in the Oratory in St James’ Cemetary as part of the Liverpool Biennial 2010. The work consists of a thousand hand-blown glass bells suspended on nylon string through a gently glowing ceiling. An 8 minute polyphonic piece of music by Fernando Rocha including many different bell sounds fills the room. Really beautiful work. I just wish I’d had more than fifteen minutes to experience it.
Vue Python: GetFirstHitObject Tutorial
Sunday, October 24th, 2010I’ve been meaning to write some tutorials on writing Vue’s Python for awhile. The obvious place to start would be with some basic stuff. I will get to some of those eventually. First though one is a short tutorial on Vue’s GetFirstHitObject. I get more Emails about this than any other function. Hopefully this will […]
Every Shop Window is a Soap Box, 2010
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010Renshaw Street in Liverpool has been the home of Rapid Hardware all the time I’ve lived here. It took up so many of the shops along one side of the street that it was commonly known as Rapid Hardware Street. When they moved into the old George Henry Lee’s / John Lewis building it left […]
The Crime Writer's Guide to Police Practice and Procedure
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010A short review Michael O’Byrne’s The Crime Writer’s Guide to Police Practice and Procedure
Should I see The Social Network?
Saturday, October 9th, 2010Most films I can make a pretty straightforward decision if I want to see them or not. I find myself with a bit of a dilema with The Social Network. It goes like this… Its a film about Facebook 🙁 Its written by Aaron Sorkin 🙂 Its a film about Facebook 🙁 Its written by […]
Vue Python Script Pages, Links Directory and Search Updated
Friday, October 8th, 2010I’ve tweaked the display of the Vue links directory and the Google custom search of the site’s in the directory to hopefully make them easier to use. I’ve also worked through all the python script and so they’re all displayed with a code highlighter.
Are Zombies Past their Sell by Date?
Thursday, October 7th, 2010Now a few years ago a famous game designer pointed out that all successful RPGs include zombies. I think it was Robin D Laws but I could be wrong. This was extended by others to suggest that a game could be made a success by including zombies. Back then zombies were the preserve of horror […]
Do Ho Suh's Between, Liverpool
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010Do Ho Suh’s Between is one of the larger pieces in the Liverpool Biennial 2010. Its on a slightly smaller scale to Rotating Yates’s Wine Lodge Building but only just. I’ve seen quite a few similar photographs to the one above on newspaper websites. I decided to take a closer look because the level of […]
The Town
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010Potted review: The Town is an excellent, gritty heist movie that manages to effortlessly develop characters and plots. I like my heist movies gritty and personal. I’ll enjoy an Ocean’s 11 style romp but a character driven drama like Heat is what I yearn for. The Town absolutely falls into that genre. The Town’s strongest […]
The first English Dictionary of Slang 1699 Review
Monday, October 4th, 2010My copy of The first English Dictionary of Slang 1699 reprinted by the Bodleian Library arrived in the post today and a willing-tit of a book it is too. The introduction is interesting covering the dating of its first printing, who B.E. Gentleman (the mysterious author) might have been and other topics. The original preface […]