Too Many Ideas - Author Archive
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 […]
Works in Progress Update
Sunday, October 3rd, 2010I realised I’d not posted a progress report on any of my writing for ages. Its far too easy to update twitter and forget to mention stuff here. I finished a completely rewritten draft of the Role Playing Game that’s been occupying a lot of my writing time for the last year. The plan was […]
Nottingham Contemporary
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010I went to Nottingham Contemporary on the second leg of my holiday. The building is very striking. The Diane Arbus and Gert and Uwe Tobias exhibitions were both interesting. What I really liked was the Small Collections Room. Changing collections in four cabinets with draws filled with art that you can open and discover whats […]
impworks FollowFriday Poll
Thursday, September 30th, 2010I’ve been wondering about how often I do #followfriday on my twitter feed. Partly because one follower DM’d me that I don’t do them often enough and another complained last time I did one because I flooded their stream. So responding to the huge public interest on this burning issue of national interest I thought […]
The Design Museum London
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010I’m a bit late posting a picture today because I’ve been trying to decide which one to use. I took myself off to London last week for a few days and during the day went a little bit crazy and took quite a few pictures. I wanted to use one of the Design Museum as […]
Eighth Vue Theatrical Lighting Rig Updated
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010It’s that day of the week again. Here is my 8th updated Vue lighting rig which this week uses two lights shining horizontally on a figure
Yes, Prime Minister
Sunday, September 26th, 2010I went to see Yes, Prime Minister at the Gielgud Theatre in London on the 18th September. It’s a gentle re-imagining of the original rather than a rerun with a different cast, it’s not as radical in its re-imagining as say Battlestar Galactica (thankfully Bernard hasn’t done a Starbuck). However the changes aren’t just the […]