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September 19, 2011

Kings Cross, Rush Hour

I had gone into London while getting over a cold to meet Brian Degger, bio-artist and man of science, who also happens to be one of my closest friends from Newcastle. Having only recently gotten over a major illness, it seems one of the things that isn’t quite ready to go yet is my immune system, which basically gives up at the slightest hint of disease.

In fact, I had been in bed for two days before seeing Brian, and I was unprepared for how ill I would be feeling. I didn’t get much of a chance to make any drawings, as I was struggling to keep up with Brian as he made arrangements. Dagnammit, immune system. I made my excuses and left early, but I had a chance to draw the crowd at Kings Cross on the way home (whilst being given a suspicious eye by entire family sitting next to me – erk!).

January 22, 2009

Back to Work

The past few weeks have been an excruciating battle against my attention span, as I have attempted to hand in several really important pieces of work for my university course.

However, with that hand in comes the period where I can actually readjust and get back to work. And I kind of think that there is a lot of work that can be done now.

Firstly, the main core of my work this year – my university project that will feed into and fuel the Unnamed Laboratory project. Over the next few days I’m supposed to be doing a lot of reading, related to a definition of New Media, and then after that I’m heading off to Berlin for a period of research.

This is all very exciting, but the Unnamed Laboratory project is something that’s going to take longer than just a few months at a university. And that means that I’ll be sorting out this website to make sure the aims of the project can be represented in the best way.

I’m also pleased to announce that I’ve been joined in the project by Brian Degger, who is a long-term collaborator. While the description of the project is still a bit nebulous, we’ll be drafting a document to explain what’s going on, the work we’ve already undertaken, and what we plan to do next.

April 4, 2008

Training Into the Wind

Click here to see the map I’m talking about.

Being offically ‘old’ this year, it’s my ambition to ride the route know as the coast to coast before I become thirty. As part of that ambition, myself, Alan, and Brian did a training ride today along some of the excellent cyclepaths in the area. We were riding into the strong headwinds on the entire trip out, giving us an average speed of about 10mph, and at one point one of those old gnarly cyclists with legs like granite sped past us.

(I think we got pwned, but Brian says it’s something to look forward to – being old gnarly cyclists, that is, not being pwned)

On the way back we stopped off for a beer and burger combo at a Lloyds sports bar on Newcastle’s Quayside. Although it was only midday, already there was a hen party wearing masks at the bar. I felt a little self-conscious in my cycling gear, but mainly knackered.

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