There is beauty in this world, old and new, and while it may be argued that nature’s paintbrush is more graceful than Man’s chisel, I have a love for Things People Made.
In this post I’d like to talk about the appreciation of objects in their utility and elegance, the sensations they inspire and the impact […]
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Dear Senator Conroy,
As the subject of internet safety is as hot a topic in the Netherlands, my home country, as it is in yours, I have closely followed the progress of your fabulous efforts to protect Australia’s children from the exigencies of the modern World Wide Web. While I applaud how close you’re coming to […]
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Note: Google Wave is currently in Developer Preview, meaning it’s not yet even beta, and only has a few thousand users. The current user experience is not representative of the stated vision, so for the sake of clarity I’ve taken some liberties in this part by including functions which currently have not yet been implemented […]
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Faster, stronger, better, more.
As a New Media fag I’m all about doing more things faster, and the Rasmussens and their team clearly love me a great deal. While Wave is an open protocol and platform, and anyone will be able to build their own Wave server with their own interface, Google’s Wave interface is fast.
Not […]
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The Rasmussen Brothers, who sound like a zing-hip edge-jazz outfit that only really cool people have heard about, understand something that few technology inventors focus on too much: they have no control over the future. Most innovators like to own their invention and would love to be the King of the Thing that becomes hugely […]
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Explaining Wave is a difficult thing. Going by bullet-points, knee-jerk reactions include understimation, confusion and dismissal. I tell you plainly, therefore, that Wave is the shit and to keep that in mind as you read this. I promise, pinky swear, that there will be honest critical evaluation later. For now, just go with it, ‘kay?
I will […]
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Henry Ford once said: “If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse.” Sage wisdom, that. I’m a sucker for Apple products because they consistently give me the little thrill of experiencing that someone, be it an architect, engineer or godly designer, gave great thought to making this feature or […]
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I’m a New Media Guy. I’m easily excited by cool innovations in human communication. Blog–Journal, Face–Tube, Twit–Space, I love ‘em — and seeing new stuff emerging day and night keeps my hipster soul as happy as a pig in poo.
Some say people are getting dumber; I say that communication is becoming more egalitarian, that the dumb […]
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This article first appeared in FANG Vol. 1 in 2005.
There was once a time, just between the rise of the fast-food, fast-everything economy in the West in the seventies and the flourishing of the modern Internet in the ‘90s, when the distribution of one’s art through amateur media was possible, although it wasn’t easy. The availability of […]
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I’ve been quite unfair, in this series (of which this installment is the last) in sketching a Jekyll & Hyde scenario of the Writer vs the Not Writer, because we’re all a bit of both. At different times, for different reasons. There’s a sliding scale between one and the other, see. The goal of these […]
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- Astonishment.
- Photitos!
- FurRag - beta.
- Logo get!
- Emancipate the analogue!
- I am a social-networking SEX GOD.
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Scary!
- Nominated for Ursa Major Awards! Fuck yeah!
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Alex F*cking Vance
Born in Amsterdam to Irish and Indonesian ancestry, Alex is a bizarre amalgamation of cultures, languages and allergies.
A passionate New Media proselyte, Alex explores and abandons new forms of communication with impunity, though he’s never been quite able to shrug off his love of paper, shouting and violent mime.
Currently he runs Bad Dog Books, writes the award-winning adult graphic novel Heathen City, and generally bears the burden of being F*cking Awesome all the goddamn time.
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