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This Is Not A Bubble

deek — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:07:50 +0000

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-james-hansen/twenty-years-later-tippin_b_108766.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/06/climatechange.scienceofclimatechange

Made this Seesmic video about a month ago. It’s still relevant. Do you think we are in a bubble? I don’t. If capitalism doesn’t apply the brakes, we will eat the world.

Boston: Behind the Scenes

deek — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:42:01 +0000

I went to Boston, USA, to visit my friend Sonia, and to attend PodCamp Boston. It was an entirely different kind of new media affair from PodCamps EU, UK or Ireland. Three days long, very populated, highly sponsored, over-organised, situated in a huge convention centre in the old dockland area of South Boston in a remote, cavernous modern building devoid of any decent nutrition, much of the presentation was well-meaning and educational, but the event was nonetheless mostly about people self-consciously attempting to produce meaningful content which will vie with the Big Boys and wondering when that is actually going to happen. (Stage whisper: not any time soon…) The highlight was Lolsaurs, in which the lunatics took over the asylum.

I kept a pretty low profile, which suited me this time, and was pleased just to hang out, catch up with old friends, and make new friends.

This is a 54 minute camera phone movie, shot on my (now elderly) Sony Ericsson k800i, best served with a squeeze of lemon.

Everyday Haiku

deek — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:33:29 +0000

what a lot of fun
writing haiku ev’ry day
while i blog elsewhere

Un-Haiku

deek — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:41:00 +0000

It’s times like this when I’m very glad I have more than one outlet for personal expression. I decided end of September that I would write one haiku a day during October in Blog of Funk #2. Only long-time regular readers will recognise that this is B.O.F. #2. The rest of the world doesn’t need to know that I stopped the blog, made changes, and restarted it, and I don’t care to concern myself with telling them. Compared to the mighty, sprawlingly ambitious Blog of Funk, DeekDeekster.com is a more casual affair with added podcast, and it mops up the remaining creative gravy.

As a result of the haiku writing, I became a member of this group blog where I am able to post haikus along with a bunch of other wordsmiths. I pledged to observe the American obscenity rules and avoid swearing, sexual references, Mexicans and Canadians.

But, fate plays its part, and while it suits me to stick to seventeen syllables per day – I enjoy the discipine, adopting a structure for a month is something I have done ever since starting to blog – things are happening which I want to write about.. long live Deek Deekster, he made me into who am I not today.

I lost my gold fish, and a haiku wasn’t enough. It’s a hollow antique from Kings Lynn, a fisherman’s charm designed to keep sailors from drowning. Hollie gave it to me, she the most tormented of all my lovers, the biggest and maddest of them all. She’s dead now – didn’t even reach 30 years old – and wearing that I felt somehow an element of her strong protection. I lost it sometime this morning, dressed in running gear, walking with GGF to school, then jogging back. The water was off this morning – I was torn between the need to get the supply re-established and wanting to retrace my 2 miles of steps in a futile search. I did go and look, but too late – if it was visible, someone picked it up. Gold and silver too attractive a proposition to ignore for a passer-by. It’s either submerged beneath wet leaves, or in a stranger’s pocket.

It is the end of an era. I am moving from this flat very soon, in a matter of weeks and this kind of underlines it. I keep reaching for my small fish, familiar on the chain around my neck, which now feels empty, like this home soon will be.

Kilkenny

deek — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:12:00 +0000

I went to Kilkenny, Ireland at the end of September, hung out with a bunch of friends and generous new media people, and made this 30 minute movie about the experience.

Check out the photos here.

Sheringham Road Light

deek — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:29:43 +0000

At this time of year the angle of the sun changes and Islington’s long Victorian streets look quite astonishing.

I made this video in Sheringham Road, N7.

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