Month: January 2011
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Data Reductions Hurt Mobile Media
The news that T-Mobile is dropping its mobile data usage limit to 500MB from 1GB is not great news. This is not just about one operator, but a trend across the industry. While T-Mobile says that “over 90%” of its customers use less than this a month (does this include customers without smartphones?), it’s not…
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Television I Have Been Watching
A few programmes that did or didn’t entertain me in the last few days: Penn and Teller’s Fool Us was everything The Magicians wasn’t. With the straight magic show being considered far too straightforward for a 21st century audience, producers are constantly looking for spins that’ll make programming “acceptable”. Sadly, for BBC1’s The Magicians, the…
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Analogue Afternoon
Sadly my DSLR is winging its way back to Sony to be repaired. I could have reverted to my old camera, but there were a shots at the end of a pack in my Polaroid, so I thought I’d shoot them. Clearly they’re well out of date and these images have been tidied up digitally…
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The Ashes on the Radio
There are probably few who’d argue that Test Match Special is an incredible institution. For many, despite Sky’s exemplary coverage, it’s far preferable (for many more, it’s the only way to get live broadcast coverage of cricket). It’s just quite hard trying to sync up Sky pictures with TMS audio. The only way I can…
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Photographic Exhibitions
I went to a couple of different photographic exhibitions the other day – although only a hundred metres or so separated them – they were massively disparate in style. The V&A is hosting Shadow Catchers: Camera-less Photography until February 20. Using a variety of styles and techniques, the five artists featured work directly onto photographic…
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Some Christmas Television
Overall I thought that there was some pretty good stuff on at Christmas. I can’t claim to have watched all of it; just a little here and there. But here, in no particular order, are the things that have stood out for me over the period: The Magicians. I love magic on the television, and…
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Happy New Year
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Empty Shop Fronts
My local council has an initiative called “Dressing Vacant Shops” which I only noticed today. Of course it’s somewhat ironic that the photos they’re using are of shops of the sort that have basically been driven out of business by supermarkets and large chains that make too many of our High Streets look identical.