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Matt Smith joins Orbital on stage at Glastonbury 2010 to perform Doctor? – the best version of the Doctor Who theme since Delia Derbyshire’s groundbreaking original.
I love how Matt drops into character as the Doctor, chuckling with glee as he joins Orbital.
My daughter, a budding Dr Who fan, loved this and was most upset the BBC doesn’t use it as their TV title music.
In recent years I have been fortunate to be able to attend all of the major web conferences: @Media, Future of Web Apps, Future of Web Design and more. However this year with our credit being crunched, and a new cost conscious employer I’m only able to attend one, and for a varierty of reasons, some sentimental, I’ve chosen to attend @Media later this week.
When Future of Web Design took place a few weeks ago I must admit I started to doubt my choice; the buzz on Twitter was huge and very, very positive. It was oddly fun experiencing the conference vicariously via the Tweets, but it made me wish I was there all the more.
A request via Twitter to ‘crash’ the Future of Web Design party turned into an invitation to have dinner with Jon Hicks which, as is the way with web conferences, turned into dinner with Dan Cederholm, Mike Kus, Aral Balkan, Katie Atkinson and Ryan Carson of Carsonified – the organisers of Future of Web Design. I’d met Dan at @Media a couple of years back so it was good to see him again and it was a huge pleasure to meet Aral and Katie for the first time. This is the one of the many things I love about web conferences; the opportunity to meet your web design heroes who are all friendly, open, modest and very happy to chat.
I made it along to the conference party with Jon, and it was fascinating to watch the attendees with the slight detachment of not being one myself. They were literally buzzing with excitement at the day, the sessions and the chance to meet design greats in the Design Clinics, that were part of the conference, and at the party itself.
Over dinner Ryan talked about the Carsonified conferences, and it was clear that he is committed to creating great conferences that are as affordable as possible. Yes they are a business, but his top priorities are quality and affordability for the attendees. I love that Ryan always builds in great opportunities for socialising and ‘networking’; I feel this aspect of conferences is as valuable as the event itself.
If you can attend Future of Web Design I highly recommend it; I know I’ll be there next year.
I was saying just the other day that I couldn’t remember the last time I’d seen a really great advert. Well I’ve just seen the best ad I’ve seen in a long time: Write The Future from Nike.
Sure it’s a huge budget epic full of over-paid footballers, but it captures the passion and the nail biting tension of the 90th minute brilliantly.
As a friend used to say “it only takes a second to score a goal”.
Maths and numbers have never been my strong suit, but after I read Fermat’s Last Theorem I started to see them differently; to see an elegance and beauty I hadn’t before appreciated.
Whilst in Minsk last week my new chum Alec shared this fantastic video with me.
Watch this video and tell me that numbers can’t be art:
Never mind all that election malarkey – Underworld have released their first live music in two and a half years, and it’s available free from Underworldlive until May 20th.
Underworldlive describe Scribble as “a gene-splice between Yellow Magic Orchestra and Grooverider blasting out over the dancefloor at Fabric on a Friday night”.
I was more than interested to see that Scribble is a collaboration with Hospital Records artist High Contrast. You may remember from my 2008 Review that I have a new found love of (fluid) drum and bass; well I’d say 99% of my drum and bass listening is accounted for by Hospital Records artistes. So Scribble sees my favourite band come together with my genre du jour – a truly intriguing combination.
I’ve only given Scribble a few listens so far; my first impression is of a lighter, and dare I say it poppier Underworld – not that this is in anyway a bad thing. It’s got a great hook, and some of those lovely Underworld vox-pop moments – think Two Months Off. What it perhaps lacks are the Karl Hyde stream of consciousness poetry lyrics I love so much.
But this is just one track – a teaser – I can’t wait to hear the rest of the album.