Supa skallen av dig och bete dig som en idiot, och dö när du är 30 och bli geniförklarad, det är enkelt. Men att behålla din talang och förädla den tills du är 89 år gammal, det kräver begåvning. Se till att göra det.
/ Ingmar Bergman (July 14, 1918 – July 30, 2007)
This video installation presents the abstraction and re-organization of the top 25 grossing films of all time (as of March 2001, worldwide box office, not adjusted for inflation). Every frame of each film is subjected to a custom process that determines a grid of four colors most representative of that frame. These simplified versions are re-synched with their unaltered soundtrack and arranged by sales rank left-to-right and top-to-bottom, yielding the animated grid and accompanying chaotic audio.
Very nice, by Jason Salavon.
The top 25 grossing films of all time (as of March 2001, worldwide box office, not adjusted for inflation):
For the 4th year running, POKE will have a stall at the V&A Village Fete. It’s always tons of fun, so I suggest you all cancel whatever plans you might have for Friday the 27th and Saturday the 28th of July and come on down!
V&A and Scarlet Projects present Village Fete, the contemporary take on the traditional English fete. Over 30 of the most inventive and dynamic creative individuals working in the UK today come together to create an extraordinary array of stalls offering games to play and products to win.
In some respects
I suspect you’ve got a respectable side
When pushed and pulled and pressured
You seldom run and hide
But it’s for someone elses benefit
Not for what you wanna do
Until I realize that you’ve realized
I’m gonna say these words to you
You don’t know what love is
You do as you’re told
Just as a child at ten might act
But you’re far too old
You’re not hopeless or helpless
And I hate to sound cold
But you don’t know what love is…
You just do as you’re told
I can see your man
Cant help but win
Any problems that may arise
But in his mind there can be no sin
If you never criticize
You just keep on repeating
All those empty “I love you’s”
Until you say you deserve better
I’m gonna lay right into you
You don’t know what love is
You just do as you’re told
Just as a child of ten might act
But you’re far too old
Your not hopeless or helpless
And I hate to sound cold
But you don’t know what love is
No you don’t know what love is
No you don’t know what love is
You just do as you’re told
You do as you’re told
Yeah
You Don’t Know What Love is (You Just Do As You’re Told) is avaliable on the album Icky Thump
A: Quite a few times during the Silverstone weekend I found myself thinking; “if i only knew this in advance”. Basically, as always with ‘The First Time of Anything’, there were a few things I would have done differently if I only had more information, more facts or more experience.
So, with that in mind, I thought it would be a good idea to communicate to all the people who plan to go to a GP for the first time, the things that I would have liked to have known. Therefore i thought the Q&A format would be more suitable.
A: I would like to highlight three different things that caught me by surprise at my first ever Formula One Grand Prix.
1. The lack of glamour. I don’t know if this was due to the Silverstone circuit or just the glorification from the media. Surely the Monaco GP is a different saga than Silverstone, but I did imagine that the general organisation on any GP would be a bit more spectacular and special.
It was a bit more “just motor racing” than I thought it would be.
If you weren’t prepeared to pay £3.20 per beer; wanted cheesy fat food or weren’t interested in buying merchandise from the teams: you would have almost nothing to do besides waiting or sitting and watching the other events on the track.
2. The enormous presence of sponsors, and mainly Vodafone. Vodafone have literally bought Vodafone McLaren Mercedes. The team merchandise is more Vodafone merchandise than it is a McLaren’s or Mercedes’s merchandise. It’s ridiculous.
They’ve also changed the color of Vodafone, it’s neon orange and not red. On TV it looks red, but in real life it’s neon orange. I’m not to sure that the color on TV is the main and only reason or not. I do find it a bit weird.
Since this was the home GP for Britain’s latest media revenue stream, Lewis Hamilton, the colors of Vodafone were obviously more present than any other, and that might have been why Vodafone felt so dominating. But it isn’t just that. It’s the amount of Vodafone on McLaren. It’s just sooo much. Mclaren has gone from being ‘Bruce McLaren Motor Racing’ to ‘Team McLaren Mercedes’ to ‘Vodafone McLaren Mercedes’. How much do you need to pay to change the initial name of a F1 team?
Vodafone McLaren Mercedes new motor-home is three stories high and is called the “Brand Centre”. First floor is reception area and restaurant, second floor hierarchy; offices and rooms for the two drivers, the third floor belongs to Vodafone.
That’s a big slice of the cake.
3. The noise of a F1 engine. It’s damaging. I have heard they were loud, but I never imagine them being this loud. Especially the first couple of laps, when the gap between each car isn’t that big.
A: Well, the race (obviously). The atmosphere during the build up and during the race, the noise, the true phase of the cars — mind blowing and truly impressive.
But what added sugar on the cake of my first ever GP visit was the guided tour through the Super Auguri F1 garage and paddok area.
Cookie’s flat mate, Eleanor Roome’s brother, Alastair Roome (photo above), works as a hydraulic mechanic in the Super Aguri Team. So thanks to Eleanor, Alastair and Nick Farnhill (who acually asked Eleanor in the first place), Dez and I got a good insight of how a F1 team works and functions.
A Mega Super Duper thanks to the Roome’s & Farnhill and the Super Aguri Team!
This was the first time I have spent time with anyone within a F1 team, so i had sooooo many questions, and each answer Alistar gave lead to more questions. I wished Alistar and I had a lunch or something before the tour, so that I could have focused a bit more on the actual tour and less on the questions and answers.
The wait and the distances. It was a bit similar as recording an music album or a music video — you are there for one main reason, but the time spent on that reason is minimal in comparison to the time surrounding it.
Imagine if you are going on a holiday and the flight there will take longer then the time actually spent at the final destination.
I guess it’s a bit like flying short distance. The trip to the airport, the check-in procedure, security and passport control takes longer then the actual flight itself.
After you have been to a race you understand why Bernie Ecclestone realised in the late 1970s that television rights and F1 seemed a good idea.
Seeing a race live and watching it on TV is two completely different things. I would prefer a combination of both, but if I had to stick to one, I would probably choose the Television. But having said that, I will most probably attend another Grand Prix next year… and I’m thinking Monza.
A: 1. Radio. Friday’s free practice and Saturday’s qualifying was almost impossible to follow in detail. The big screen TV’s on site were too far away so you couldn’t read any times or standings. For the race we bought a radio and tuned in to the race commenting radio channel.
2. Earplugs. Even if we had a radio for the race, when the line-up was streched out so that a car was almost always in the corner we were sitting; you couldn’t hear the radio. I had brought my earplugs, but what would have been good is proper earmuffs, so you could listen to the radio without the noise.
3. Do your homework. It’s not enough knowing how each team’s cars look like and who drives for them; you need to know what color the drivers have on their helmet or you won’t know who’s driving past. It’s not as difficult as it sounds, since you only need to know the color of one of the drivers, e.g; if a Ferrari drives past and the helmet is NOT yellow it’s Räikkönen, otherwise it’s Massa.
4. Camera. Unless you really want to, don’t bring a large camera. I brought Willow’s Canon EOS 400D and Tom Hostler had lent me his EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM Zoom lens. Absolutely brilliant. But the photo opportunity isn’t that great on site. The cars are extremlly fast (as you might imagine) and the fences are high. Tom gave me tips and instruction on where to go to take good shots — Luffield corner is a slow speed corner with low fences — but I never made it to there. Early on, due to the discovery of the bad photo opportunities in combination with a huge turnout in audience, I decided to let my head store the photos for this one. I did try every now and again to capture the moments but failed.
I’m quite sure you can go to a GP and take loads of really nice photos of the circuits, the people etc, but not without compromising your focus. So, maybe if I go again and again and again to Silverstone, I might bring a camera, again, and compromise some of the focus towards capturing memories.
5. Other destination. I think a change of scenery would allow for a greater experience. Living in the UK and going the the UK GP gives less opportunity for new experiences. It might be that the trip to another country would cost more money, but I have a hard time believing that they would charge me £3.20 for a can of beer. As well, It’s not that easy to get to Silverstone, so a trip to another country where the circuit is close to where you’re staying, might even become cheaper.
6. Food. We, Derek McKenna and I, stayed at Nilesh Ashra’s house in Milton Keynes. On Saturday night Nilesh made a tasty curry. Now, I wouldn’t suggest you eat spicy curry the night before race day. Silverstone had good toilet facilities, but I wouldn’t take the risk again. The curry tasted lovely, but came out as fast and spicy as it had got in.
Willow’s older brother, Adam, arrived yesterday to the UK. Adam lives in San Fransisco, and like many many many people living in the US, Adam has an iPhone. Drum roll. So yesterday, for the first time, I got to lay my hands on the iPhone. Drum roll.
So how was it?
Well, to be honest; a bit boring. After have played with it for about 5-10 minutes, I found myself in the kitchen cutting up the onions for the Lasagna.
I am the wilderness locked in a cage
I am a growing force you kept in place
I am a tree reaching for the sun please don’t hold me down
Please don’t hold me down
I am a rolling wave without the motion
A glass of water longing for the ocean
I am an asphalt flower breaking free
But you keep stopping me
Release me
Release me
I am the rain that’s coming down on you
That you shielded yourself from with a roof
I am the fire burning desperately
But you’re controlling me
Release me
Release me
Release Me is avaliable on the album A Song Inside My Head a Demon in My Bed
Will Cheyney took the above photo. Absolutly brilliant. The sign is placed at the end of Fleur de Lis Street in Shoreditch, east London.
So this weekend the Formula 1 circus is coming to the Silverstone circuit north of London, United Kingdom. What makes this weekend a special one is that this weekend i am entering the Formula 1 record books. Oh, yes. It will be the first ever Grand Prix in the history of Formula 1 with a Nicolas Nuzzaci among the audience. Lewis Hamilton is also entering a new record; the youngest British Formula 1 driver seen live by Nicolas Nuzzaci. Yeah, he is re-writing the history books…
So, enough sarcasm. Yes, tomorrow is the first day of three historic days and I’m looking forward to it. But, what I haven’t manage to do is to be in top trim. I’ve had a cough for 2 weeks, and as soon as it started to wear off I caught a nasty cold from Willow. So yeah; I’m ill. Hopefully it won’t be unbearable.
I’m going up there tomorrow morning with Derek McKenna. Nick Farnhill is also joining in on the race day, but Nick is not sitting with Dezza and me at Woodcote corner, he have manage to get a special pit lane ticket trough, and to, the Super Aguri team… Yeah, he’s lucky. But he is sharing some of the love; Dezza and I will (most probably) get a guided tour through their pit lane garage on Saturday!
In between all the racing, we gonna reside at Nilesh Ashra and Jo’s house in Milton Keynes. The weather is suppose to be shit, but I’m hoping we’ll have the luck on our side.
Of cause I will hand in a full report after this historic weekend. It will probably take a few days until I’m ready to write down all my thoughts reflections.
It’s getting late and It’s time i pack my bag… do i need to bring anything? I can just buy a red outfit there…
I’m actually just sitting around waiting for my trimmer to charge enough power so I can finish the shave I started an hour ago. Thinks it about time. Think it has enough battery now to do the final lap. Let’s find out.
In a few minutes I’m gonna change the DNS settings on this domain and point it towards a new home. This means that within the next 48 hours or so (maybe less, probably more) this website is on hold and anything added (comments etc) during this time might disappear.
UPDATE: The move has now been completed. To all curious readers, the switch was from Dreamhost to Media Temple. The two main reason for the move was; 1) I find it easier to administrate multiple domains on MT. 2) I already share a ‘Code Monster’ plan with my brother on DH and feel no need to have a ‘Code Monster’ and a ‘Crazy Domain Insane’ plan running.