dorian moore : digital media technologist

they are what is left after we have stopped thinking.

Something said elsewhere reminded me of this postcard my mum sent me in 1997. I've had it by my desk ever since, and is an adage I remind myself of often, one of my tenets in life. It was even my .sig for a while.

Opinions are the mind's way of making dung, they are what is left after we have stopped thinking.

I wondered who had originally said it, and so did a search: no references. Anyone? perhaps it was just the typographers - Typochondriacs, whoever they are/were - thoughts. It seems this card is perhaps long forgotten, so I thought I'd post it and save it. And the nice message from my mum - 'another obscure bit of designer typography for you'....

See also:

Opinions are like assholes; everyone has one and most are full of shit.

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  design: typochondriacs, 1997

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  Words: Alison Leeper, 1997

Tags : design typography,
Posted by Dorian Moore on Friday, May 9, 2008 at 15:22 GMT
Last modified Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 14:29 GMT

My friend Sonja has started selling her loving hand crafter jewellery on-line, go check it out and buy something JewelleryWorks

Posted by Dorian Moore on Friday, April 11, 2008 at 13:09 GMT

Via mobile phone

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Posted by Dorian Moore via mobile phone on Saturday, March 29, 2008 at 20:16 GMT

petition against extending the terms of copyright on recorded music

I'm all for artists being able to survive from their endevours, but copyright extensions aren't helping them, just big businesses.

http://soundcopyright.eu/

via http://www.openrightsgroup.org/

Posted by on Friday, February 29, 2008 at 00:00 GMT

watch and (eventually) listen to Study In Keith, a nice example of mathematical music that is composed in front of your use the Impromptu programming environment.

[via James]

Posted by Dorian Moore on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 16:27 GMT

Congratultations to Nina and Karen of somewhere for winning the Northern Art Prize... and obviously I'm basking somewhat vicariously in this 'cos I work with them on a few projects.

Posted by Dorian Moore on Friday, January 18, 2008 at 10:58 GMT

Karen just sent me a link to www.botanicus.org with regards to sourcing imagery for work we are doing on the Grizedale Arts website, for visual reference. It's full of scans of out of copyright books from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library, and it's full of wonderful things.

Botanicus is a freely accessible, Web-based encyclopedia of historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library. Botanicus is made possible through support from the W.M. Keck Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
www.botanicus.org

Posted by Dorian Moore on Saturday, January 12, 2008 at 13:22 GMT

And today could well be it's 100th Birthday: http://www.therestisnoise.com/2007/12/100-years-of--1.html.

Let's hear it for atonality, let's hear it for Schoenberg

Tags : music experimental, atonality, Schoenberg,
Posted by Dorian Moore on Monday, December 17, 2007 at 09:18 GMT

Some live footage of Voice Of The Seven Woods them at The Local in Crouch End last month.

• Voice Of The Seven Woods @ The Local - First track
• Voice Of The Seven Woods @ The Local - Second track
• Voice Of The Seven Woods @ The Local - Third track

Tags : music video, voice of the seven woods,
Posted by Dorian Moore on Thursday, November 15, 2007 at 15:51 GMT

Films: http://www.somewhere.org.uk/almanacfilms
Project: http://www.somewhere.org.uk/almanac

Project Summary

The Almanac project involved collecting time lapse photography from 5 sites, over the course of a year. These images are used to generate 1 minute video sequence that is shown each day on the main screen at Cinema City in Norwich. The video sequence is specific to the current date, and the site displayed is picked at random from the selection available.

This project has been going on for 4.5 years, and is now finally installed and running in the cinema. The project was initially commissioned solely for presentation for the cinema, but we have added a web presence for the videos at http://www.somewhere.org.uk/almanacfilms where each days film is posted after it has been generated for the cinema.

You can find out more information on the background to the project on the main Almanac site on somewhere's website.

My Role

I've been involved since the early stages of the project in advising on how to manage the collection, recording and storage of images, creating test versions and finally building the end database and software to generate the video clips which are displayed in the cinema, and to dynamically create and upload versions to the project website.

Posted by Dorian Moore on Thursday, November 15, 2007 at 09:24 GMT