by cameron | Jun 25, 2007 | Uncategorized
An Aeron. I want one. I have wanted one for ten years. Now… I think I finally deserve one. I spend all day sitting in front of this PC. I need comfort. I need bounce. I need a little bit of luxury.
Surely… one of you has a bunch of them sitting around at your office, hardly being used, that you picked up cheap after the DC1 crash. Think about donating one to poor me (You have to say those last two words in the voice of Livia Soparano… “oh, pooooor you”). Let me know what time to come around. I’ll meet you at the back entrance. No-one will notice.
by cameron | Jun 23, 2007 | Melbourne, Uncategorized
Last night we attended the opening night of the “New Romantics” ballet in Melbourne. I loved it. I think it’s only the second time I’ve ever been to the ballet and I was totally into it. I especially loved the final act, a ballet called “After The Rain” by New Yrok choreographer Christopher Weeldon. The choreography itself was amazing but the other thing I loved about it was the music – two pieces by composer Arvo Part. I hadn’t heard of Part before but now I’m searching online for his music, especially his Tabula Rasa, Double Concerto for two violins, string orchestra and prepared piano (1977) which was the music behind part one of Weeldon’s ballet. If anyone out there has it and wants to loan it to me, let me know.
I’d definitely go back to the ballet after last night’s experience. I’m probably going to show myself up as the uneducated and uncouth tard that I am here, but the thing that struck me most last night was the almost magical grace and beauty of the dancers movements. Some of the things they were doing were completely physically unfathomable and yet they made it look easy, beautiful and incredibly graceful.
Okay, okay, I know, I’m never going to get that invite to be the arts reporter for New Yorker magazine. I don’t have the vocabulary or knowledge of dance to even begin to describe what I witnessed. All I can say is that it moved me.
And then today I watched Idiocracy and laughed my ass off. Go figure.
by cameron | Jun 21, 2007 | Uncategorized
It’s wonderful how a good edit can make a movie.
Check out these two great edits on YouToob:
The first is the wonderful 7-minute Sopranos. Unfortunately only goes up to the end of the first half of the last series, but still worth watching:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz_Ees_-kE4]
The second is the edited version of The Big Lebowski with only the cuss words left in. Wonderful, truly wonderful.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqtgfjkB6Pg]
by cameron | Jun 19, 2007 | Melbourne, Uncategorized
Anybody out there subscribe to B&T magazine? I think this week’s edition has the “Digital Media” insert again and I’ve written an article on podcasting in it. Let me know if any of you has a copy.
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Oh yeah I’m speaking at Microsoft’s REMIX thing in Melbourne next Tuesday. I’m on the Web 2.0 panel with Brad Howarth, Richard McManus and Ben Barren. Our session is 1.30. Crown Promenade. God knows what Microsoft is doing inviting me to speak at one of their events. I wonder what the legal department thinks about that. Last time I heard, Microsoft employees weren’t even supposed to TALK to me in case I corrupt them. Someone must have forgotten to tell the noob Kordahi.
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by cameron | Jun 16, 2007 | Melbourne, singularity, Uncategorized
Been quiet for the last couple of days. Lots of travel and meetings.
Yesterday, Duncan Riley (aka Michael Arrington’s bitch), Jim Stewart and I spoke on a panel at the evolve conference in Melbourne. The panel was about content anarchy or something. We were the last session of the day and today Kimberley (the event organizer) told us that the audience voted our session the best of the day. I bet she says that to everyone though. Jim says his favourite moment was my dildo reference. Don’t ask. You had to be there.
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Caught a taxi to the airport with Ross Dawson and we had a great chat about the Singularity. Ross looks like an accountant but he’s really a major geek. He’s got a one minute video interview with my ungrateful protégé Rich Giles from his Web 2.0 event in Sydney last week. As usual, he didn’t invite me to speak. Hmph.
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For those of you who can’t get enough of me (which isn’t many of you), I’m on this week’s edition of The Father Bob Show. I’ll be taking over co-hosting the show again for a few weeks while Michaela takes a holiday. Someone want to start a book running on how long it will be before Bob and I get into a screaming argument over the evils of religion?
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What’s Cam reading at the moment, did I hear you ask?
Here’s a quick selection of the latest tomes added to the veritable mountain beside my bed:
by cameron | Jun 14, 2007 | Uncategorized
I’ve got three invites to give away to beta test Spock. First three emails I get with the following subject line, get one:
“Please Mr Cameron sir, you are so mighty and your generosity so bounteous, please sir, may I have a Spock invite?”
