words ‘n stuff

A prediction

April 17, 2005

I had a vision today. I saw my future. It was amazing – really clear, precise, accurate and other tautologies. I have no doubt that this premonition will prove to be 100% accurate. It involves typing. A lot of typing. Huge amounts of typing. And possibly RSI. You see, I kinda got this literary agent, […]

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Who owns your portfolio? – A look at IP for designers

April 12, 2005

My latest article about intellectual property, copyright and Creative Commons for web designers is out today in Issue 4 of Design In-Flight. Here's an excerpt: Who owns your portfolio? It might seem logical that you own the designs you create; but it's not always true. With the advent of the first graphical internet browser came […]

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Who knows?

January 31, 2005

Back in August I submitted my script to the Zoetrope Screenplay Contest. I then forgot about it. A few days ago I remembered that the winners will be announced on 1 Feb. I don't really think I stand that much of a chance of winning – my script is very British and there's a reason […]

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Not your average blogger

January 8, 2005

Earlier in the year I had the pleasure of writing for the inaugural edition of Design In-Flight, an online PDF magazine for designers. My feature, It’s not just all pretty pictures, took a look at how content affects web design, navigation and page layout and I'm happy to say that you can now dowload it […]

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Teatime of the Dead

October 30, 2004

The day has come. The day has gone. And my mental state is still somewhere between 'squeeee!' and 'oooooh!'. Now, we all know that I don't deal well with fan/star situations, we all know that I have a perfectly healthy and not in the least bit obsessive interest in Shaun of the Dead, and we […]

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Yes! Yessss!! Yeeeesssssss!!!!

October 12, 2004

Guess who's gonna be in the same room as – yes, that's right, physically in proximity to – Messers Wright and Pegg? Yup! Me!! FRI 29 OCT Curzon Soho Screen 3; 1.30-2.45pm (£6/5) Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright: a cult comedy class on Shaun of the Dead Since their smash hit Shaun of the Dead, […]

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10,000 words! Sadly, all of them are 'the'

October 11, 2004

Erm, ok, so what day are we? Monday… Right, yes, good. It's all starting to blur one day into another here. I have essentially spent my days writing, or thinking about writing, or thinking that I should be writing. Finished the treatment and decided not to bother workshopping it. Whilst logic dictates that it's a […]

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A wee post before I get down to work

October 7, 2004

Hijacked Kate's broadband connection just so that I could get a blog fix. Hoorah for ethernet cables, I say. If you're curious, the treatment for the next script is coming along nicely. Finished the first draft on Tuesday, started to mindmap it yesterday and that's bringing to the fore all the structural flaws which are, […]

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How's that for a slice of fried gold?

September 20, 2004

Warning: ***Spoilers. But only little ones.**** Ok… so we all know I'm obsessing over Shaun of the Dead right now, and obviously it's not everyone's cup of tea, but to give myself a bit of a change I decided tonight to watch About A Boy, which I'd picked up in a three-for-18-quid deal on Saturday. […]

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Building work has begun

September 18, 2004

Just started drafting out a prose version of Screenplay #3, or a 'treatment' as it's called. It's funny how it doesn't matter how long you spend looking at the plans and thinking about the design, it's not until you start digging the foundations that you really start to get a feel for how the house […]

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Algo a cambio de nada. El proyecto de audiolibro de Free Culture

September 3, 2004

Javier Candeira has translated my Free Culture AudioBook essay into Spanish: Algo a cambio de nada. El proyecto de audiolibro de Free Culture. This is really very cool. It's free culture in action. This blog has an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons licence, so it's good to see someone making use of those freedoms. Maybe this is […]

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An appropriate abandonment

August 26, 2004

So that's it. Tag. “Finished”. The last week or so I have been pouring over my screenplay, Tag, trying to make it the best I can make it without a major rewrite. It's not finished – it'll never be finished, not even if it's ever made. But the time has come to abandon it, pretend […]

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Form, format and story

August 5, 2004

When I started writing my first feature film script in July last year, I didn't have a clue what I was doing. I knew the story I wanted to tell, having lived with it lurking in my mind for over two years, but I didn't know how I should tell it. What I did was […]

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Oh, it's old news now, but hell, I'll blog it anyway

August 2, 2004

The most inspired post by Hugh McLeod ever, amongst some pretty damn inspired stuff, is his thread on 'How To Be Creative'. I was going to blog it a week ago when it was fresh, but I kinda got too busy and didn't. Now it's everywhere and I'm late, again, and he's been adding essays […]

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It came to me in the shower

July 28, 2004

I wish I had a waterproof computer and wifi in the bathroom. I seem to get lots of ideas whilst in the bath or shower which often cut short said ablutions so that I can go and write stuff down before I forget it. Maybe I need some sort of voice-activated dictation machine. Or an […]

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