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Forking hell! OSX, PHP, GD, Freetype problems? Read this...
So, I was trying to make a set of Moo cards, using the MOO API, as part of The Guardian's first ever Hack Day. It's very easy and fun to use, and I enjoyed the learning process of formatting the images and data and submitting the constructed XML to MOO to print the cards. But......
Posted on November 16, 2008 8:52 PM | Tagged with: moo php gd freetype code internet osx
Walter Sickert - The Camden Town Nudes
Walter Sickert's "Camden Town Nudes" are being displayed together at The Courtault Institute, within Somerset House. This short series of gloomy, ambiguous paintings displays a remarkable atmosphere of listlessness, exhausted prostitutes in dull, grubby rooms. I had thought they were......
Posted on November 18, 2007 11:07 AM |
Georg Baselitz
Georg Baselitz likes drawing dicks, doesn't he? Men with their dicks out. Brendan Behan with his big dick out. Brendan Behan with his little dick out. An unidentified pervert with his dick. A scrawled, but identifiable, Hitler with his dick......
Posted on November 18, 2007 10:36 AM | Tagged with: art,neo-expressionism,royalacademy
Guardian Newsroom - Martin Rowson
I don't want to come across like a company man, but I feel the need to recommend a rather special serrvice provided by The Guardian to employees and the public alike. The Guardian Newsroom is a publicly accessible exhibition centre and archive situated directly opposite the Guardian's offcies in Farringdon. ...
Posted on August 28, 2007 1:11 PM |
Hogarth at Tate Britain
First rule, as ever, is don't go to this exhibition on a Saturday. Small, detailed prints and engravings and large, bustling crowds do not mix. The prints themselves, though, are outstanding....
Posted on April 11, 2007 11:42 AM |
Itchy Riga finger
I went to see Turner’s “Blue Rigi” at Tate Britain yesterday. I don’t know if it’s worth 5 million quid, but it is astonishingly good...
Posted on March 8, 2007 5:35 PM |
Just one Canaletto...
Canaletto's panoramic paintings of London are awesome. I've seen some of his stuff at the National Gallery before, and always thought that they resembled architect's technical drawings (this is a good thing). At the Dulwich Picture House's exhibition of his work in London between 1750 - 60, we get to see the preliminary sketches alongside the finished works, and this apparent scientific accuracy is on display more than ever....
Posted on February 3, 2007 11:52 PM |
