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  • Thoughts on the Midnight Library

    Thoughts on the Midnight Library

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesIn December I read The Midnight Library with ease. It is a lighter book than others and I could see parallels between Midnight Library and The Good Place. Specifically imagine a reality where you get to try reality after reality, after reality until you learn what you needed to learn, before the…

  • Thoughts on the Book Blindness

    Thoughts on the Book Blindness

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI read Blindness last month and finished it yesterday and although it won a Nobel Prize I was not a fan of the book. I haven’t had time to digest it properly yet but I think that it was at a disadvantage. It explores what it would be like to live through…

  • Day Twenty-Six of ORCA in Switzerland – Playing With 360 Video

    Day Twenty-Six of ORCA in Switzerland – Playing With 360 Video

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s Day 26 and today I was playing with 360 video. Specifically I went for a walk in the woods and placed the camera ahead of me to provide people with the opportunity to look around. Doing this is a risky strategy during the pandemic because if you cross paths with anyone…

  • Learning more about Dziga Vertov and his views on cinema

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteDziga Vertov is an interesting personality because of his ideas of the Cinema eye. His notion was that with the cinema eye, the Kino Glaz you could capture life unawares whilst being involved in the creative treatment of actuality. After making some quick money by answering some social networking questions I…

  • The Cult of the Amateur – thoughts on the book

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen I heard with what hate one podcaster talked about the Cult Of The Amateur I told myself that I should read this book because it addresses a question that is at least two hundred years old, mainly the difference between high culture and low culture. High culture is seen as everything…

  • Snowcrash And a Silent Rave

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI spend a lot of time listening to podcasts rather than radio and one of the weekly podcasts I enjoy most is This Week in Media, where some people discuss what’s going on in the media landscape, from how they will only sit in five or six seats out of the…

  • Idlewild

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter having spent the whole night without sleep yesterday my energy levels were low and I decided that I would rest. In doing so I’ve spent quite a bit of time online but I’ve also conclued my reading of Idlewild. I was with a friend and he was looking for post…