:: GussetBLOG ::

:: Saturday, November 01, 2003 ::

Why is it that whenever you go to the BBC News site looking or a particular bizarre story you saw on TV there is no sign of it but you always find and handful of other bizarre wonders?

Toilet farce causes rush hour chaos

Laptop bags go from geek to chic

"The lawyer for the six male contestants had said they were feeling "traumatised" after being duped by Sky One into cuddling and kissing Miriam, who they believed to be a woman."

What is was actually looking for:
Answer To Pets’ Rocket Terror. I was expecting to find some dodgy acoustics when I heard about this but it turns out it's just some good old-fashioned Classical Conditioning.

:: Dan 1.11.03 [Arc]    ::
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Haha, thanks for that Dash, that’s great, despite your little dig.
Just a quick note to justify the existence of GussetBlog. This blog was started as a way for Gusset to communicate with each other and with a few selected friends. It has kind of grown from there to something that has had over 100 unique visitors in the last four days (since I ported to the new domain so traffic is probably down a little) and has got PR companies sending us CD and gig invites for us to review. So for something that started out as a bit of a laugh tacked on to a blatant self promotion web-site it seems to have done quite well.
A quick thank you everyone who reads this that we don’t already know and sorry for all the boring bits!
Oh, and that reminds me, I was talking to Spokes about the this a couple of weeks ago and we were wondering if it would be a good idea to invite a (few?) new people to post here to keep it a bit more fresh. So if anyone reading this thinks they have something to contribute, or knows someone who might, drop me a mail.
Cheers.

:: Dan 31.10.03 [Arc]    ::
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Not that it applies to this page, as it is more than a personal diary (most of the time, ay Dan?) but a friend of a friend wrote Why I Hate Personal Weblogs and then proceeds to quote from it in his own blog!

:: Dash 31.10.03 [Arc]    ::
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I admit I frequently steal links from the Guardians web-watch, but this week's has so much good stuff in it I’m just going to blog the whole page. In particular I recommend the World Heritage Tour site. Note that there is a mistake in the Mapping Media link, this is the correct link.

Google Shortcut Keys. This is a fantastic idea, currently in beta. As far as I can test it works perfectly. Google, please hurry up and implement this one the main site.

National Statistics have given you until 28 November to comment on their plans to integrate data from several government sources (following the 2011 census) for statistical and policy research. The proposal is here. It even admits that combining these data together for these reasons is of a questionable legality that could jeopardise the plan, but hey, the government has eight years to sort out that minor problem.

:: Dan 30.10.03 [Arc]    ::
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I’ve pondered previously on what is the ultimate art form, capable of expressive the most different views, feelings, points and emotions. I’ve always come to the decision that right here and now the answer to that question has to be Film.
OK, so Literature can take you anywhere and explain concepts that would be very difficult in any other form, but thanks to technology Film is catching up fast. If you take out the financial incentive that is behind making most films acceptable to a Hollywood audience I’m sure pretty much any book could be converted to film. Other art forms are easier to pick off. Music can easily be represented on film, music almost always supplements the modern film and modern music is almost always supplemented by film. Painting and Photography are also easily converted, just watch any film with good cinematography to appreciate that, Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, for example, is almost like watching a moving painting. Sculpture is probably the most difficult art form to convert to film, but sculptor-turned-model-maker-turned-director Chris Cunningham proves that this is possible, with films like Flex, Come to Daddy and All is Full of Love.

What I had never considered previously is whether this situation might change in the future. Is there a new medium that may surpass films almost direct link into our two main senses? According to composer Barrington Pheloung (who may be blowing his own trumpet a little as reading between the lines he’s trying to compare himself to Mozart) Games are the new medium that will do this. I can see he has a very good point, and the technology is moving very quickly so it’s is almost impossible to predict where we will be at the end of this century. This article goes partway to explain where we might be going but there is far more potential there than is touched on.

:: Dan 30.10.03 [Arc]    ::
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My life is rated R.
What is your life rated?

:: Dan 29.10.03 [Arc]    ::
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For anyone who’s interested, Slovenia's Uros Umek is playing at Creation in Bistol this Friday. According to the press release I’ve been sent Umek is "a man of some versatility, with a growing catalogue of electro work under his belt, as well as the Neuro project from last year – an impressive take on IDM style material." Sounds interesting, however, the Mute website points out that his latest 12" contains "four groovy phunktastic monstas" and claims he is "Currently the darling of Fergie and Jules on Radio 1" Hmm. So it sound like Creation hasn’t discovered IDM and it will probably be the normal brainless meat-market we know and love. Go if you like drinking larger, staring a women who are wearing next to nothing, drinking larger, listening to repetitive beats, drinking larger and getting into fights. If that’s far to sociable for you then Sex Rules: Fuck buddies is on Channel 4.

:: Dan 29.10.03 [Arc]    ::
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Way Beyond Legal: Links... almost everything you wanted to know!

:: Dash 28.10.03 [Arc]    ::
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Yes, it’s Turner Prize time again. This year they seem to be having trouble showing some of the works on TV due to obscene content, like depicting Death as a naked couple engaged in oral sex, incorporating a vibrator.

'"My five-year-old could have done that" accounts for 41.7% of the criticism'

Presumably the remaining 58.3% claimed their 3 or 5 years olds or their dog could have done it.

:: Dan 28.10.03 [Arc]    ::
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I like odd combos that work really well. So I like beatboxing with a harmonica. Cool.

:: popcorn 27.10.03 [Arc]    ::
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I like the new look, well done.

:: Spokesy 27.10.03 [Arc]    ::
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Ok, ok, so I’ve fucked up the archive. I’ll get to that.

:: Dan 26.10.03 [Arc]    ::
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You may have noticed that the website has been ported to a new server. Please let me know if you have any problems at all with accessing the site/dead links etc.
Cheers.

:: Dan 26.10.03 [Arc]    ::
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