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Terra Plana which aims to be the most sustainable designer shoe brand in the world have opened a new store in Covent Garden. They make superb looking shoes and they are eco-friendly! They’ve also posted their first blog post. Hi Melissa!

This weekend I am going to the Secret Garden Party, a music festival in an idealic setting near a beautiful lake. The websites description is certainly intriguing…

“Imagine…cocktail bars in limos, confession boxes and pulpits, The ‘Fuck Yeah’ Bar, cheerleaders, love potions, The Festival of Fools, Frat House Olympics, Afghan Polo, human curling, tipi saunas, blonde vs brunette room service to your tent, fire-light theatre performances and if our luck holds…boating on the beautiful lake as the sun sets land the band plays on…”

I’m a little worried about the weather, what with flood warnings and everything. I’ve packed my wellies and waterproofs and I’m praying the tent has no wholes. Fingers crossed those guys at the BBC weather room have got it all wrong. I just noticed that there is thunder on Saturday. Oh dear!.

Wired News: “But despite the 21st-century tools that put awesome publishing power in the hands of total novices, the blogger’s ultimate weapon is as old as the first storytellers who sat around prehistoric campfires”.

Today I’m off to have brunch with Pete and Nana from Aganovich & Yung. Their site seems to be down currently but this is the sort of things they do.

[Update: You can now find them at Aganovich]

DCinemaToday: “Barco and Silicon Graphics announce that worldwide media company Deluxe Labs has installed a Barco DP100 2K D-CINE PREMIERE projector at its Hollywood facility through SGI Professional Services”.

Its nice to finally see some press releases from Deluxe and EFilm considering their considerable input into digital cinema recently which, especially in Europe, has remained under the raidar. I get the feeling that we’re going to be seing a lot of very interesting things from these guys in the near future. Key word in this press release: worldwide.

I’ve had many dealings with SGI in the last few months and I contiunue to be extremely impressed. Whether it be in times of exteme time pressure or periods of technical planning their engineers continue to produce the goods without fail. Their share price may be low right now but sending investments their way at this time might just make you some money in the next few years.

There’s a UK podcasters meet up with Adam Curry and the podshow massive happening in London this coming Sunday (3pm) at the Bricklayers affectionally entitled Curry Club. Great pub by the way. Sign up on the Wiki if you want to come. I’ll definitely be there…sounds like fun. Beer and darts…how could I possibly pass it up? I’ll see if any of the ICSelect crowd want to come down.

It’s also the London Marathon on Sunday so good luck to my two most excellent buddies Laurie Bantin and Tony Uberschar of (among other things) the fabulous Terra Plana. May the best man win. As much as I’d like to be there with you I’ll be in a far more sensible place: the pub.

Check out these most superb Terra Plana shoes.

LATimes: ” Historically, the porn industry has adopted new technologies more nimbly than Hollywood”.

DCinemaToday: “The QuVIS Digital Cinema System™ is part of the QuVIS Digital Cinema Solution, which includes the QuVIS Acuity™ and QuVIS QuStudio™ for post production, mastering, and content management, including encryption, secure distribution and key management. QuVIS QuShow™ provides screen management of content for in-theater scheduling and show playlist management; either standalone, or in conjunction with an existing system”.

I am mainly linking to this article from the New Yorker because I haven’t finished reading it and I want to go back to it later. It’s about possible US plans to attack Iran. Pretty scarry stuff.

It’s great to see that my old University Imperial College supports RSS! One for news and one for events.

Looks like Universty College London, where I did my Masters, has one for news too! It’s a little harder to find but it sure is there.

A good YouTube of Peter Jackson picking up his Empire Award together with some out-takes from King Kong.

The Kid from Brooklyn is really not that impressed with Starbucks. If you don’t like the f-word I’d stay away from this but I had to link to it as it just made me laugh so hard when I got into work this morning.

Hey my great friend Val is coming to London next week. I can’t wait. We were at school together in Brussels all those years ago. She’s now a fabulous fashion designer and owns a label called Girls from Omsk. Keep an eye out for her stuff.

Boy it sure has been a busy day, hardly any time even to post little things. If there’s one thing that’s made my life easier today its the wireless headset I just got for my office phone. Sure I look like I’m right out of star trek but when the shit hit the fan it sure made it easier to fix the problem fast.

Heading off to Farbic for a Bloc Party gig and a well deserved beer.

Yesterday I met with Ali McClymont a friend I’ve known since my Uni days. Ali is an artist but has had his fingers deep into technology his whole life and is also a fantastic web and graphic designer. He explained to me that during his time at the Royal College of Art he noticed that the majority of artists there were complete technophobes. This is such a shame because these are really creative people with fantastic ideas.

I told him about Nerd TV interview #9 that Robert Cringely did with Anina who is an international model but also a blogger and mobile technology power user. Its great to see non techies using the web in interesting ways as she is with 360 Degree Fashion. What’s also great is that she’s so keen on showing others in her world that its not so hard after all. Its not that artists are rubbish with computers, its just that they need to be shown a little bit.

Ali is developing a great new site to help artists with their portfolio, biography and blog. It’s powered by Wordpress and he’s got a few tricks up his sleave that sound really interesting to me. This could really be a great community thing. Lets get these artists on the web!

On a similar note I was talking to Toby Richardson, an old School friend, while I was up in Scotland last week. He’s a great musician but has found it hard to find other artists with similar tastes and direction to team up with. It can take several months of playing together to realise that they don’t want the same thing which can be a real waste of time. It strikes me that an artist with a blog would find it much easier to find the right sort of musicians to play with. You can listen to The Summerines new track “I know you well” here.