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On art theft and its detection.
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Incl nice anatomy of the opening scene of Hitchcock's Lifeboat.
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Email re Foucault's Pendulum: "Dear Mr. Lenssen, if in 1984 there was Google I would have written a different novel. Yours, Umberto Eco"
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On computer technology, the internet community and processes of cultural change. Via http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2003_05_31_index.html#200369030 , itself an example of mild apophenia (the subject of F's P).
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The gegenschein ("counter-glow") is sunlight back-scattered off small interplanetary dust particles. Cf "the glory".
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"I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny little pieces of music [...] Then when I'd finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were like three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time."
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Artist, working in video, paper, painting... Met with James Jessop at Tufnell Park's serendipitous meetup nexus, Sainsburys Local.
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"The universal human urge to play – and how it relates to the way we design our technology, our environments and our future"
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"to discover in the course of research some engaging detail we know can be put into a story where it will do some good can hardly be classed as a felonious act - it is simply what we do."
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