It’s hard rubbish collection in our neighbourhood again. I’m always amazed at the amount of junk the apartment buildings manage to vomit up onto the foot path. My friend Tim found an arm off a wooden cactus decoration. Apparently two separate junk piles were sprouting wooden cacti. I love this sort of bizarre repetition. I […]
Monthly Archives: September 2004
Droog design and the bootleg objects project.
I’ve just been in Sydney for the weekend and had an opportunity to go browsing through some good book shops. I came across the new book by Droog Design, simply droog. I hadn’t looked at Droog closely before now, but I was aware that their work was probably relevant to my masters research (and I […]
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An mMa LOG
Along with providing internet browsing for the CLUBS project multipleMISCELLANEOUSalliances, I was asked by KNOTWORK (a collaboration between Mick Douglas and Katie Bowman) to set up a program that would allow them (and other artist and visitors to CLUBS) to add text to a continuos, scrolling list. Basically a text log. I decided to use […]
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Two drives on a PowerBook IDE bus?
I thought I’d try attaching two drives to the internal IDE bus on my PowerBook (Wallstreet). Using the IDE cable I’d constructed earlier I hooked up a 6GB hard drive set to master and a CD-ROM set to slave. The HD turned up on my desktop, but the CD-ROM didn’t. After trying a heap of […]
Attaching a desktop hard drive to a laptop
** Amendment: Before you embark on this journey (or maybe you’re just spectating?) I should let you know that, thanks to an industrious modder, you can now buy an adapter to connect a desktop drive to a laptop IDE connector. Check out this forum for details. ** I’m using a laptop for my MP3 computer […]