Social Media Week

We are all Nathan Barley now. What once was satire is now generally acceptable. Idiotic memes disperse to become the new advertising. What provoked ridicule is really cool. Everyone twitters into the ether, replacing words in sitcom titles with the word “knob”. Everyone posts their photos on Facebook and their videos on YouTube: we are all “self-facilitating media nodes” now. Despite this, Social Media Week is still a phrase that makes lips curl with derision for the majority of the population. For most of us, social media is an adjunct to life not a thing-in-itself.

16 Oct 2011

Typographical Self-Portrait without a Crown

06 Aug 2011

Nod Pal Redux

Today I saw my old nod pal for the first time in two years. He was distributing Christian flyers next to the statue of Donald Dewar on Buchanan Street, said hello, and took the opportunity to ask me if I believed in God. I hemmed and hawed, muttering something about being an agnostic — embarrassed by my lack of interest in spiritual matters. In return, he gave me this terrible clip art flyer depicting a pretty accurate version of my life (apart from the football):

I made my excuses to my nod pal and went to see the decadent sex comedy, Horrible Bosses. It was horrible and reminded me that I make a lot more mistakes than forgetting the big G.

31 Jul 2011