Home sweet home

I have moved to a new home. Here’s the first view of the living room after an immense day collecting free furniture from friends of family and Glasgow Freecycle members. The white sofa is normally blue; its covers are being washed. The floor lamp is the only thing in the room I’ve actually purchased; it was £15 from Ikea.

More sickly sweet tales from my new apartment soon.

Snapshot: the signwriter’s delight

Seen on the platform of the newly refurbished Queen’s Park station in Glasgow. Perhaps any signwriters reading this could let me know roughly how much it costs to fabricate a metal sign approximately 500mm square with laminate lettering that advises you to find another sign that might be able to tell you something.

Cancelled

I’m ambivalent about graffiti and flyposting. I don’t have a problem with it, but I can appreciate some property owners do. So how does a city council deal with illegal fly posting of commercial events? They can tear them down, and then tear down the replacements, and then tear down the ones that replace them. Or they can slap one of these red stickers over them.

Smarter than your average city council…

Globalisation part II: your local news goes on tour

Following his observations on the evolution in news delivery (i.e. mass redundancies of journalists) at Global Québec and my post about virtual newsroom architecture Steve Faguy makes some interesting observations about what a green screen to do for local newscasts during the regular newscaster’s vacation. If a newscaster can go on holiday and be replaced by another presenter in another province in front a greens creen, why not just get Jamie Orchard to pack a fold up green screen to take with her to Punta Cana?

Snapshot: West Nile Street, Glasgow

Photograph from a recent Flickr set entitled A rooftop flâneur in Glasgow, August 2008.