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Monthly Archives August 2010

Make My Pano now

Pano is an iPhone app. It stitches together the photos you take to make fantastically compelling panoramas. I’ve developed an unhealthy obsession with Pano and a lot of the pics I upload to my Flickr stream are now Panos. They’re fascinating and uncanny and I’ve been wondering what actually happens when you make a panorama [...]

Posted 20 August 2010 † Steve Bowbrick § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Making books

Marvellous. A Mexican letterpress book publisher in action. Something immensely satisfying about the integrity and sufficiency of the process. Can media production be so self-contained now? I think processes leak and overlap too much now. It’s by typometro via Erik Spiekerman’s blog.

Posted 09 August 2010 † Steve Bowbrick § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , ,

Really suffering for your art

Everyone says music is getting more physical again. We continue to get our daily sounds from ever more insubstantial sources, floating above us like those glittering landscapes in Neuromancer, but we’re going to more concerts and festivals than ever and buying more stuff while we’re at it (merch. fancy limited editions. Even musical instruments are [...]

Posted 06 August 2010 † Steve Bowbrick § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , ,

Taking a tin opener to a BBC meeting

There’s a big quarterly departmental meeting at BBC Audio & Music Interactive (which is where I work). We call it the ‘departmental’ and it’s always a pretty big deal – the magnificent Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House is the venue and it goes on all morning, spilling out into surrounding conference rooms for smaller sessions. [...]

Posted 03 August 2010 † Steve Bowbrick § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , ,