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StephenBoydDavis: March 2010
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Monday, 29 March 2010. I wish I had known this about drawing. A recent conversation on the JISC Drawing Research list. Led me to write down what bothered me about the way I was taught drawing at Camberwell School of Art and Crafts (as it then was) in the 1970s. One particular drawing tutor used to stand behind me and stare morosely at my work. After an interminable wait she would sigh and say, 'That's not very honest, is it? Drawing tries to construct something which produces a response in the viewer tha...
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StephenBoydDavis: May 2010
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Thursday, 20 May 2010. Is an optical illusion first described by Professor Richard Gregory. His colleague observed this effect in the tiles of the wall of a café at the bottom of St Michael’s Hill, Bristol. See. Wikipedia article on the illusion. Hard on the death of Jacques Bertin. Richard Gregory’s death on 17th May has just been announced. An esteemed scientist, he had a remarkable ability to make his knowledge accessible, most notably in Eye and Brain: the psychology of seeing. Saturday, 15 May 2010.
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StephenBoydDavis: Millibands' weaknesses
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Saturday, 15 May 2010. How Edward Miliband voted on key issues since 2001:. Voted very strongly for replacing Trident. Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws. Voted very strongly for allowing ministers to intervene in inquests. Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war. Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards. How David Miliband voted on key issues since 2001:. Voted very strongly for replacing Trident. Voted very strongly for the Iraq war. View my complete profile.
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StephenBoydDavis: Being and nothingness: Laurie Taylor has a go
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Thursday, 6 May 2010. Being and nothingness: Laurie Taylor has a go. Laurie Taylor’s parodic column on the back of Times Higher Education this week highlights events at Middlesex. Further coverage is at:. Hell no we won’t go. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Being and nothingness: Laurie Taylor has a go. Philosophy petition exceeds 10000. Middlesex University closes Philosophy. View my complete profile.
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StephenBoydDavis: September 2009
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Thursday, 24 September 2009. Computers are systematic machines – though the question of whether they are inherently limiting has been debated since the protocomputing of Babbage and Lovelace. Since programmes are so easily conceived as sets of rules and mechanisms for applying them, there seems a particular tendency when play is offered though digital systems to opt for those forms of play which are already most systematised. They favour what Callois termed ludus. Eco, U. (1979) The role of the reade...
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StephenBoydDavis: Nike, Hackney and Alec Davis
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010. Nike, Hackney and Alec Davis. The Hackney logo on sports and fashion items. From Hackney local government website. A couple of years ago I was phoned by someone on behalf of Hackney council in North London, wanting to know the role of my father, Alec Davis, in the design of the borough’s logo in the mid-1960s. Hackney’s report: History of Hackney’s logo. It includes a short interview with me and a photo of Dad and me that I provided:. BBC: Hackney wins logo row with Nike.
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StephenBoydDavis: Richard Gregory (1923-2010)
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Thursday, 20 May 2010. Is an optical illusion first described by Professor Richard Gregory. His colleague observed this effect in the tiles of the wall of a café at the bottom of St Michael’s Hill, Bristol. See. Wikipedia article on the illusion. Hard on the death of Jacques Bertin. Richard Gregory’s death on 17th May has just been announced. An esteemed scientist, he had a remarkable ability to make his knowledge accessible, most notably in Eye and Brain: the psychology of seeing.
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StephenBoydDavis: December 2009
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Thursday, 31 December 2009. Wild optimism about new technologies. New technologies are often greeted by wild optimism which later seems misplaced. Here is an extract from Our Iron Roads of 1852, extolling the moral benefits of the railways:. The individual benefits conferred by the facilities of travel now enjoyed are most important. To make the tour of Europe was once regarded as essential to the completion of the education of a gentleman; and still very many will declare, with old Du Bartas :—.
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StephenBoydDavis: August 2010
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010. Nike, Hackney and Alec Davis. The Hackney logo on sports and fashion items. From Hackney local government website. A couple of years ago I was phoned by someone on behalf of Hackney council in North London, wanting to know the role of my father, Alec Davis, in the design of the borough’s logo in the mid-1960s. Hackney’s report: History of Hackney’s logo. It includes a short interview with me and a photo of Dad and me that I provided:. BBC: Hackney wins logo row with Nike.
