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digital media · pictures · videos · weird · interesting · the past · the present · the future · the arts · tipsThe Guardian Culture Professionals Network recently asked arts marketers/PRs to tell them which words they'd like to see banned from press releases. I'd say the list also applies to all arts copy.
The list was presented by the Guardian as a fancy word cloud, but I thought it would be more useful as a plain text list. Here it is, with the most hated words and phrases at the top.
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There's still about a month to go until this year's Culture Hack Scotland event in Glasgow, and I'm learning to code. Again.
I've been coding since I was 8 or 9 years old, but it's been a long while since I've built anything that handles graphics - not since the heady days of QBASIC, in fact. Since then, I've been through Visual Basic, then on to PHP and other web-based shenanigans. However, Processing - a language which seems to basically be a simplified front for Java - has got me back into the graphics-based fun that first got me interested in programming.
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Today I received the two copies of Paul Screeton's 'Tales of the Hexham Heads' I had ordered a few weeks ago from the printers. These are the only two copies of this edition in existence - it was a private project to convert the original, typewritten manuscript - with the author's permission - into a lovely, properly-typeset hardback book.
The project grew out of my interest in the tale of the Hexham Heads, two odd, carved heads discovered in a back garden in the Northern English town of Hexham. Wherever the heads went, strange phenomena followed - including sightings of a half-wolf, half-human entity.
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