by Tim Baggaley
I got into acting by accident. Literally. I fell off my motorcycle and lost my left arm. Being an amputee was going to lead to some big changes in my life but I never guessed it would turn me into an actor It was 2001 when I suffered a spill causing several life-threatening injuries and […]
Read MoreThe Revillos raided their attic to find three, new albums of punk pop There’s still life in the back catalogue for The Revillos. When the 1980s chart-topping sci-fi future-naughts wanted to travel back in time, we were more than happy to travel with them In amongst a haul of cardboard boxes, the band found they […]
Read More‘Tools For Learning’ – one of four short animations made for the CSP for use on (the social media platform formerly known as) Twitter This animation was one of a sequence of four that we produced for the Chartered Society of Physiology We produced the illustrations used in this project with Affinity’s Designer and Publisher […]
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Zoom’s developers have, no doubt, been burning the midnight oil fixing the security and privacy flaws in their programming and a number of updates have been made. But is it still risky to use? Well, yes. Zoom’s popularity is, in no small part, down to its intuitive and simple user interface but the question is; […]
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You better watch out You better not cry You better not rant, I’m telling you why The FBI is coming to town They’re making a list They’re checking on Twitter They’re gonna find out if you’re a bullshitter The FBI is coming to town They’ve seen all of your selfies Of you on the Capitol […]
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Like a vision of the Virgin Mary appearing in the mould growing on a slice of stale bread, my Digital Impressionism project was not so much a carefully constructed work of art but more a chance discovery down the back of the sofa. It had been growing for a number of years before I realised. […]
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Ecco, volevi a corona… My dear friend, Erwin Schrödinger, has just found me laughing at this joke. His Italian, however, is not as good as mine so I have translated it for him but, in so doing, I appear to have killed his cat Or not. ‘So,’ I say, ‘you are telling me that the […]
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Here’s a quick test: Can you remember your passwords for all your online logins? Is that easy because you use the same one for everything and it is dead easy? Don’t tell me, let me guess… Well, then, you know your security is rotten. While we are all quarantined and spending more time online than […]
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Zoom has become the go-to video conferencing solution for social distancing in these coronavirus times. Unfortunately, you would do well to distance yourself from Zoom The platform has some serious security weaknesses as well as dubious personal data harvesting practices and deeply inadequate privacy controls. Our advice is unequivocal; do not use Zoom in your […]
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The government announced its ‘lockdown-lite’ on the evening of Monday, March 23, after a weekend in which half the UK observed the isolation advice by dogging on Snowden The definite-maybes from the Prime Minister and his lackeys about staying indoors but going out for exercise in the fresh air being a good thing too, were […]
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Drag-and-drop self-build website services are cheap and convenient but can an analogue ever be as creative as an artist? Spoiler alert! No, they can’t. Computers don’t think like humans because they think in binary mathematics. Humans think in some far less constrained, more fluid way which we do not understand. But we know this; a […]
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Friday, March 20: My first day in solitary starts with the 7:00am news on Radio 4. It is not good news. I’ve tried turning the radio off and avoiding the news but no news is worse than bad news. One day last week I turned the radio off for most of the day but in […]
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I was in denial. Two weeks ago, I thought it is just bad flu. More people die of influenza every year and we don’t panic over that, this coronavirus will pass. But at the beginning of last week, my thinking started to change I’m self-employed and work largely from home on my laptop. I go […]
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Typography is the art of making words legible, readable and appealing. Since words make up the bulk of our communication, so typography is the biggest part of our design The practice of typography comprises some long-established protocols which work well on our eyes, not simply because of the nature of the design but because we’re […]
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