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by Tim Baggaley

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This website is a compendium of the work of Tim Baggaley. This archive is of the links to all of the posts in his projects which contain his writing, photography, art and design. Note that each of these links takes you to the article within the website where it is posted and will open in a new tab. If you’d like to know about his professional services, visit graphicviolence.co.uk

The FBI Is Coming To Town

January 8, 2021

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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the Digital Impressionism project

October 20, 2020

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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Tim Baggaley photographer

October 10, 2020

I inherited my love of photography from my father, Mike. I cannot remember a time when he was not carrying a camera and, likewise, I can’t remember when I did not either. My earliest memories are of him with his twin-lens Rolleiflex and me with a Kodak Pocket Instamatic. Mike didn’t teach me how to […]

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Using ZOOM is a calculated security risk

April 15, 2020

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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Lost in translation

April 11, 2020

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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Is your password rubb!$h?

April 9, 2020

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 is the weakest link

April 5, 2020

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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Tory Party Do Not Resuscitate notice

April 3, 2020

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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How to think like an artist

March 28, 2020

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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Panic attacks, it doesn’t wait for an invite

March 22, 2020

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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Swimming in Egypt

March 19, 2020

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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Finding your type online: using magazine typography in websites

July 13, 2019

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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