Drawn as a birthday card for the nephew
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Line drawing lion drawing
Saturday, September 10th, 2011Why should we change our voting system?
Sunday, April 24th, 2011As the referendum on the Alternative Vote approaches I’m getting more worried that the change will be voted out and we’ll be stuck with First Past the Post for another umpteen years. So I did a little xkcd-style cartoon to help illustrate some of the points and why, from my perspective, we should vote ‘Yes’. (With ‘No’ as second-choice, ha ha…)
The Alternative Vote has its problems too, but I see it as a ‘gateway’ voting system that might lead to proportional representation in the future.
Found sounds
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
This week I’ve been looking for interesting sounds to use in a music project. First is a recording of the Sea Organ in Zadar, Croatia. The organ was designed by Nikola Bašić and opened in 2005. It uses wind and wave power to continuously play a system of polyethylene pipes.
Second, I found a recording of the erruption of Mt St Helens made in 1980. It is the information about the recording that makes it interesting. The recording was made 140 miles from the volcano and you hear several low-frequency thuds — these were shock waves from the erruption that bounced back from different layers in the atmosphere.
And this sample of some innocently boiling puree just sounds unpleasant!
The Freesound Project is a “collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds”.