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Amir Khan knocked out in less than a minute?

mattr — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:42:23 +0000

Wow – a career changing minute, Amir Khan knocked out inside 60 seconds

If it’s yes, give me a signal – adjust your shorts.

mattr — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:06:14 +0000

Awesome! The first Seinfeld and Gates ad for Windows… let the cynics begin the flaming, but I think this is really funny.

Postcard : The Fountain, Woodhouse in 1907

mattr — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:00:00 +0000

I have no idea where Woodhouse is, but I picked this card up based on the lovely message, which moves from sad to funny in a few lines – sent to Kent in 1907.

Click more for the full message…

Mini-review : Brett Anderson - Wilderness

mattr — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:57:00 +0000

I fear I maybe a bit late to the party on this one (the album was released in July), but I just got hold of Brett Anderson’s recent album – Wilderness – and am at the end of my third listen.

It is a lovely album – short and plaintive – mainly piano, cello and his distinctive voice, I noticed it got an absolute panning in one of the papers last week, but I think it deserves a listen. As Simon Price in the Independent says, “If the French had a singer like this, they would erect statues”.

Stand out track is Back to You, recorded with French vocalist Emmanuelle Seigner, which is a beautiful track, stripped back to the barest essentials.

Lovely album – check it out.

Elbow – Live at the Paradiso, Amsterdam

mattr — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:57:00 +0000

Many will know that I’m a massive fan of Elbow – having seen them a couple of times in recent years I can attest to how good they are live. The amazing FabChannel has an awesome gig available for streaming through their website.

The show was from 25th June at the Paradiso Main Room in Amsterdam and is truly wonderful from Guy Garvey’s superb voice, through the whole band and the string section.

The direct link to the show is here – it is absolutely marvelous.

Update – just found out, by signing up to the site, I can embed the gig here in my site, so…

Postcard : St Martins Church - 1904

mattr — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:56:00 +0000

St Martin Church – sent in 1904 from Kent to Wimbledon in Surrey, although my search skills are letting me down to find out where this church is, another great example of a postcard which sends amessage that today would be an SMS message.

Click more for the full message.

Marvelous!

mattr — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:53:47 +0000

Found at fffound – super take on the classic poster.

50 words is not a lot

mattr — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:32:00 +0000

50 words is not a lot – although a lot can be said in 50 words – check these mini sagas.

Photosynth – Arch of Titus, Rome

mattr — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:55:00 +0000

Just before I left for Rome, Microsoft Live Labs officially launched the Photosynth tool which allows you to arrange and share your photographs in a completely unique way and explore those photos as if you were looking at the detail of the real world.

It is kind of hard to explain – so explore my first synth of the Arch of Titus in Rome either by clicking the embedded version above, or the full size version over at Photosynth. It is really easy to explore, just click away and watch how you can zoom into details of the arch.

Banksy in No-La?

mattr — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:49:29 +0000

Banksy in NO-LA, check out this flickr set of the man in New Orleans.