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  • I went to the Olympics

    I was fortunate enough to have tickets to see the athletics at the Olympic Stadium on Friday 10 August. I saw the USA women win the 4×100 relay and break the world record, and the British men narrowly miss out on a medal in the 4×400 relay as well as the 4 x 100 heats, Read more

  • New blog – Beside the See Side

    Following on from a recent trip to the coast, here’s a mini review for a photo/travel blog by Samantha Edgley – “Beeside the see side“. In her own words the blog records “the sights and spectacles that intrigue, fascinate and inspire“. With a strong eye for the unusual and colourful Samantha brings you pictures from from Read more

  • Bending the corporate control of the games.

    I get regular emails from the London 2012 Olympic organisers about travel and ticket information but mostly trying to convince me to buy some official merchandise. It’s a collectors dream, everything you can think of can be sold with a London 2012 logo on for twice the normal price. There are very tight restrictions on Read more

  • Letters from leaves

    Hand crafted typography is quite an art, and some people with exceptional skill can make a business from it. I’ve seen paper and card used but not leaves before, and Twan van Keulen has given it a go with impressive results. Found on www.likecool.com, originally published by Twan van Keulen on his site at studiogloeilamp.nl Read more

  • How far can you take TV merchandising?

    Following from my earlier post about a bloody bathmat, while I was looking for Dexter links I found the official “Showtime” website, the American network which premiers Dexter. You can buy merchandise for their TV shows, and I was intrigued by what merchandise they sold for a TV programme about a blood splatter analysis serial Read more

  • If Dexter was your friend

    I’ve been watching a lot of Dexter recently on my daily commute, and in my daily blog tour I noticed this: Read more

  • The people make the picture

    Website www.likecool.com has featured artist Craig Alan‘s aerial photography using people to create portraits: Read more

  • What do you share with who? Web 2.0 is slowly being locked down.

    I often go through phases of using different social networks to update different people in what’s going on and chat to friends and colleagues. Each of my main networks (twitter, facebook, instagram, Flickr, Google+) is used by different groups of people in different ways, and it’s partly this that gets me active on one and Read more

  • 5 music videos which don’t take themselves too seriously

    Since MTV started in 1981 with Video killed the radio star, music videos have been a big part of musical culture. It’s a shame when they’re just 3 minutes of someone singing into a microphone, so here’s five that stand out for me for making the most of the opportunity and not taking themselves too Read more

  • Essential iPad apps

    It seems a tradition for anyone with a blog and an iPad to list their “essential” apps, so here’s mine. Accuweather – Is it still raining outside and you hadn’t noticed? http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/accuweather-free-for-ipad/id364616869  Adobe Ideas – Sketching app that also works with other documents for annotation. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/adobe-ideas-1-0-for-ipad/id364617858 Adobe Photoshop Express – Simple photo editor http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/adobe-photoshop-express/id331975235 Amazon – Read more

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I am Tom Steel, I live in Sussex and work in digital services in London.
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