Posts Tagged ‘talks’

I promised more book recommendations, so here are a couple that I'm recommending even though I haven't read them (yet) myself!

Last week there was a launch party for David B's Black Paths, at Clerkenwell Tales, a lovely little bookshop in Exmouth Market….

So, there's this thing called "Interesting" and people keep asking about it. "What is Interesting?" they ask, and of course the short — and best — answer is: Everything Is Interesting To Someone. Or keep it even shorter and just say, Everything, full stop. The other answer is that Interesting is a one-day event where [...]

I've neglected this place a little since my epic write-up of my epic meal at the Fat Duck. Which is a bit of a shame, as I did some equally noteworthy and interesting things last week.

I planned to go to the first big session of Amp09′s year last Tuesday but, due to a headache that has been giving me irregular stabbing pains on one side of my head, I bailed on going. So far I haven't seen any reports to suggest that I actually missed all that much apart from [...]

On Wednesday evening, I went to the Prince Charles to a free screening of

I've been quite the social party animal this past week. 'Tis the season and all, except that most of the events weren't actually related Christmas. It's all been a bit mad, so be prepared for a series of long posts. On Tuesday night I went to the Webby Night at the ICA, which was quite [...]

I went to the launch party for 2gether09 at The Hub on York Way on Wednesday night. I'd been past the venue a couple of times, but never been inside. It's rather nice; a reclaimed Victorian warehouse kitted out with lots of modern fixtures and fittings and a nice vaulted wooden ceiling. The wine flowed [...]

This session was, for me, the least successful or useful. I think partly it was the timing; it was, perhaps, too serious a subject for the time of day. I'm not saying we shouldn't discuss serious subjects in the evening, but coming after the fun of playing silly games, a quite amusing overview of the [...]

This particular session, run by Johnnie Moore, was surprisingly the most useful one for me. I went in not knowing what to really expect from the title, except that "more play" sounded fun. Although I knew there were bound to be games at first, I still had an awful sinking feeling for a moment that [...]

I found the emphasis behind the session for Future of the Book really fascinating, especially as it's one that's inciting so many contentious discussions at the moment. There was a minor kerfuffle about it on Twitter a month or so ago, prompted in part by something Tom Coates said, which was really interesting but awkward [...]