2001 – Ewan Spence

Buying stuff and supporting the indies in 2015

Posted on January 3, 2015January 3, 2015 by Ewan Spence

One of the things I want to do this year is support more creative and independent people out there, both through links and coverage in places like SXSW Baby! or Edinburgh Nights), but also through�buying their stuff. It might be a�few pounds online for a shareware registration fee, a CD, or a crowd funding project for a book, but I’m going to push a bit more�on that door in 2015. Starting with the�OSX screen saver that everyone seems to love (or at least asks about) on my Mac. It’s�a series of animated slides lifted from ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’� representing

“…until such time as you grow weary of her.”

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Ewan Spence

12 years, and far from weary. Love you, Vikki.

Stanley Kubrick describing Twitter

Posted on April 10, 2008June 29, 2023 by Ewan Spence

Sometimes a passage in a book stands out at me, even though I’ve read it many times before. This, from today, is a classic example of just that: “I don’t think the verb “twittering” seems right. We must decide how these fellows talk.” Stanley Kubrick pp48, The Lost Worlds of 2001, Arthur C Clarke. So what did Kubrick know that we didn’t? And have we got ourselves a “Mineshaft Gap 2.0” between the tweets and the, ehrm, tweezers?