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[crossconnectmag]

Bad Blueprints...

Is an image dump for things made by alec mackenzie... [email protected] or follow @badblueprints

Selected and Posted to Cross-Connect by Andrew

[badblueprints]

I'm lurking here now as well...

[milkstudios]

Mr. Nobody

Check out the grotesquely wonderful GIFs by web artist Alec Mackenzie on Milk Made.

[triple-og-print]

Welcome to the Show Part 2 - Accompanying Text

The GIF was voted word of the year in 2012 and recognized as an official verb by the oxford university press. Don’t worry YOLO, an acronym for “you only live once”, was close behind.

The GIF is 26 years old, a bitmap image format popular for it’s ability to compress images to reduce transfer time and provide a full colour image from a palette of up to 256 colours chosen from the 24-bit RGB colour space.

The GIF has had recent resurgence of mainstream popularity over the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability but the biggest reason for it’s popularity is that you can use this file format to animate and make low resolution film clips, which are looped endlessly.

Announcing their popularity there is even a new annual award dedicated to celebrating these looped little animations that propagate Tumblr and Facebook. The categories for the GIFY awards include art and design, news and politics, sport and animals; there is even a separate category all together for cats.

In the article Loop the Loop by Morgan Quaintance, he evaluates that ‘GIF’s are capable of reducing the complexity of modern life to the status of a four-second gag, recalibrating our emotional and empathic responses in the process.’ Although for me the GIF acts as instant gratification in which our culture seems to be embedded in now; a culture where we are expected to decide everything in a matter of seconds. We immediately choose whether we like something or not then throw it away and search for the next thing.

In the film six degrees of separation one of the main characters Ouisa talks about their lives events becoming anecdotes for dinner parties. I feel our anecdotes have metamorphosed and compressed much like the image format of a GIF, in which our interesting ‘real life’ incidents are shortened into some sort of collective mass culture and regurgitated in a quick amusing gag that carries a collective cultural idea or symbol. We then use this to out-trump each other and rather than at a dinner party we sit in the comfortable glow of our computer screen where physical interaction is kept to a minimum.

Welcome to the Show is a three part series, which pair’s one predominately post-internet artist with one sculptural based artist, purposely forcing each artist into a category highlighting the taxonomy that allows group sorting and categorizing of various images and text.

[howtophil]

"Time Trap" by Alec MacKenzie - Look At A Book Review

Script:

Are you having trouble keeping time under control? Can’t find a TARDIS, Delorean, or Guardian Of Forever? Don’t Panic! All you need to do is take a look at "Time Trap" by Alec MacKenzie. I’m HowToPhil and this is another Look At A Book Review. (Title Card slide in and then slide in review section) Alec MacKenzie is a key leader in Time Management and has written several books on the subject as well as hosting as a guest speaker, and working as a time management consultant. The Time Trap, originally published in 1972, is currently in it’s 4th edition. I’ve read through the 3rd edition, published in 1997, and find the content to be… well… timeless. The first quarter of the book covers all of the tactics you’ll need to conquer your unruly time management problems. The rest of the book is dedicated to helping you solve almost every time wasting situation you could encounter. Alec takes a narrative approach to teaching you how to deal with time management and time wasters, providing example stories with solutions built into those stories. Also at the end of each chapter there is a test to rate your effectiveness on the given solution to time management problems, you’re expected to rate yourself while you read the book and then again a few months later to measure your new effectiveness. Now for the ratings! (ratings time title card) On an informational level I’d have to give this book a 5 out of 5. If you’re hoping to wrangle your time management issues this is a prime book on the subject. On a entertainment level… well… I’d have to give it 2.5 out of 5 stars. The stories are nice and do help cement the training into memory, but they are not exactly riveting. I had to put the book down a few times in order to really make it through. Overall it’s a very useful read and functions as part Time Management text book, part work book. Put it on your reading list and you just may find afterwards that you have gained several hours a day to get through the rest of your reading list. I hope you’ve enjoyed this review and remember, HowToPhil has the skill.

[prhoades]

The Time Trap by Alec MacKenzie - Look At A Book Review

Script:

Are you having trouble keeping time under control? Can't find a TARDIS, Delorean, or Guardian Of Forever? Don't Panic! All you need to do is take a look at "Time Trap" by Alec MacKenzie. I'm HowToPhil and this is another Look At A Book Review. (Title Card slide in and then slide in review section) Alec MacKenzie is a key leader in Time Management and has written several books on the subject as well as hosting as a guest speaker, and working as a time management consultant. The Time Trap, originally published in 1972, is currently in it's 4th edition. I've read through the 3rd edition, published in 1997, and find the content to be. . . well. . . timeless. The first quarter of the book covers all of the tactics you'll need to conquer your unruly time management problems. The rest of the book is dedicated to helping you solve almost every time wasting situation you could encounter. Alec takes a narrative approach to teaching you how to deal with time management and time wasters, providing example stories with solutions built into those stories. Also at the end of each chapter there is a test to rate your effectiveness on the given solution to time management problems, you're expected to rate yourself while you read the book and then again a few months later to measure your new effectiveness. Now for the ratings! (ratings time title card) On an informational level I'd have to give this book a 5 out of 5. If you're hoping to wrangle your time management issues this is a prime book on the subject. On a entertainment level. . . well. . . I'd have to give it 2.5 out of 5 stars. The stories are nice and do help cement the training into memory, but they are not exactly riveting. I had to put the book down a few times in order to really make it through. Overall it's a very useful read and functions as part Time Management text book, part work book. Put it on your reading list and you just may find afterwards that you have gained several hours a day to get through the rest of your reading list. I hope you've enjoyed this review and remember, HowToPhil has the skill.

[howtophil]

The Time Trap by Alec MacKenzie - Look At A Book Review

Script:

Are you having trouble keeping time under control? Can't find a TARDIS, Delorean, or Guardian Of Forever? Don't Panic! All you need to do is take a look at "Time Trap" by Alec MacKenzie. I'm HowToPhil and this is another Look At A Book Review. (Title Card slide in and then slide in review section) Alec MacKenzie is a key leader in Time Management and has written several books on the subject as well as hosting as a guest speaker, and working as a time management consultant. The Time Trap, originally published in 1972, is currently in it's 4th edition. I've read through the 3rd edition, published in 1997, and find the content to be. . . well. . . timeless. The first quarter of the book covers all of the tactics you'll need to conquer your unruly time management problems. The rest of the book is dedicated to helping you solve almost every time wasting situation you could encounter. Alec takes a narrative approach to teaching you how to deal with time management and time wasters, providing example stories with solutions built into those stories. Also at the end of each chapter there is a test to rate your effectiveness on the given solution to time management problems, you're expected to rate yourself while you read the book and then again a few months later to measure your new effectiveness. Now for the ratings! (ratings time title card) On an informational level I'd have to give this book a 5 out of 5. If you're hoping to wrangle your time management issues this is a prime book on the subject. On a entertainment level. . . well. . . I'd have to give it 2.5 out of 5 stars. The stories are nice and do help cement the training into memory, but they are not exactly riveting. I had to put the book down a few times in order to really make it through. Overall it's a very useful read and functions as part Time Management text book, part work book. Put it on your reading list and you just may find afterwards that you have gained several hours a day to get through the rest of your reading list. I hope you've enjoyed this review and remember, HowToPhil has the skill.