da bishop

General Multimedia Mac based information architect & content author.

Also multi instrumental musician with a diploma in the electric guitar, and a degree from the school of rock'n'roll hard knocks.

Types 80wpm, quite a lot of it readable, too.

Education

Attended Hallfield Estate Primary School And Learned to Handle Authority vs. Militia Politics.

Attended UCS on Govt. Scholarship and learned the fundamental subjects academically

Left in 1997 due to being banned by a maths teacher from the computer room for the 400th time for "hacking" ie: bypassing the draconian yet pathetic security allowing only Word & Excel and installing some... Proper Software.

Experience

Went round the corner from home to BBB where I played with drum scanners, a network of G3 macs and film imagesetters, and ended up handling quite a few blue chip corps like P&O's corporate identities & doing consultancy work on digital strategy for the bridgeman art library & many others.

Moonlight a bit for Pentagram here and there

Logic Audio released. Built recording studio & went web multimedia productions. Worked with dude called fayney who did the clash. The dude had the best laugh.

Ran a project space with a few bands called Unit 13, one of them was Razorlight. That place was ugly. Good times though.

Freelance here... freelance there installation here, book there... album here... EP there... 12 hours a day in front of the Mac one way or another.

Meet a printing company in Westbourne Studios who are finding the 21st century a bit tough, and set to work rebuilding it... with a slightly more 21st century approach.

Printing these days is robotics. The inkjet printer... killer of printing... is a robot. The first mass marketed and successfully installed home robot... ever.

thing is, the robot's nervous system was... printed! PCB & IC.

Attack of the Killer Micros they called it in supercomputing.

Well, I mean there's your washing machine, but that ain't a clever painting robot.

Michaelangelo would get a look on his face looking at the sub £100 epson printer in action.

These robots we've got in the studio should scare most traditional printers, and painters. We have serious digital bandwidth.

Scary stuff, these robots, but amazingly socialist. Too socialist. Typography for print is Uuuuugly these days. The web isn't much better.

These days you can print 3D with a 2.5D inkjet. Cool robotics.

Robots are devices that attach to computers. Computers connect via networks.

Ultimately the robot is one of the most practical web connected devices, and printing is where we have seen it working commercially in the past 10 years.

Many of the devices connecting to networks will be mechanical, ie: robots.

Most of what you buy today is made by robot.

Lego have a nice robot brick which talks java out now in toystores. Object oriented applies not just to software, but also to mechanical + sofware.

We can see a swathe of affordable modular java servo control & transducer technology becoming available.

Your inkjet printer is liable to get up off the table and start walking.

Don't worry, unless it's armed or you've forgotten the password.

oh dear the feed crawler is rather lame, you're missing my blog. This would seem to have quit working in November 2007. Follow the link, read the news, not the olds. Ironic that it jammed on "back to when?"