It was an excellent combination of cracking autumn day and late deadline on Monday, so we packed the tackers in the car and walked the Benchmarking Birchs Bay sculpture trail run by Fleurtys Cafe down past Woodbridge.
It’s a beautiful bushwalk (if a bit steep when you’re pushing two kids in a pram) and the sculptures are excellent. Worth a look if you’ve got a lazy few hours. The cafe does a might fine flat white too.
Hmmm, had two kiddies with gastro in the house this week. Not sure if this wasn’t something of an influence.
Yes, I am a bad parent. Luckily, their mum is an angel.
The iPad is soon to be upon us, and with any luck will save newspapers from certainish doom. It looks like a pretty damn cool device for reading a newspaper, but I suspect the good old crushed tree experience is the way to go with novels for a few years yet.
I’ve been keeping an eye on Mark Fiore’s political animations for as few years. While some people think it’s the evolution of the newspaper political cartoon, I personally think it’s an entirely different beast. Nonetheless, it’s an entirely legit form of satire, as Fiore recently proved by winning a Pulitzer prize.
Obviously mobile devices are where short animations of this type are really going fly, and naturally a Mark Fiore iPhone App makes sense. However, Apple didn’t feel the same way and rejected him from the App Store with the following letter:
Dear Mr. Fiore,
Thank you for submitting NewsToons to the App Store. We’ve reviewed NewsToons and determined that we cannot post this version of your iPhone application to the App Store because it contains content that ridicules public figures and is in violation of Section 3.3.14 from the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement which states:
“Applications may be rejected if they contain content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, sounds, etc.) that in Apple’s reasonable judgment may be found objectionable, for example, materials that may be considered obscene, pornographic, or defamatory.” Examples of such content have been attached for your reference.
If you believe that you can make the necessary changes so that NewsToons does not violate the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement, we encourage you to do so and resubmit it for review.
Regards,
iPhone Developer Program
I’ve been using Macs for a long time, and I do think that Apple make might fine computers, however, they clearly don’t have the first idea when it comes to satire.
As Apple look like they’re attempting to rule the world as far as convergent media is concerned, this is a pretty alarming development and I really wish they’d pull their heads in – somewhere below turtleneck level if at all possible.
Info via Gizmodo.
I’ve been trying to get along to Dr Sketchy’s for a while now, but have been thwarted by my charming habit of not finishing my cartoons until the very last possible second. Tonight, I finally got my cartoon knocked over a bit early and toddled along with a crayon and some paper.
As it was my first life drawing outing for about a year and a half, my drawings were pretty hideous, but I felt obliged to make an extra effort for the last one of the night. The model Bridget Bridge posed on top of a large pile of broken glass she had brought along specially for the occasion. Yes, really. For twenty minutes! There was talk of this being a record of some sort. Anyway, I ran out of time to draw all the glass, but it was there.
Ow.