new labyrinth stuff
1: sendsecret is a spin-off from the Peace Labyrinth running this weekend in Christchurch NZ.
well done to pete and joyce majendie and all their collaborators - i'm looking forward to the photos. it amazes me, to see that logo in use so far away and nearly eight years later.
2: speaking of which, there is a new site at labyrinth.org.uk. i had neglected it horribly once the tours were over in 2002 - the weeds grew around it - but then the proost relaunch this year broke all the merchandise links and i had to do something. same content, but a whole lot smarter, deframed and deflashed, with the online labyrinth incorporated.
[the splashpage of the original site was a way of dealing with the fact that it was three sites all hosted and run separately. the forum closed after the cathedral tours, the online labo was on yfc uk's servers, and the explanatory site on ukonline had become inaccessible to me - a dead site. the new one is all on yfc's server, to whom thanks]
and i've subtly updated the logo. the black line is now the *path* rather than the boundaries [ie the tape] - so it's the inverse of the original. should've thought of that at the beginning - the old one's tattooed on me now. damn ;)
website cushion
called in at the the howies shop today and had to buy this t-shirt:
my sentiments exactly [hate flying, love trains], favourite logo, favourite font [see smallfire.org]. pity they didn't print it on dark blue though.
they also have the wattson by diy kyoto. i saw this when it was launched at a design show in 2005 and meant to blog it then. the original version cost £300 because it was made in south london out of recycled wood - lovely but too expensive - i said, if you can do this cheaper you might sell a lot. and they now do an all-plastic version at £150, although that's still a lot for a gadget that tells you how much money you've spent! you can get the wood version if you must, though it's bamboo now not a school floor.
and then i went round the corner and found the do shop, which is selling stuff for the home by young design graduates. good stuff from very cheap to very expensive - some of it's been in the design magazines. i had to buy this cushion - i expect you can see why:
maybe all my website designs could be made into cushions. maybe i should've been a cushion designer.
incidentally, i never intended to buy anything at all today.
new smallritual.org
colour changes here to go with the new smallritual.org. new menu system, photos gone to flickr, all emerging church stuff in one menu [though the actual locations of old files has not changed]. the menus are in chronological order and give dates now - i was curious to see how my ideas develop through iterations, which was disguised by the previous layout. not to mention that some stuff is 'of its time' while still being interesting later. and loads of liturgical stuff put into the 'small rituals' section [formerly 'stuff' - why didn't i think of 'small rituals' earlier? it's so obvious]. if it's good enough for proost i ought to have it on my own site ;) and some of it didn't make the proost cut [yet] but i like it anyway.
also the article i wrote for the royal college of organists' 'church music quarterly', published in june - a classic case of the same old same old with a new thought - 'alternative worship is the first church movement to fully embrace recorded music as its normal means of expression'. ['alternative worship' because that's the term i was approached with, rather than 'emerging church'. the article is a miracle of compression, there wasn't space to argue!].
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