The nominees for this years Turner Prize have been announced. Here’s A Nicholas Glass report from last year about nominee Roger Hiorns whose copper sulphate house interior exhibition came to prominence via word of mouth.
Did anyone else get to make copper sulphate gardens at school or am I just showing my age?
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Today (April 18th) is Record Store Day with many worldwide record stores holding special events including special one-off vinyl releases or live performances. Around 100 stores in the UK are taking part. Recently BBC London’s Robert Elms looked again at vinyl production at The Vinyl Factory in Hayes.
Certainly a fair audio representation of my dream world of late and doodles stemming from or inspired by dreams are beginning to be a common theme.Ho hum.
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The BBC iPlayer is tentatively preparing to offer high definition streams and downloads.It will be interesting to 
see how UK ISP’s react to the increased load HD material may bring to their infrastructures as many of them already impose bandwidth throttling techniques for users who consumer too much data during certain time of the day.
An Internet bandwidth test will determine the best quality available to each iPlayer user.
HD material is expected to later be added to Virgin media boxes , playstation 3 and Freesat at some time in the future.
A new Adam Curtis short which was shown during Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe programme.
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