October 2009
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So what the fuck is going on with TAG
Hello everyone!
It’s 1am in the morning and I have a 10am lecture tommorow, so I will make this brief. TAG sadly fell to bits after many of its members decided (in their own selfishness) to go on Holiday over the summer, and due to certain areas of the world blocking access to many websites, including tumblr (cough China cough), sadly TAG couldn’t update. So currently, it is on...
August 2009
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“Dave,
Pertaining to your thoughts last week about the feasibility of the new...”
– Internal Memo from the Creator of the Universe to Head of Innovation Department
Stardate: 5
July 2009
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A Most Unusual Luncheon
Well I have to say this topic stumped me (hence the lateness) so in the end I decided to post a story I wrote a few years back, on the grounds that it was vaguely biblical.
I warn you, it’s a long one.
Enjoy!
It was the year of our lord two thousand and five, and I was dining in the Savoy. This is not in itself, worthy of much distinction, after all I am much given to dining in general...
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Week eight theme
Exodus 20:26
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Progress Report
Bi-Millennial progress report on universe 3B, subsection zeta 352, designated ‘Earth’.
Dear God,
Subsection zeta three five seven has largely been quiet for the last five hundred years, although there has recently been some wear and tear on the local gas giant, incident reports put this down to material fatigue, replacement parts are on order.
The main focus of zeta three five is...
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Volcano
Things start well.
I’d look at the Alps and I’d try and make them a bit more triangular, y’know, like how you’d draw a mountain is you were 7 years old. All peaks would be snow capped.
The grass would be greener and the sky would be bluer.
Nations would suddenly start finding gold seams in the most unusual places. Poor countries reliant on labour would suddenly have...
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If I were a superhero...
I wouldn’t be alone. I’d have a whole team, because after all, it’s no fun on your own!
Lise x
Ps. Sorry for the late post, told Matthew i’d post after him, to keep in order and all!
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Another History Lesson
Hello, today I’d like to give you a brief account of cult super hero Evolution Boy (later Evolution Man).
The first appearance of this character was in the wartime propaganda series of “Violence Comics”. These comics were largely narratively simplistic affairs, delivering tales of moral superiority and fisticuffs to the troops. Most stories would involve Nazi scientists creating...
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The Adventures of Hero Man and Admin Boy!
Tom here.
The idea I had for today was a visual one, so I decided to do a comic. Unfortunately I can’t draw like the others, so I did stickmen. Bad stickmen. To those who don’t think there’s such a thing as bad stickmen, you have been warned.
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If I were a Superhero ... I'd kick Alex Mercer's...
I’ve been playing Prototype recently. If you know about that game this’ll make a lot more sense. If not, there’s lots of explosions and something exciting happens with a spade that I won’t spoil for you.
-Thom
This Week's Theme
The theme for this week will be: “If I were a superhero…”
Also happy travelling to Simon, who’s of to China for a month. Simon’s going to try his best to fight the Great Firewall of China to bring us his Monday posts, if he can’t then we’ll probably maybe fill in for him.
-Thom
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Really not happy with this, funnily enough. Didn’t give it the time it deserved and had to cut loads (really, really loads) of content because of time constraints (and I was still late!)
-Matthew
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You Look Like Ants From Up Here
Hello, I’m Tom, we’ve probably met.
If you’ve met me, you’ve probably noticed I’m very tall, extremely so. In fact it tend to dominate conversation when I first meet people, so I’ve decided to provide a FAQ. Now next time someone asks me I can just give them the URL:
Q: How tall are you?
A: Six feet five inches, or one hundred ninety eight centimetres.
Q:...
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Nightmares
Parents say many things to their children. Often it’s for their own good, other times it’s just to terrify the little blighters. Why? Probably just for the lulz. There’s a few gathered below.
Always eat your greens, they say. Or bad things will happen.
The television will make your eyes go square.
Masturbation will make you go blind.
Be good, Santa won’t come.
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The Simplest Things (three short short stories)
Always Remember To Eat Your Greens
My mum always tried to make sure that I ate my greens, and so naturally, I hated eating my greens. I don’t think it was because of the taste, or because they were horrible and difficult to chew (I was, and still remain, a fan of leeks), but because my parents made a big point about making sure that I ate my greens. It became a game between us, with her and...
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Week five theme
Always Remember to Eat Your Greens
*news*
We welcome Ms. Nuara Choudhury who has taken over Sunday for us, now we have someone for every day of the week! Horray!
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Memory Lane, Memory City
A city. Imagine a city made of roads all more or less straight and more or less perpendicular, and many buildings, from the air, all square and light-blue and flat [Ravensburger Ravensburger Ravensburger], down there.
The finger hesitates, wanders a little. Then the stretched index chooses, plummets like a bird of prey, turns the card. A white rabbit, sitting in a yellow cart with a red...
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Memory Lane
Ok, so i’ll start at the beginning.
This is me. Lisa Marie Davis. Born 18th December 1987. Blonde haired and chubby cheeked .
I’ve decided to take you all through a very quick journey through our family photograph album.
We’ll start at the beach. You will notice we’ve seem to have spent at least half of our childhood on the beach (by we, I mean me and my parents /...
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Art History
Possibly overlong, hopefully not too dull. I’m going to post a bunch of old work I did for Fine Art back in school, and mix it up with a mildly embarrassing tale from around the same time. All fairly personal, so I’ve no idea how interesting it’ll be for onlookers, big but not clever, OK? OK.
Whilst an unfortunate combination of grievous whisky abuse and the internet has left...
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Memory Lane
More big chunks of text I’m afraid. I lack the ability to do anything else. Such an odd phrase, I wonder who came up with it? It makes one picture a bright, cheerful suburban street. All trimmed lawns and white picket fences. Clean. Orderly. You can imagine yourself driving down the street, you cruise slowly, there’s no other traffic to be seen, admiring the houses of your memory. Sometimes...
June 2009
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Why Look Back?
-Thom
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A Walk down Memory Lane
Apologies over the slight lateness, I had to try lots of different things, scrapped about four drawings before doing this, hope you like it :)
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Week four theme
Memory Lane
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Playlist: New Young Pony Club, CSS, Black Kids and a smattering of Ladyhawke.
No Long Blondes though, never any of them.
(oh god I’m so sorry) - Matthew
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Crowdsourced
Sorry about the late posting guys, I’ve been a little busy lately:
There’s a new buzzword being spoken of on the intertubes lately, it’s ‘crowdsourcing’ the use of the public access the net provides to process vast amounts of information. It may not sound terribly exciting, but it’s certainly very intriguing. It’s probably not new either, but it’s new to me, okay? I’ll start again.
I’m here to...
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Outsourced
Blue collar workers clock in with pale timecards. They move crates from ships to storage containers, stocked stories high in bland primary colours. Forklift devices prowl the lego maze of boxes, moving packages to the lorries that wait quietly at one end of the site. Gorged with produce, they choose their moment and file onto the open roads of Britain. Within, the cargo rattles. Like particles...
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one:
Once upon a time a [adj.] [adj.] [n1.] was walking down a [adj.] [adj. [n.2] when it came across a [adj.] [adj.] [n3.].
‘Hello’, the [n1.] said. ‘How are you?’
‘I’m good thanks.’ The [adj.] [adj.] [n2.] said shyly.
[n1.] looked into [n2.]’s [n4.] and smiled.
They held each others [adj.] [n5.] and walked off into the [adj.] [n6.] and lived...
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Week three theme
Many hands make light work
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"Swearing in Court"
I owe some thanks to Eleonora Schinella for completely overhauling the limerick to fit the pictures better.
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Loose Lips Sink Ships
Something a bit different this time, looks like I’m the first one to try something non-comedy:
My father seldom spoke of the war, though I knew he played a part in it. It is possible he was ashamed that he never served on the frontlines themselves, though at forty years old, short sighted and with a pronounced limp, he was no-one’s idea of a soldier. He was, however, a clever man, in a slow...
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Loose Lips Sink Ships
Imagine if you will, in this analogy the ship represents a person’s reputation, a fragile thing at the best of times. A person’s reputation existing as a hot balloon full of nonsense and hearsay, from which an individual can craft a rather flattering self image and promote it to the world, preferably through the medium of dance. Permit me then, if you will, to lie to you for the next...
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Week two theme
Loose lips sink ships
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-Matthew
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Hi, I’m Tom, (not to be confused with Thom) and I’ll be your contributor for today. I’ve got a piece of short fiction for you: (NB: I have no idea how to do page breaks in tumblr so you’ll have to tolerate this monstrous wall of text untill one of my co-conspirators helps me fix it) The following is an interview I conducted during my tenure at New Scientist Magazine. The...
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Download the mp3 here and the transcript here.
-...
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Week one theme
T-Rexs can’t wear hats.
This is TAG
TAG is a project that some guys and gals decided to start randomly for fun, and also because they were bored and were feeling creative.
TAG is a project where every week, a theme is chosen, and every day, one of our members creates something based around that theme, using a variety of mediums from prose to audio to video to images and so forth. Each day of the week is allocated to one of our...