Archive for December, 2009

Tom’s End of 2009 indie music mix

Just under the wire for 2009, I bring you my last of my 2009 music mixes. As always, this is a sort of autobiographical best-of mix featuring the songs that made the biggest rotation in my itunes since the last 6 months or so when I last published a mix. Some great tunes on here. [...]

Fax machines, and PDFs, kicking off the deadmedia watch for 2010

The fax machine was obsolete 15 years ago. When someone says “fax it to me,” I always feel like I’m being punk’d. A fax machine is nothing more than a printer, scanner and an obsolete analog mode that work together to waste time, money, paper and electricity. Documents that are faxed usually start out in [...]

It’s back! the 2009 Indie-punk-ass Christmas Mix

Long time readers will know what time of year it is. It’s indie-punk-ass music mix time of the year on thomaspurves.com! Here you go kids, this year’s 2009 compilation. Enjoy =) 01 Stars Fairytale Of New York 02 Barenaked Ladies God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 03 Sufjan Stevens Get Behind Me, Santa! 04 Ramones Merry [...]

Come discuss AR with me @ York Mobile Media Lab

Date: Monday Dec 7, 2009 Time: 3:00-5:00 pm Where: Mobile Media Lab, York University Technology Enhanced Learning Building 88 the Pond Road, Room Tel 2001 Link: Thomas Purves talk at Mobile Media Lab Who knew that since I gave my first Augmented Reality talk back in April of this year that AR would become such [...]