Ciberart Bilbao

Boffin Factory

There are so many obsessed, energy-saving, scientific knowing boffins throughout the world, aren’t there? Turn on the TV at almost any time and one is sure to jump up scratching his bald head, saying ’er…'a lot, clearly battered after another night of intellectually-clouded awful sleep. While it’s ludicrous to think that all these great minds could get together—and come to think of it probably un-wise, too, seeing what tends to happen when clever people get together en masse: trouble and More

Walking The Plank.

It seems that the business of internet piracy is very black and white. People are either all for it or totally against it. And there appears to be very little room for discussion in between. If you ask a lot of the public they will simply say it’s wrong, even if they have never used a computer. Because ‘piracy’ conjures up nasty images and sounds so blatantly illegal it puts the fear of God in many people.

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To Be Continued

Picture the scene: you’ve been working for the company for five years and have done well, as well as anyone, what with the over-time—but times are hard; a new mortgage is hard to come by, everything costs more and more every day, and you need to find some way of making money: you need to do this fast. Then you discover that by simply altering a few numbers—things which only you would notice, small, insignificant things that can’t do More

To Watch A Deadman.

Portishead are one of those bands that like to mess around with film-making. For a lot of musicians, this can be a rather dodgy area. Making music is one thing, but managing to create a half-decent movie is a very different matter. You think that’s harsh? Then you obviously don’t remember Vanilla Ice. Actually, his music and his film were both crap so that is perhaps a bad example… But if you do manage to get it all right then More