The thirteenth Dr Hairy instalment, concluding the first series of short videos about the adventures and frustrations of an ordinary (but rather hirsute) General Practitioner. In this one, Dr Hairy reaches a crisis in his career and decides to seek the help of a mentor – with hilarious results! To view the video on [...]

At last! A layman’s guide to the Government’s healthcare reforms, explaining them in terms so simple they might have been written by a complete idiot, and charting the development of health care from the good old days to the present and beyond – with hilarious results! In fabulous stickman-o-vision, with bits of colour. Kind of [...]

“Psychedelic Pie” is a psychedelic video with a psychedelic sound-track, created from materials found on the Web. You can see the video on YouTube  at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS4Wpx5QKXc, or on my site at http://edwardpicot.com/psychedelicpie.mov. Attributions: backward guitar and psychedelic viola by Robinhood76; psychedelic percussion by Satoration; sitar by Kaiho – all from www.freesound.org. Morning traffic timelapse by [...]

“Cordite 36: Electronica has been a fascinating and challenging issue to put together. It contains forty new poems, fifteen spoken word tracks, a dozen features and, for the first time, a selection of multimedia or ‘e-lit’ works. Bringing together these disparate types of content raises an interesting question for Cordite as an online journal. Have [...]

Hi, everyone– After a long hiatus, here are two new digital stories from webyarns.com… “Pangram (The Quick Brown Fox)” plays with the concept of a pangram and provides a hypothetical back-story to the most widely-known example of the form. The second story, the “ABCs of UFOs,” is the purported website of a UFO investigation team. [...]

“A tall thin old man comes backwards slowly and carefully through the glass door, carrying a metal stepladder in one hand, and in the other a small pot of paint and a small brush. With an air of methodical tidiness, he leans the stepladder against the front of a left-hand stall, stands the pot of [...]

[I've completed my Third Hand Plays run at the SFMoma Blog Open Space. I curated 11 new works of digital literature for the series and wrote 12 illustrated blog posts outlining my idea of the "comedies of separation." I've been asked to contribute a piece to the series of new e-lit but just haven't had [...]

“The elements of the dinner-parties which Mrs Lennox gave, were beauty, men, and pedantic conversation. They talked in a sensuous way outside, lashed themselves when they were alone, and squandered their capabilities in the drawing-room.” Concluding the abridged version of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South – abridged on the principle of leaving out all the [...]

“Extraordinary Discourse” is the latest project of Canadian audio and new media artist Jack Saturday, previously best known for an enormous sound-collage called “The World Owes You a Living” which was self-published on 6 CDs back in about 2005. His technique is to harvest thousands of short sound-bites from the infosphere – from pundits and [...]

[I posted before about my book Lurid Numbers, a collection of codework texts scheduled to be printed by BlaxeVox, publisher of weird little books, but judged unprintable, despite the best efforts of the publisher to negotiate with the printer, etc. This is fascinating - among other reasons - because it involves a judgment by a computer [...]

The tenth and eleventh in a series of 10-minute videos about the adventures and frustrations of an ordinary (but rather hirsute) General Practitioner. In Appraisal Part 3, Dr Hairy and Dr Underslider have their appraisals – and Dr Gladstone is cornered at the Cricket Club – with hilarious results! In Part 4, Dr Hairy has [...]

“Gathering, gathering along the narrow street, came a hollow solemn blast. From each side of the door there were constant droppings. Higgins crept up carefully upon the stones, his glassy eyes, one half-open, staring upwards to the sky. Owing to the position in which he had been lying, the fore part of his head was [...]

The ninth in a series of 10-minute videos about the adventures and frustrations of an ordinary (but rather hirsute) General Practitioner. In this one, Dr Hairy keeps trying to fill out his appraisal form – and gets some advice from his friend Grabber about how to do it – with hilarious results! The second of [...]

A short Flash “poem” about surgery work. The accompanying music was developed using Andre Michelle’s lovely Tonematrix ( http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix ). http://edwardpicot.com/fridaymorning – Edward Picot http://edwardpicot.com – personal website http://hyperex.co.uk – The Hyperliterature Exchange

I just came across this in another forum: a comic-book (but very advanced) interpretation of the Tower of Babel by an artist called John Miers. It’s really worth a look. His website is at http://www.johnmiers.com/ and the Tower of Babel project is in the Comics section. An interview about the project, with another artist called [...]