• unexpectedly discovered I'd been taking weird pictures like this http://twitpic.com/7xy62 #
• Enjoying 12 Byzantine Rulers podcast. #
• #football how much will the South Africans lose by? #
• Nice and sunny out. So obviously have to spend the whole day chained to the compy working. #
• Listening to a History of Jazz. All about 1959. Great stuff. Totally not what I expected. Still don't get the music though. #
• Poor Mary Bellows. She's always getting it in the neck. #
• 69 Police – David Holmes vs the mean guy from Get Shorty. #
• Listening to one of my International Mixtape Project mixes from back in the day. Currently feat. Sabres of Paradise and Anonymous NMI. #
• I am taking too long to do stuff #blamedrewscancer #
• I prefer the version by Christine from the 1970s ? http://blip.fm/~8i62x #
• Kiss with a Fist and like it ? http://blip.fm/~8i5zu #
• Less knackered. Moer Hungry. #
• Up since five. Knackered. #
• @thehomme a boob tube worn vertically is still a boob tube. And it's never stylish. in reply to thehomme #
• Haven't been in the V&A's garden before. Very impressive although the junior fountains are a bit lame. http://twitpic.com/7r6jx #
• Sitting in the garden thinking about case studies. And dinner. Dinner seems much more appealling. http://twitpic.com/7qckt #
• Calming down after presentation. Http://www.palace.co.UK/blog #
• Vaguely moving over to tweetdeck. Still amused by the Stath in Death (Stath) Race. Good to see Roger Corman had a production credit. #
• First tune made with BeatMaker. ? http://blip.fm/~8fq50 #
• Not sure I am all that bothered by iPhone 3.0 update. #
• Verdict on Death Race – far too fast, far too furious. A quality Stath experience. Highly recommended. #
• Watching Death Race with the Stath. #
• Feel like The Clash in Safe European Home, just got back and wish I'd never been. #
• Downstairs Charles' punk rock iPhone http://yfrog.com/5iwa9j #
• New song completed solely on iPhone using beatmaker. Will add to blog n blip shortly. #
• @nerdist change the setting in yr php.ini file to >2mb alternatively compress yr files 2 to in reply to nerdist #
• Testing the new possibly-back-to-normal Twitterific. In the garden. Listening to Above and Beyond trance. #
• I will go to sleep soon to the sound of the rain. #
• Made with BeatMaker ? http://blip.fm/~8aa6n #
• Loving the Little Boots album #musicmonday #
• Having to retire Twitterific (now renamed not-so-fing-twitterific) due to mysterious errors. #
• trying to find out why Twitterific isn't working.. #

Could this be my absolute favourite app yet? Not entirely sure seeing as I’m very attached to Posterize, but it’s a damn close run thing. Only the other day I was thinking about having to have the fantastic Maschine, only to wake up at 4 in the morning and find this on the app store. Admittedly it costs (and at over a tenner it’s at the extreme end of the app cost range), and it’s like some kind of spastic half-arsed country cousin to Maschine, but it’s actually not bad at all. I was able to pull together some bits and pieces and cobble together a new track (all 53 seconds of it) and still have enough time to go back to sleep before morning. 01 First Stab is the result and I’ve got to say it’s pretty bloody good for something put together on a phone in bed at 5am. Definitely something I’ll be spending more time with. I’m not sure if there’s any kind of song sharing community – the BeatMaker community seems pretty new – but it would be great to hear what other people are doing with this.

A small section of the huge mud wall painting at Tate Britain

Something else I’ll be spending more time with is Posterize. A great simple, free app that turns your iPhone pictures into pseudo-polaroids and lets you scribble any message you like on it, as long as it’s 14 characters or less. Simple and potentially stupid, it’s a bit like photo candy or popcorn or crack. Once you’ve done a bit you probably want to do some more. My latest were taken at the Richard Long exhibition at the Tate Britain, which is pretty bloody fantastic too. It’s one of the first exhibitions for ages where the catalogue is genuinely worth having. And you can see what the effect of Posterize is on this too. It just makes the colours look really enticing and I love the stupid writing. You can see more Posterize images in the Posterize group on Flickr and more of my ones on my Flickr pages.

Meanwhile, putting the iPhone and its apps aside for one moment, let me roundly condemn Van Cam for introducing me to Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s Preacher comic. I’d been trying to avoid it for ages, mainly because I’d taken a somewhat irrational dislike to Dillon’s artwork (no accounting for taste), but I got suckerpunched into it when we were inadvertantly browsing through the racks at the Trafalgar Square Waterstones. Now I’ve read the first issue I’m bloody well crack happy on the book and only too aware that I’m going to have to blow hard earned cash money on the remaining 8 or 9 volumes. Bastard.

Finally, I’m loving the new Little Boots album.

Large copper sulphate crystal from Roger Hiorns Seizure installation

The Kids Who Do Art were obviously very, very clever. Having had the contents of last year’s Turner Prize substantially dissed, they decided to ensure that this year’s nominations at least produced some interesting, albeit highly exclusive, art, rather than tedious monologues of string and manikins.

This time instead of nominating some oververbal, cliche ridden artphags, the Turner Prize people have nominated personal favourite Roger Hiorns (along with three other lucky losers). Hiorns, who poured anything between 60,000 and 90,000 gallons/litres/bathtubs of copper sulphate into a council flat to ‘see what happened‘, is everything the Turner people need after the tedium and torpor of last year. Most essentially he gets noticed outside the patronisingly oblique little artworld that the Turner people inhabit. Seizure, the copper sulphate council house, is fantastically compelling and emphasises that the most extraordinary, most relevant art today is taking place outside the confines of the galleries and museums the Turner people live in. The demand for spectaculars, whether it be Seizure or the recent grafitti under Waterloo station, far outweighs that for most retrospective showpeice exhibitions. Admittedly, at least one of the other nominees, Richard Wright, is interesting, but for my money it’s Hiorns’ to lose. I particularly look forward to seeing the Little Artists’ lego version.

Meanwhile, I’ve been adding to my overbearing web presence. In particular I’ve been forced (forced you understand) to upgrade my Flickr account. You can see all my pics from the copper sulphate house, along with a whole load of other stuff, most of which has been taken by and manipulated within my iPhone. I can’t wait for Apple to put together a halfway decent camera lens for it in the next release.

I was super happy to find out that after what seemed like three or four lifetimes worth of waiting, Powers volume 12 is out.  I had worried that, as with many comics, I might have got bored during the interval and it would be a hideous disappointment, but I needn’t have wasted the worry. Powers 12 is the best volume yet, finalising the Deena Pilgrim story arc along with a bunch of in-the-wings characters. Overall it feels as bittersweet as the final episode of The Wire series 3, it’s hugely satisfying, but I’ve no idea where they’re going to take the series now. Pilgrim sitting on a beach somewhere feels very reminiscent of McNulty swinging a baton as he’s returned to the beat. Still in Bendis we trust. Like David Simon, he seems to have his finger on the pubic bone of the police procedural and is capable of playing it about at will.