Edinburgh's Hogmanay: 'Big Bang' on 1 January 2013 #blogmanay
One element of Edinburgh's Hogmanay festival is often a piece of street theatre designed to capture the audience's imagination, provide a spectacle and some encourage some re-imagining of the city as a cultural, creative space. Some of Edinburgh's...
#futr Day 2: FutureEverything, Manchester, May 2012
Day two of FutureEverything dawned after the long round trip to Preston where I was staying. I???ve written up the first day, over the course of about 1,500 words here. As for day two you can read the organisers??? own thoughts here. But to the bu...
#futr Day 1: FutureEverything, Manchester, May 2012
Top image: 'Deirdre_BlueOrange_Futr' / flickr.com/photos/stuartchilds/6998237316 [This is the FutureEverything logo.]Bottom image: @jennifermjones discusses London 2012 as a media spectacle [Taken by me.]
December catch-up: creativity applied conference (RSA, ICC, Creative Scotland, NESTA and others)
In the short lull between teaching and marking, when I should be working directly on my PhD research, I have a chance to write up some notes from a conference I attended on 21 November 2011: Adding Value ??? Creativity Applied. Held at the Royal Col...
#SMWglasgow Social media, research, academia and industry
A week ago, while Edinburgh was enjoying one of its local holidays, I took the express train to Glasgow ??? partly for an Apple Store pilgrimage, partly to attend Jillian Ney's (@jillney; blog here) session as part of Social Media Week. Glasgow was ...
Let me count the ways.
A late night in the offing in SW19 tonight: Andy Murray slugging it out under the roof at Wimbledon as the rain falls elsewhere. It wasn't like that last night as I strolled along the South Bank under a crimson sunset, glinting off the London Eye ...
The Net Works ??? 100% Open
via 100open.com As I've always said, this blog is written largely for me. A place to record thoughts, experiences and progress. But it's also where I keep useful links with a little comment as well: a more engaging Delicious perhaps. So here's a l...
#EdTwestival: bringing it all together.
Yesterday was Twestival, in cities across the globe. I've written about my involvement in Edinburgh's Twestival before, so a quick follow up post is in order.First up, here's the event's site: http://edinburgh.twestival.com/The big numbers: over 3...
Current projects: Twestival and Breda.
I'm involved in two very interesting projects at the moment and this post is to introduce them both and record where we're up to just now with them.___First up is Edinburgh Twestival 2011. Every year cities around the world put together an event f...
Click for curtain-up: technology and theatre | Culture | The Guardian
via guardian.co.uk Theatre has the best technology? A quick post from a Guardian article looking at technology-in-theatre, as fostered by a 'Pervasive Media Studio' project in Bristol. The analogy is with the use of surround sound in the movies: i...