Music and video games report
This report was the result of my growing interest in video games as a cultural phenomenon. I wanted to explore their educational potential, and their place as a entry point for arts and…
Media Festival Arts 2010 – trying out Prezi
Prezi is an alternative to PowerPoint or Keynote available online or on a desktop application. This is a presentation I knocked up in around half an hour, kind of like a test review…
One “digital” piece I forgot to include – Kutiman’s Thru You mash-up…
Thanks to Conor and Tim for your comments. Here’s another artwork that I think is great (and one of a very, very few mash-ups of any quality). Alongside Steely Dan’s “Peg” and “Babylon…
Where to find “digital art” – A bluffers’ guide
I’m going to put up a few posts in the next couple of days inspired by a really interesting time at emap’s Media Festival Arts (#tmfa10) at the Roundhouse in London last week….
Visionary People’s Music Store shutting shop
I got the email pasted below yesterday from Ged Day, the founder of PeoplesMusicStore.com (and the brain behind Warp’s brilliant and seminal Bleep store). PeoplesMusicStore.com is (or now was) an online music retailer which…
iPhone Children’s book
Hi Pete, I think you might get it more when you see the YouTube Basically, A-B is mad about books, but madder about watching films on my iPhone. I thought it would be…
Getting my head around GIL…
The British Council loves a TLA (that’s a three letter acronym) – GIL is the Global Innovation Lab: a project, currently in its Build and Test phase, with Global Innovation Lab (GIL) has three…
Selling music again (and again and again…)
So I ripped my CD of Crosby, Stills & Nash’s eponymous debut album onto Rhythmbox. I only bought it recently as an audio accompaniment to Barney Hoskyns’ Hotel California. After I ripped it,…
How I learned to love Ubuntu… (tales from a Linux newbie)
Okay, so it’s not the most original start to a blog post, but I’m loving my Ubuntu at the moment. I’ve been researching distros and quietly trying them out for around a year….
