Category: Ideas

15/05/2019

The Moment of Clarity

Another in the series of posts on analysis of data and finding clarity I’d covered my floor with printout tables from a variety of papers to help conceptualise how I would achieve what I was supposed to achieve. I didn’t know what I was really supposed to achieve beyond what it should look like. That was the key. I knew...

Featured/Ideas/PhD

06/05/2019

Radical Candor, Radical Constructivism

In a professional environment it’s difficult to speak out and say what you really think. Often you might wait until bursting point and then everything comes out under the cloud of a bad temper ‘emotional outburst’. You get a reputation for having tantrums, and anything you’ve said gets very likely dismissed without a second thought. I speak from personal experience,...

Blog/Ideas/Learning & Teaching

09/03/2019

Meme Me

Ideas for the Internet culture wars. These came about as a result of seeing what people said in tweets or Facebook posts, and are cut up snippets.

Blog/Ideas/Images/Social Media

27/01/2015

DigiClass

I’ve done some interesting work for a London based inner city charity developing a curriculum for age 12-16 yr after school classes, teaching digital skills that would lead on to accredited learning, using an approach of a ‘Level 0’ syllabus construction. The system of accreditation is based on what is provided by the British Computer Society, using a mixture of...

Ideas/Learning & Teaching/Work

24/01/2015

JOYnd

JOYnd was an idea with some concept for a ‘GPS enabled’ employability network, aimed at any person new to the job market who has marketable skills. This might be graduates, but it might also be the new entrepreneur schools or tech short-school attenders. It was at a pretty raw stage but I believe potential exists within the loose concept. Main...

Ideas

22/01/2015

Reporting Live

Reporting Live: The State of Today is a new project. I’m aggregating a number of feed sources to automate the generation of an OPML which I can then do ‘fun stuff’ with. I really like the idea of art through data visualization and this is my first serious project to do that (though Baby Saatchi may also turn into that...

Ideas/Words

17/01/2015

Mediabank

Mediabank was a six month project working with several students on the undergrad and postgrad programmes for Digital Media at London Met. My brief was to work with a small team providing practical work experience by producing suitable marketing materials to help promote the courses. I’m a big believer in ‘authentic marketing’ so it was a real pleasure to be...

Ideas/Learning & Teaching/Video/Work

08/10/2014

Photography on Instagram

I take a lot of photographs, when I go to Malta, as well as about town or in other towns like Brighton or up north. I favour Instagram to share the majority. Now and again I’ll create a gallery on this site, for less treated images at full resolution. This entry is to showcase the Instagram gallery, which changes depending...

Ideas

21/10/2013

Big Deal No 5

The Big Deal art show at Q Park, Cavendish Square, London W1. This is a short reel experience video of the opening night. The show was held in an underground car park and held more than 100 exhibits from many artists including Ms Emin. Music is by the marvellous Hypermagic, with Red Lion.

Ideas/Images/Video

10/09/2013

The Art and Science of Survival

I like Blurb books. I’ve made a few, but my favourite is a collection of poems created to match images initially grouped only because they ‘looked good together’. The idea was to start with the image, then think of a matching title, then write the poem. As an experiment in creating a collection of work which is connected, and with...

Featured/Ideas/Images

RT @EmmaKennedy: It’s #ThankATeacherDay so I’ll tell you a story. Back in 1985, sitting in the classroom of my state school, I had a moment of madness. I decided I wanted to try and get into Oxford. My school thought I was mad. And so did my parents. But I was determined..., 2 hours ago
Fun with #NVivo cases. Really time saving to label and categorise your quote collections to export as word docs and then put in tables for the thesis or further annotation. #phd #phdlife #analysis https://t.co/c12Ac3hhNS, Jun 19
RT @Gizmodo: Astronomers peer back 13 billion years and see two galaxies colliding https://t.co/m1Zus4hunC https://t.co/iJtIh5PsP3
, Jun 19
RT @Vibeology: Watch 3,000 Films Free Online from the National Film Board of Canada, Including Portraits of Leonard Cohen, Margaret Atwood & Jack Kerouac @OpenCulture - https://t.co/PNYiiUsHe3 https://t.co/YDg0vAE7hb, Jun 19
RT @doctorow: Penguin book covers by Alan Aldridge https://t.co/v2tRTDSztB /2 https://t.co/bemtXPzL0A
, Jun 16