Category: Ideas

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

10/09/2013

We do Kool not Kute

I went along to the opening of a photography show curated by Jamie Brennan, “We do Kool Not Kute” and shot some video and stills. Jamie had asked me to have a go at making a video of the night. The show was great, and I really enjoyed making the media. This is the clip, there’s also a small gallery...

Featured/Ideas/Images/Video

07/09/2013

Baby Saatchi

(Updated 2018 for archive.) Baby Saatchi was a project about content, and centred around the idea of ‘Rogue, Sasstacular’. It embodied numerous sources interlinking scraped image feeds plus additional content pulled from gadgets, science, tech, design, fashion, travel and comics, so creating new identified (branded) content. I used Facebook and Flipboard to achieve this. The main hub of Baby Saatchi...

Featured/Ideas/Images

11/06/2013

Changing Universities

A project concerning change management in the higher education sector. The brief was to provide an online space for private and publicly shared discussion groups for senior executives involved in management of change, for networking, shared problem solving, case studies etc. The site (first beta) uses Drupal Commons and has been fairly successful, particularly in recruiting members in this sector....

Ideas/Learning & Teaching/Webdev/Work

RT @Knowledge21org: governments continue to act as if the music, film and publishing industry are the only ones affected by copyright law. Governments/EU must start to give equal weighting in copyright policy to R&D / science and realise much innovation comes from the public sector. #FixCopyright
RT @thenextweb: The ESA's found a way to get around using Russian fuel to power its ambitions in space https://t.co/Q2wqNyLRrl
RT @creativecommons: Last month, CC hosted two webinars on artificial intelligence. We convened panels of experts in AI, art, data, and intellectual property law to look at issues related to AI inputs and outputs. 🎥 Check out the recaps and recordings ⬇️ https://t.co/YIbS0xhLXJ
RT @tony_sutton: Bank details of South Staffordshire Water customers posted on the dark web - cc @troyhunt https://t.co/tSI7GETKeE via @computing_news
Maybe a sign of the times. Remote working esp. adjunct staff is a growing trend in HE. How unis are funded in the proposed UK repositioning of local need and support (see Brown review) might really impact this. #brownreview (correct link: https://t.co/FA94AY3nuy) https://t.co/aDyZhcWp0Z
RT @RuthArnold: Watch this space. “…universities would be included in local economic strategic decision making, alongside the NHS. The UK Infrastructure Bank would “assist and advise universities… providing matched funding of investments in local spinouts”. @dkernohan https://t.co/kCvxS8TSGw