Month: August 2007
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Erm…
I should like to point out that I have never read/rated anything by Izaskun Arretxe. Nor am I particularly interested in primary school poetry from the West Midlands (doubtless good as it is). Although I was intrigued enough by the name to go and found out what he/she had written. Perhaps this is a whole…
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Art 2.0
This, I think, is a great use of Flickr. Tate Britain has launched an initiative to extend their How We Are photography project (a look at the ‘journey of British Photography’) into something called How We Are Now (a contemporary look at British life). They have invited the great British public to submit photographs of…
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Learning to Love Uncertainty
We live in a world that loves certainty. We strive for it, value it, claim we have it when often we don’t. Some theorists used to believe that the foundations of fact and objectivity on which science appear to be based meant that it had all the answers. Science produced knowledge, but as concepts such…
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In the Woods
Short and charming animated film which uses rotoscoping – a technique in which an animator has traced over live-action film movement, frame by frame.
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Beginners Guide To Giving a Damn
Iain Tait is championing this video produced by Airside and Mother . It has a simple but important message. It’s also funny, watchable and really rather good. So please blog it, visit it on You Tube, link to it, digg it, stumble it, whatever you can do to spread the word…
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Top Digital Trends, Top Start-Ups
OK so here’s a mash-up of my own. The top digital trends ripe for start up cash combined with the top UK start-ups that have already got it… If you’ve got any spare cash, first up is an interesting take here from VC David Biesel on seven "uber-trends" ripe for start-up investment briefly paraphrased here…