Posted on Fri 19 Dec 2008
I am just beginning to get started with looking at ethical issues around the sort of work we all do, to try and alleviate some of the niggling feeling I get when hearing what wonderful pervasive stuff is being developed. Having worked quite extensively with young people in a variety of settings over…
Posted on Wed 17 Dec 2008
Our December session of Gadget Club was held in the Arnolfini light studio, which they kindly let us use as pmstudio was full of plone developers that weekend. So we got together and played with magnets, batteries and bits of wire, to make homopolar motors, basically making things spin. We also…
Posted on Fri 12 Dec 2008
Today Happy Packages team members Ben and Tom (me) tried to test out the new idea for sharing location based content. You can read the previous post, but a quick summary of the idea is people leaving their thoughts on venues/art/places of interest around town, and those being available for others to…
Posted on Wed 10 Dec 2008
Without too much argument the eShed team selected the obligatory 24 films for the ED08 calendar from over 40 that were submitted, all made by young people. Sam and Taz made a trailer of clips from the films which you can see on You Tube or, if you hang around in Millennium Square near the PM Studio…
Posted on Tue 9 Dec 2008
Borders – Festival / workshop /network meeting, hosted by Cinémas du Palais, Créteil, Paris. 18th – 22ND NOVEMBER 2008. Liz Milner and Sam Woodcock from eShedBorders is an international network of film-related organisations who firmly believe that film has the power to…
Posted on Tue 9 Dec 2008
The official line isn't ideal, since we're a little off target in terms of nailing down business partners for a key milestone, but the far more exciting and important news is that the idea has undergone a rennaisance! Following our meeting with Sharon from the Watershed we went back to the drawing…
Posted on Wed 3 Dec 2008
The studio is missing a few residents this week as they have been whisked off to Belfast to both attend and mentor workshops at mscapeFest08. After a great conference last year, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories has organised a two day conference for mediascape, pervasive, locative and interactive media…
Posted on Wed 3 Dec 2008
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Posted on Wed 3 Dec 2008
The studio is missing a few residents this week as they have been whisked off to Belfast to both attend and mentor workshops at mscapeFest08.
Posted on Thu 20 Nov 2008
Copywriter, provocateur and whirlwind-wordsmith Sharon Clark from the Watershed kindly spent a frantic 2 hours with the Happy Packages team on Wednesday. It was a really interesting session, both challenging and inspiring in equal measure and the unanimous verdict was "Why didn't we chat with…
