Full of eggs and well rested, we returned to the Studio on Tuesday for some intense Playable City Award shortlisting, to track the whereabouts of the Studio’s first spacecraft in space and to teach a group of school kids how to make synchronised multi-screen movies using Nth Camera.

Tuesday was a day of intense shortlisting for the Playable City Award panel. Over the two months that we were open to submissions, 78 applications were sent in from 29 countries. We received 49% from the UK, 36% from the rest of Europe, 10% from North America and 12% from elsewhere in the world. Have a look here to see where exactly. The shortlist for this year’s award will be announced next Monday 28 April, whereupon you’ll be able to pore over images, descriptions and videos depicting some very exciting plans to make Bristol a Playable City this autumn. Make sure you’re following @PlayableCity on twitter to get all the updates.

Clare and Vic came back from Brazil this week, to see an example of the Playable City initiative at large (and to see a stark contrast between grey Bristol and rainbow coloured Recife...) watch this video chronicling the Recife: The Playable City cultural exchange, and read the recently published WIRED article about the projects involved.

Last week, the Pocket Spacecraft team got together to watch the live-streamed NASA launch of the Falcon 9 rocket containing PS1X1, the first Pocket Spacecraft in Space. This Scout Precursor Mission is part of the KickSat project, which was co-created with Pocket Spacecraft founder, Michael Johnson. See what they saw, and watch this video of the moment we were launched into the ‘personal space age’. Visit the pocket spacecraft website to find out more about their project, and have a look at this If you’d like to know exactly when the CubeSat (with all the little personal spacecrafts inside) is overhead, so you can look up and wave at them. The spacecrafts will be released from their CubeSat to make their own way in space on 4th May at 21:00.

This week, Tim, Josh, Charlotte, Mandy and Jess hosted a workshop around the REACT funded Nth Camera project. They have been organising a number of these workshops, their purpose being to teach young people how to use Nth Camera; software that allows you to synchronise filming across multiple devices. On Wednesday, ten 13 year old Fairfield pupils revelled in filming teleportation and slow motion fight scenes from multiple angles, and then viewed them back on multiple devices at once. A week before, at a workshop with young people at Knowle West Media Centre, some really interesting multi-screen films were made, including multi-angled shots of someone playing a prepared piano and synchronised films of walking feet. The Nth Camera team need people to get involved in an 18+ workshop on 14 May, so if you’re interested and have a few ideas about the kind of films that you could make with Nth Camera, come along. TVX 2014 (a huge conference exploring online video and TV interaction and user experience, taking place in June) have just accepted two proposals to demo and present Nth Screen and Nth Camera for their conference in June, so the word is spreading!