Wei Ong aka Silent Hobo decorating the wall under Park Street's Banksy for the Indigo Babies launch

Puppetry and Play in the Purple City

Posted on Fri 16 May 2014

This week, in the heat of it all, we have carried on shouting from the rooftops about Play Sandbox and this year's Artist Residency, we hosted some brilliant talks given by Studio Residents, and we announced the launch of graphic novel, Indigo Babies.Last Friday, Studio residents Tom Metcalfe, Simon…

Indigo Babies

Indigo Babies Launch

Posted on Thu 15 May 2014

Ingigo Babies, a graphic novel which follows the story of a group of youngsters in Bristol, aka the Purple City, has just been published by creative youth network and UWE research partners, South Blessed. The project emerged out of the AHRC and EPSRC funded Creative Citizens research project,…

Molly Price

Molly Price: Lunchtime Talk Write-up

Posted on Tue 13 May 2014

Molly Price Lunchtime Talk Write-upLast Friday, Molly Price, who recently joined the Studio, gave a lunchtime talk about the potential of smart fabrics, her past work with Jason Bruges Studio and her current work as UK based associate with Diffus Design, a Copenhagen based design company, who…

During the talk, Paul set us a one word challenge; 'PM Face'. This is mine and Verity's response

From Expeditions to the App Store Lunchtime Talk Write-up

Posted on Fri 2 May 2014

Last Friday, Studio resident Paul Archer spoke to us about his mischievous mobile games, and trying to blindly find a fit for a business that doesn’t fit. Paul came to the Studio after a world record breaking 15 month round the world taxi expedition, on which he came up with an idea for a business…

Press Play - Toca Aí, one of the Recife projects, which has also been shortlisted for the Playable City Award.

Puddles, Poetry and PiBot

Posted on Fri 2 May 2014

We have been showered in surprising and delightful applications to our Playable City Award, and we now have a shortlist! We also observe some lovely projects being soldered/stitched together, and read Victoria’s wonderful blog about the legacy of the Recife: The Playable City cultural exchange.It…


Over To You

Posted on Thu 1 May 2014

On Friday 11 April, as a break from our usual Lunchtime Talk format, we handed the reins over to anyone who had a project or idea that they wanted to discuss. Residents and visitors sat together to bounce ideas off each other, and to get support, feedback and inspiration. Here are a few of the key…

The moment we were launched into the 'personal space age'. Photo by NASA/Kim Shiflett

Multiscreen Slow Motion Karate Chops and a Launch into the Personal Space Age

Posted on Fri 25 Apr 2014

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…

Aquatic Pathways - One of the Recife: The Playable City projects

Space Monkeys

Posted on Thu 17 Apr 2014

The Studio is looking spritely in the sunshine, and we have reason to be in a good mood, as we receive exciting applications for this year’s Playable City Award, hear news from Brazil at the end of the Recife: The Playable City sprint, and celebrate man’s first space flight with an intergalactic…

Isobel

HighWaterLine Bristol Lunchtime Talk Write-up

Posted on Tue 15 Apr 2014

Last Friday, we were joined by Isobel Tarr, who is working with Invisible Dust to bring community project, HighWaterLine to Bristol this July. Using a football pitch marker, heaps of chalk, and a lot of help from people who live in affected areas, the project promotes awareness and discussion of…

Philo and Gilles

Growing a community of web-native storytellers - Lunchtime Talk Write-up

Posted on Thu 10 Apr 2014

On Friday 21 March, Gilles Pradeau and Philo van Kemenade came to the Studio to talk about Popathon, a series of weekend hackathons that bring filmmakers, web developers and designers together to explore web-native storytelling. Gilles and Philo were at Watershed to take part in i-Docs, an…