The Ethics of Happy Packages

Posted on Thu 26 Mar 2009

The Happy Packages team has been invited to explore the ethics surrounding our project today with some of the country's top thinkers. We'll be presenting the project in all it's detail to Pervasive Media Ethics group (http://pervasivemediaethics.blogspot.com/) who are then invited to discuss…

I felt really cool here

Where did you feel fruity?

Posted on Wed 25 Mar 2009

How do you define an area you want to digitally record you emotions at? For recording a picture's location, companies like Flickr ask photographers to add mark a point on their map. A Latitude and Longitude which effectively says, "this is a picture of here". Makes sense.But would that…


The Hat Game Buzz

Posted on Mon 16 Mar 2009

Studio Residents Simon Johnson and Simon Evans of Simon Games last week launched The Hat Game as part of The Umbrella Group's activities at the SXSW festival in Austin Texas. Funded by iShed and Arts Council England, the pair have inspired a wild chase through the streets of Austin in search of a…

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An exercise in language - Happy Packages is a Gangsta!

Posted on Fri 13 Mar 2009

The Show Me The Money sessions at the studio have been encouraging us all to think about how we describe what we do. Sharon from the Watershed has also come in and talked with us about the language we use, the people we want to target as users, the companies we might partner with. So as the product…


Pervasive Media Studio awarded for Outstanding Contribution to Innovation

Posted on Fri 13 Mar 2009

Last night the Pervasive Media Studio took home the Media Innovation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Innovation. The awards, which once again celebrated the innovative use of screen-based media, were presented at a glittering gala at the Ashton Gate Stadium in Bristol. Amongst the lucky…

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iPhones for toddlers...

Posted on Wed 11 Mar 2009

I've just seen the funniest thing!In Broadmead shopping for shoes (in an impossibly upmarket shop you understand) I spotted a mother with her baby, parked nearby in a pushchair. The mother was, shall we say, from South of the river...but none the less she had a shiny new iPhone. The baby was 2 years…

Show Me The Money

Pitching Pervasive Media

Posted on Tue 10 Mar 2009

In the third of the Studio’s Show Me the Money sessions organised by Thought Den and Jon Dovey

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Birds Eye View film festival mscape workshop

Posted on Mon 9 Mar 2009

I just got back from Birds Eye View, where I gave a short intro to mscaping for beginners. Amazingly it wasn't just attended by people who had tried out e:merge (Jackie Calderwood's filmic piece running for the duration of the festival) or who had gone to Clare Reddington's talk about pervasive…