Category: Creative

Open Coffee launch details

I mentioned earlier on Twitter that I was hoping to confirm some additional support for Open Coffee, well Starbucks are getting behind us and offering free coffee, free muffins and free WiFi to attendees of Open Coffee at 9am Tuesday, 6 May. We’ll be downstairs at the Starbucks on Park Street (map). Kick off will… Continue reading Open Coffee launch details

Geeks & investors, are they oil & water? Lets mix it up a bit…

There’re a ton of networking events taking place in Bristol, but there appears to be a gap around the business of doing business in the digital media / interactive technologies / software development type area. Simon Bunker launched Open Coffee Bristol almost a year ago but it never really achieved critical mass and became a… Continue reading Geeks & investors, are they oil & water? Lets mix it up a bit…

The Creative Economy Programme, s’wot that then?

(I’ve just joined the Institute of Knowledge Transfer team of bloggers, this is a repost of my inaugural submission.) After a long consultation, the Government published their strategy paper ‘Creative Britain – New Talents for the New Economy‘ on Friday, 22 Feb. The commitments take their inspiration from the Work Foundation’s 2007 publication ‘Staying Ahead‘.… Continue reading The Creative Economy Programme, s’wot that then?

Interesting Games Laboratory – iglab

A new initiative from the Pervasive Media Studio (currenly only with a Media Sandbox website) is the iglab. I was a bit late, but the games were in full flow when I arrived. Simon Johnson was organising the evening and getting people to ‘swarm develop’ the games played. The focus was on ‘interestingness‘ than cunning… Continue reading Interesting Games Laboratory – iglab

Digital Future(s)

Busy couple of days, I spent Tues at the South West Screen 1-day conference/seminar on Digital Film. The event was run as a series of interview/discussions chaired by Nick Roddick and generally flowed quite well, though there was an undercurrent that all this digital stuff was a threat to ‘proper’ film making; which of course… Continue reading Digital Future(s)