Day One in the School of Media, Design & Technology (working title)
So today was the first day of Engineering & Informatics as an entity, and the first day of the three schools that make it up: Engineering, Computing & Telecoms and…
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If you don’t use it, you lose it. Thoughts about the National Media Museum
Long before I worked in Bradford, I visited the National Media Museum, then called the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television. I was in Yorkshire for a few days,…
Those who can, do. Those who can’t…
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A new Bowie album? How delightfully unoriginal!
So there’s a Bowie studio album at number one. How very 1993/1984/1983/1980/1974/1973/1973. Time to reminisce. As a young and impressional youth, my first single was “Are ‘friends’ electric?” by Tubeway…
Hey, the controller’s got a light on it! Cool!
After waiting eagerly for the PS4 announcement last night, what can I say? No really, what can I say that won’t sound like I’m just not bothered? Besides the disappointment…
Fun. And Games.
This year I’m teaching a module again that I used to teach many moons ago: History and Conventions of Computer Games. It was actually called H&C of Video Games way back…
BBC Future Media open evening
Tuesday, after popping over to the LSx Open Cafe (the first time in 5 years of invitations, and well worth finally getting there), it was off to Media City in Salford…
BAF 2012: pop-up books, soap carts, power stations and Chuck Jones. Not your average animation festival. – Part 1
What a festival! I guess it may just be because I managed to make it to more sessions than in recent years, but I thought this year’s BAF was one…
Bradford via Bournemouth, London and Salford. Quite a couple of weeks.
Busy, busy, busy. Good job Nicki’s not about to have our second child any day (oh, hang on…). First of was a trip to Bournemouth for the Media Education Summit,…