Archive for October, 2007

On the road again

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

The BBC Innovation Labs are to continue into a third year with a series of launch days scheduled for next month. They're being produced by Matt Cashmore and Morag Cartwright following Matt Locke's departure to Channel 4.  Unexpected Media will be devising and directing the process again. The intro sessions are filling ...

Staggered

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

The Soho Project climaxed on Saturday with a live Stag hunt starting from the steps of Blake House. Weekend shoppers on Carnaby Street didn't seem unduly phased by the sight of resistance operatives attaching gold balloons to the creature's antlers.

Played Out

Monday, October 29th, 2007

The Play/Time Lab finished on Friday with seven pitches for games. These ranged from a competition to find the best playground game in the world to a simulation of a totalitarian takeover in the UK following a terrorist attack on London. A couple of the participants in the Lab have written ...

GET REAL –GET FILMED –GET SEEN

Friday, October 12th, 2007

Fictional Media have released more details about the mysterious Soho Project What’s Your Soho? Fictional Media, in assocation with the London Games Festival Fringe, bring you an entirely new concept in cross-media gaming. The Soho Project is a make-your-own reality game taking place online and on the streets of Soho. Register your own ...

Crossover UK: ‘almost life-changing’

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Crossover UK, which finished on Friday, was probably the best of the 35 creative labs we’ve done in the past 10 years. Good people, good projects, great pitches on the final day. Roy Ackerman, creative director of Diverse, described it as: 'an inspiration, enjoyable, creatively empowering, almost life-changing'. The Crossover labs ...

The Soho Project

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

What is the Soho Project? Something is going to happen. It had to. It will start on 17th October at 9am. It will take place in and around Soho. Will  you be involved? Be the first to find what the Soho Project really is, sign up.