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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
The final act of Crossover UK was Cross-Platform Pitch competition at the Doc/Fest in Sheffield. The whole DigiDocs strand was well attended and we had a full house for the pitches.
Four of the teams which formed for the last two days of Crossover in October chose to pitch the projects ...
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
The Doc/Fest in Sheffield started last night with a fine documentary about Joy Division written by Jon Savage.
The festival starts in earnest today. It has been transformed over the past two years, doubling its budget and the number of delegates attending. They've also introduced a 'Digi-docs' strand looking at the ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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Thursday, June 28th, 2007
In a special event at the BFI South Bank, InSync is presenting one of the leading figures responsible for revolutionizing the animation industry over the past two decades.
Michael Johnson heads the team which designs, develops and supports the pipeline for film development, story, and editorial at Pixar. He has been ...
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Sunday, June 10th, 2007
An article in this week’s Economist is good on Apple’s approach to innovation.
One of its key insights is that Apple’s success isn’t based on inventing new technology in its own internal R&D labs. Rather it keeps a close eye on ideas and innovations developed in other companies or university labs, ...
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Friday, June 1st, 2007
While much attention on UK broadcasters' relationship with the internet has recently been focused on the BBC's continuing to launch the iPlayer, something interesting has been quietly happening down at itv.com.
Films of Record have been producing a series of short documentaries designed for the internet, Web Lives. The series ...
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Thursday, May 31st, 2007
I’ve run into a strange problem with my mail and web service provider, Dreamhost.
Every so often I send a mail about events that I’m producing. On each occasion I go through the my contact database and select the people and groups I think would be interested in attending. I try ...
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