This is now the third year that I've taken a student trip to the SXSW Interactive event in Austin, Texas. However, this year was a little different. The panel I put forward last year had…
PanelPick Me!
For the last two years, I've taken a group of Ravensbourne students to SXSW in Austin, Texas. I'll be taking a group again in 2015, but I've also proposed presenting a panel about the live…
The Two Henrys
On June 6th and June 30th, Ravensbourne students managed two more live streaming events for the Royal Shakespeare Company, which I project managed on the Ravensbourne side, as with our Richard II event, and the…
Don’t mention Doctor Who…
[caption id="attachment_2532" align="alignleft" width="300"] David Tennant as Richard II[/caption] On Friday 15th November, Ravensbourne hosted a milestone in online video distribution. A Royal Shakespeare Company performance of Richard II starring the increasingly ubiquitous David Tennant…
Singapreneurs, anyone?
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240"] Nanyang Technological University Campus (Photo credit: Venet_)[/caption] Earlier this month I was lucky enough to be invited to Singapore to present a series of guest lectures at Nanyang Technological University's (NTU)…
Tennant’s Extra
One of my proudest moments of 2012 was the project I worked on with the Royal Shakespeare Company based around Tim Crouch's play I, Cinna. A few months ago, the Royal Shakespeare Company contacted me…
Defiance: redefining transmedia?
One of Ravensbourne's key focuses of study is how stories are now being told across multiple platforms, generally called transmedia. There was a rather significant panel at SXSW on a new venture in this area, called Defiance, which is…
Heading to South By
SXSW Interactive is allegedly the greatest event in the world for anyone in the creative Web and technology industries. Sitting here on a plane containing select former colleagues from my previous life as a computer…
Coda to Mozfest 2012
For the second year running, the university where I (mostly) work has been host to Mozilla's annual Festival. Mozilla hires the entire building – all nine floors of it – and fills it with the…