Some months ago, Ravensbourne was approached by the London Symphony Orchestra to create a promotional website for its St Luke’s venue, including videos explaining the use of the various rooms at the premises. I pitched the idea of a map-based interface using the plans of St Luke’s as the route to the videos for each […]
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 I, Cinna event with which we began our relationship with the RSC. The two June events were so close together […]
The Mozilla Festival, which we have hosted at Ravensbourne for the last three years, is a great place to have serendipitous meetings. This year I was lucky enough to encounter the incredible Maggie Philbin, most well known for her work presenting the BBC’s Tomorrow’s World and Multi-Coloured Swap Shop TV programmes. Currently, however, she is […]
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 was streamed to more than 30,000 schoolchildren around the UK, with some in Australia, the US and elsewhere in the world as well. The Richard II performance had been […]
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 again to help run a similar event, only this time even bigger. The new project will be taking place on […]
It has been an exciting few days. The musical collective I have been working with for almost two years has finally started releasing its first few tracks. I play trumpet and “cybertrumpet” on quite a number of them, and it’s the first music I have been involved in for over a decade that I really […]
Popcorn.js is a great library of script commands for controlling video, and triggering events from the timeline to make the content more interactive, created under the auspices of the Mozilla Foundation. It’s a powerful library that has been described as jQuery for video. I wanted to try out its possibilities for something artistic, inspired […]
E-commerce has been one of the main drivers of the Internet age, with sites like Amazon and Ebay becoming household names from nowhere in scarcely a decade. Their popularity has changed the face of retail in the “real world” forever. The latest trend of the last couple of years has been the flash sale, pioneered […]
