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…
TeenTech Triumph
[caption id="attachment_2631" align="alignright" width="281"] BA (Hons) Web Media student James Jackson interviews Maggie Philbin[/caption] The Mozilla Festival, which we have hosted at Ravensbourne for the last three years, is a great place to have serendipitous…
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…
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…
Ripe at last!
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…
Popcorn.js Experiments – Part 1
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…
E-commerce for MintArts.com with Prestashop
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…