http://www.haystack.co.uk/blog The revolution may not be televised, but the television will be revolutionised. Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:32:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The latest project that I've done with Futurelab has kept up the tradition of being nominated for a New Statesman New Media award. Congratulations to the team on the nomination and commiserations that it didn't win the award this year. http://www.haystack.co.uk/blog/2008/07/07/power-league April fool's day is, it seems, confusing for some. In my morning trawl around the net newswires, I kept seeing comments from people who were unsure as to the veracity of the stories that were being posted online today -- and bemoaning the fact that this was how they felt. It ... http://www.haystack.co.uk/blog/2008/04/01/st-stupids-day Another installment of Izzy's creativity. Last time it was stop-frame animation. This time it consists of taking one of Stephen Appleby's superb cartoons literally... What she wanted, though, was to tell some stories about the adventures of Monster Potatohead -- or "Bob" as he's been officially named. Here he is with ... http://www.haystack.co.uk/blog/2008/02/26/monster-potatohead Born 13:40, 16th January, 2008 http://www.haystack.co.uk/blog/2008/01/21/alistair-jamie-piotr-wach Safe zone in case of earthquake On a recent trip to Peru, I thought it somewhat alarming that every hotel we stayed in had signs just like the one above -- but now I know that they were deadly serious. I'd never heard of them until I stumbled upon this BBC ... http://www.haystack.co.uk/blog/2007/08/18/51 Congratulations to the Create-a-scape team on the announcement of their nomination in this year's New Statesman New Media Awards. They've been selected as finalists in the education category which apparently "go to the body or project that has made the most significant contribution to education through the use of new ... http://www.haystack.co.uk/blog/2007/07/05/createascape Go on, you know you want to swap a car trip for something better -- walk, cycle, hang-glide, whatever -- perhaps even work from home for the day if your employer will let you. Whatever you do, register it on the site I just built with the chaps at Tijuana ... http://www.haystack.co.uk/blog/2007/06/21/change-your-world Girls playing traditional games in Vava'u, Tonga (mirrored from Wikipedia) Many years ago when I performed a juggling show round the world, I heard rumours of a South Pacific island where all the women were jugglers of exceptional skill. Initially, I considered the story to be a kind of urban legend ... http://www.haystack.co.uk/blog/2007/01/21/hiko-the-tongan-art-of-juggling Here's an animation that my girlfriend's nine-year-old daughter, Izzy, filmed one rainy Friday afternoon. She made Mighty Mouse from scratch, then directed his adventure through our living room in search of whatever a mighty mouse might be after. http://www.haystack.co.uk/blog/2007/01/15/mighty-mouse Bristol Wireless network coverage (Jan 2007) Bristol Wireless have completed their 5.8 GHz backbone infrastructure - it's fully tested, legal and now - most importantly - live. It gives them a network coverage of approximately 15 sq. km, which they think makes it the largest community wireless network in the UK. ... http://www.haystack.co.uk/blog/2007/01/10/congratulations-bristol-wireless Planet Tony on breakfast news Nigel from Telepathy spotted Planet 10 -- which we made together -- spinning away in the background as Blair gave a speech on education recently. This was the speech if you have the inclination to read it. http://www.haystack.co.uk/blog/2006/12/22/planet-number-10 I found this poem in some of my father's old papers last night: time and space may have their place in space--time pace but I'm convinced that ever since the time begins no space, no time nor space--time rhyme has ever stood the test of time Stanislaw Wach, Xmas 1979 http://www.haystack.co.uk/blog/2006/10/30/space-time What were they thinking? I can only guess that this local mechanic wanted to out-do his fellow mechanics by illustrating his premises with the poshest car he could think of. The trouble begins when one considers where the engine is on a 911... http://www.haystack.co.uk/blog/2006/10/13/i-see-what-they-mean-but Search no further... My friend Rob photographed this at a bus stop in London and thought I'd like it. I do. http://www.haystack.co.uk/blog/2006/03/02/looking-for-me My friends Miles and Piers made this little ditty for my birthday last year. Finally, I'm able to post it on my birthday. Thanks chaps! This is also my first podcast from this site. There's now a podcast category on this blog -- subscribe to it with the following link: ... http://www.haystack.co.uk/blog/2006/01/28/happy-birthday-to-me I just have to big up Garrick Van Buren's WP-iPodCatter WordPress Plugin. It's allowed me (with a few modifications) to add videoblogging information to the standard RSS 2.0 feeds that WordPress spits out by default so that it's compatible with iTunes. I've been busy debugging the Plugin this week, and ... http://www.haystack.co.uk/blog/2005/12/21/wp-ipodcatter The Haystack Admin System powers the new website for the Arnolfini, Bristol's premier art gallery. Well, most of it, anyway. There's a standard news system with a bespoke database for managing the events that the gallery puts on, from film to exhibitions, from dance to performance art. All that remains ... http://www.haystack.co.uk/blog/2005/11/12/new-arnolfini-website This weekend saw Bristol, er, "hosting" the latest Temporary Autonomous Art exhibition in a squatted warehouse on the banks of the Malago river in Bedminster. Although I ended up being there through a convergence of people I know in London and Bristol, I would have looked in on it anyway, ... http://www.haystack.co.uk/blog/2005/10/26/temporary-autonomous-art Yup, that's right, the shiny revamp of the Bristol Old Vic website has gone live with the new incarnation of the Haystack Admin System. The updated system bristles with a whole heap of new features and modules, but, above all, I'm particularly pleased that I can now subscribe to their ... http://www.haystack.co.uk/blog/2005/09/30/bristol-old-vic-revisited This story was prompted by my visit to New York to see Christo's Gates and the subsequent discussions that took place during a most entertaining and enlightening evening at my friends Bob and Ashton's apartment the night after their party. The party itself had been an epic affair; it started at ... http://www.haystack.co.uk/blog/2005/06/22/christo-redux