Winter Bootstrap version 2

It seems it was almost the same time last year that I had to perform a bootstrapping on myself to get things moving in a positive direction.

October

Rip Van Winkle poking a 'twitter' with his stick

October was crazy.

There were too many all-nighters. Too much email, too many deadlines. It was all just too much.

The dude is off school today, he did a pretty convincing job of being ill this morning. Im not convinced anymore but it has given me a chance to quickly write something here.

Interesting things I did in October:

- Datarama 06

- Talk for New Directions - Other speakers included people from Channel 4 getting all over excited about social media, not sure what their names were but I'm pretty sure they ended with 'Van Winkle'.


- UK Gameboy Youth Orchestra - a workshop I ran, it was organised By Novak and Central Library. Teaching 8 x 14-18 yr olds how to write music on original nintendo gameboys, they then did a public performance of Terry Rileys 'In C' mp3 HERE.

- Animation Project - finally broke the back of an old project. Its all done and dusted, more on it when its all official (it's been submitted to some swanky awards).

Lots of other stuff to show, hopefully I'll get the chance. I also need to upload a dead umbrella and a WWC.

Image taken from http://wikimediafoundation.org

I dont know about you but..

I need an 8o's face workout today

datarama 06

Friday was Datarama 06 it was a good one. We had a full house towards the end of the session and a good variety of projects.

Its the sort of event that relies upon the audience. If they give then its good. If they don't then we go home early. I am glad to say we didn't go home early.

Bill Brand

WWC6

New regular stream and podcast

We (ptechnic.org) finally got round to doing a live stream. It was a simple one just to get the ball rolling. The archive of it can be found here. You can also subscribe to it as a podcast if you miss the live events. Hopefully it should be quite regular with different poly members taking charge of lots of different shows.

Oh yea, also on a totally different note I did go to the art shop yesterday. I bought some Ink sticks and grinding stones. I didn't buy any Chinese type brushes because they only had small ones and I want a one of those big muthers.