Liverpool Processing Meetup
We have started hosting a meetup at our base the Ranch for people interested in using Processing, the programming environment designed for artists and visual thinkers. I’ve put off learning Processing properly for years, but having recently got excited by casual ambient games such as Osmos, Processings’ capacity to export to Android, I have...
As swan journey ends, another begins
On March 18th, Grace completed an extraordinary feat, pedalling the 127 miles of the Leeds – Liverpool canal. It was a massive achievement for Grace, and of course for the BBC Radio Leeds team who seconded her on this crazy mission, and between them they raised over £50k for Sport Relief. The project was remarkable...
Liverpool Ships and Sailors
Although our Mapping and Memory project has close, we’ve kept in contact with some of the participants, particularly the group known as the ‘Retired Merchant Seafarers’. It turns out that the group used to run a website www.liverpoolsailorsandships.com where they had collected lots of stories and photographs and quite a large following. But, as happens,...
Project Triangle
In September 2009, 12 young Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender people from Merseyside took part in a five-day cultural exchange trip to Auschwitz and Warsaw working with a group of young Polish LGB & T people from the Campaign Against Homophobia (KPH). The exchange provided the group with an appreciation of the Holocaust and fate...
Pier Head Time Warp
The Pier Head Time Warp was an interactive video event by Re-Dock at the Museum of Liverpool on Saturday the 15th Oct. We were asked by the Museum of Liverpool to run an activity that would get people working creatively with archive video, so we invented a time machine. This time machine was in reality,...
Are You Putting Eyeshadow On That Swan?
Grace the swan was moved from her home in the Albert Dock to Static Gallery on Tuesday where she was washed down and repainted in preparation for her journey to Barrow. I can now proudly add ‘hand painted a pedalo’ to my CV. We also designed and created a hundred (limited edition!) Swandelier badges, which...
Swan Pedalo Postcards
Two of the four postcards created to advertise ‘Swan Pedalo Broadcasts’ which will be aired live from Grace the pedalo at FON (Festival of Noise) in Barrow Park on the 5th and 6th of August.
3D Thought Shapes
I am working with a group of young people at Weatherhead high school, on a project exploring what our thoughts might look like if we could see them all around us. The group have been sculpting 3D models representing different breeds of ideas, memories and emotions using Blender.
Restrictions 1
Revisiting the Canal& Map. The idea that ‘Restrictions make us more Creative’ will probably ring true to anyone who has seen what George Lucas did with a budget of millions, once he was able to ‘fully realise’ his original vision for the Star Wars Saga. I’m not suggesting an absolute rule here, but this is...
Games V’s Films
I am currently working with Fact, on a Computer Game Design project with a group of young people at St Francis of Assisi School, Liverpool. The group have spent the past five weeks developing their creative programming skills using a variety of problem solving activities, and they have now started to create their final games....
R.L.F.C In the Loop
As a result of their first workshop with the Loop project, the lads at Rice Lane City Farm created this film about the places that you can easily get to from the Hartley Avenue entry/exit point of the Liverpool Loop Line. Using a hula hoop to represent the area, they added images of the different...
