Here’s a new track from Dognoize, of which I am one half.
Think this may appear in my animated graphics assignment too..
Not so friendly..
Great stop motion app for the Iphone called ‘Frames’. Mr Friendly shows off his potty mouth.
Manchester Digital
I went down to the Manchester Digital open day at the town hall this afternoon; meet some nice folk who gave some excellent advice which I thought I’d share with yoose.
- Online Portfolio; pretty much everyone I spoke to mentioned having an online portfolio. This is especially important in the digital/creative world as it helps prospective employers view your work in one place. EVERYTHING should be included (Music, films, animations, twitter, blogs etc). Carbonmade looks like an interesting site to start putting a portfolio together.
- It’s still a case of who you know; this again was a recurring theme amongst the people I spoke too. It’s definitely not too early to be thinking about contacting employers in preparation for life after Uni. Attending events like the one today are very necessary in building up contacts and networking.
- Work experience/Internships; the lady I spoke to from the BBC (and there was a hell of a queue to speak to them) said the best way to get in with them is to do some work experience with them. They get so many applications that If you’re known to them it gives you a better chance of employment further down the line. The Beeb have a dedicated website for work experience which you can view here.
It’s well worth signing up with Manchester Digital (It’s free if you’re a student) as they’ll keep you up to date with all the latest goings on.
Best Taxi Ride Ever
Saturday night out; the taxi ride in to town was pretty special. There are a couple of glitches but you get the idea. If you ever use Olympic cabs be sure to ask for the disco taxi. If only all taxi drivers were like Dave.
A Photo A Day 2012
Pretty much what it says on the tin, the aim is to take a picture everyday this year. January is nearly done, have a look at my Flickr for the images so far (WordPress won’t let me embed for some reason):
Cash rules everything around me..
Dollar, dollar bill y’all.
Student fee’s are obviously a hot topic at the moment, the government recently sanctioned universities to charge up to £9000 per year for certain courses. How is this going to affect education?
Press Pause Play
‘The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities.
But does democratized culture mean better art or is true talent instead drowned out? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world’s most influential creators of the digital era’
Lots more over at PressPausePlay
Pebbles & Boulders
I was watching ‘Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse’ the other night as we’d discussed it in class a couple of weeks ago and I’d not seen it for a while (if you haven’t seen it I’d throughly recommend it as it’s almost as epic as the film).
Just before the end credits roll the director Francis Ford Coppola tells us of his hopes for a new generation of film makers, with people who wouldn’t normally make movies using modern technology to do so. This was in 1979 and the new technology he’s talking about is the 8mm camera. Kind of fits in with everything we’ve been doing (We Think, Rufi etc).
I’m beginning to think that Rufi is a state of mind..
Rufi Franzen Storify
Here’s the finished Rufi Franzen Storify; Not every single tweet has gone in as it got pretty hectic towards the end (especially the Q&A interactive broadcast) but you’ll get the idea.
Best tweet award goes to Yuki:
@RufiFranzen: please tell me we aren’t going to get murdered. lol
Who is Rufi Franzen?
To tell this particular tale we have to start at the beginning..
As we began the advanced multimedia part of our PSVT course, a few students received a very mysterious letter in the mail:
