Andy Polaine
Fix for Modifier Keys not working in Adobe CS2 Applications
It’s not really on-topic for Playpen, but I’m hoping this might help others out there who have had the same problem with modifier keys suddenly not …
Writing & Thinking
A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.
Steve Scott - animator and illustrator to the stars
My mate and erstwhile work compadre, Steve Scott, has finally updated his website with lots of new goodies. If you’re a fan of illustration and …
Podcast with Matt Clark from United Visual Artists
Following on from my last post about Hereafter, my podcast interview with Matt Clark from United Visual Artists is now online at Core77. We chat about a range …
Hereafter by United Visual Artists
United Visual Artists have a lovely new piece called Hereafter, which is very similar to elements of my Time Sketches in that it layers frames from a video …
This Happened, Once Again
As Knotty pointed out in the comments, Chris O’ Shea will be hosting This Happened in conversation with Crispin Jones, Rory Hamilton, The Science Of, …
Out of Bounds interview with Chris O' Shea
Chris O’ Shea recently completed Out of Bounds during his residency at the Design Museum. Chris also writes the very good Pixelsumo from which I …
Interactive Wall of 'Water'
Camera-tracking along with multi-touch seem to be unstoppable at the moment. This is an interactive wall of ‘water’ for Lenovo’s HQ in North …
Dan Saffer on Design Research Lies
Brilliant clip of Dan Saffer doing the start of his How To Lie With Design Research talk at the 2007 Design Research conference. If you’ve ever been to …
Light on Pixelsumo
Nice set of posts on playful, interactive household lights from Chris over at Pixelsumo. I’m particularly partial to Hector Srrano’s Superpatata …
Respect for Akismet
Akismet does an amazing job, it has to be said. Comment spammers do a terrible job.
Google Moon faked in a holodeck
I’m not actually a believer that NASA faked the moon landings but had an amusing moment looking through Google’s wonderful new Google Moon where …
The Changing Culture of Mobile Phones
In France at least (which is good, because we usually only get a very Anglo-Saxon view of these things). Experientia have translated the summary of a report by …
Evolution of Dance vs. Titanic
I’ve just been chatting with my online students in Australia about emerging media and it led me to do some quick sums on the merits of Titanic, the …
Podcast of Creative Collaboration and The Future of Education
If you have been missing the sound of my voice (or have no idea what my faltering, mumbling sounds like) the podcast of my seminar at Urban Learning Space about …
Search people in video
Interesting video search beta over at Reuters Labs that allows you to search for people in videos by just entering their name as a text query (obvious that …