Congratulations to Paul Farley and his Tag team in Dundee. Tag's orbital farming game Astro Ranch is one of four profiled games in Apple's global store-front along with Star Wars, Dr Seus and F1.

Great to see another… Continue

c. George Logan

I have been haunted by a radio interview I heard yesterday when a mother living in the Red Road flats asked, "how can you explain to a 4 year old why folk are flying out of windows?" The tragic suicide of three asylum seekers f… Continue

We're delighted that Irene is to screen in competition at the Northern Lights Film Festival in Newcastle later this month. Northern Lights has a rather unusual approach to a competitive shorts programme and the festival invites the movers and shakers from the worlds of film, tv and games to talk about how they spot, manage and market breakthrough talent.

"We want to kno… Continue

Opera glasses from profzuckrs flickr photostream

Research into the NT live experiment shows just what a success this early stage is. Audiences at the live streamings in cinemas experience the 'live' experience not just as much as… Continue

Late last year we provided key sequences for the BBC2
children's programme Ed & Oucho's Excellent Inventions, broadcast on March 6
and still available here…

The BBC approached us with the idea of sending Excellent Adventures presenter Ed Petrie… Continue

Sharlyn Lauby at Mashable has just posted an article about Google Wave - yes I know, we'd pretty much forgotten about it.

For my tuppence worth I offer this (as discussed with… Continue

The great US photographer Diane Arbus was fascinated by twins, something about their genetic replication, apparent closeness to each other and the idiosyncratic way that they can sit side-by-side similar and yet so profoundly unique. Twins have always compelled artists and writers… Continue

Two frequent comments at workshops: “We can’t tell you what we need unless we see some plans” - “We don’t believe you’ll listen to what we say because you’ve already drawn up the plans.” Spot the fatal flaw in reconciling this philosophical impasse.

George Orwell, in his novel 1984, talks about ‘doubl… Continue

Digital creative firms have condemned the BBC's plan to cut its online spend by 25%, saying the move betrays the Corporation's charter.

Whilst much of the cmpaigning so far has been around 6Music and the Asian radio network, both of which have active Facebook protest-groups, the next wave… Continue

By definition, Digital Asset Management (otherwise known as DAM) includes tasks and decisions relating to ingesting, annotating, cataloging, storage, retrieval, repurposing and the distribution of an organisation’s digital assets. DAM, in its earlier days, was referred to as optimising, maintaining, thinning and exporting files. As digital libraries grew so too did the need to do more with the assets contained therein. DAM has since evolved to become an essential part of an organisation’s busine… Continue