Supported by the NI Creative Industries innovation Fund we are pleased to announce our Alternate Reality Game - Black Helix - is live. 

One of the largest Alternate Reality Games to come out of Northern Ireland and over the period of four weeks the Black Helix will engage players into an interactive narrative full of games, phone calls, real world tasks and a final role playing event. 

The Black Helix is an ARG in…

Leading players from Scotland's digital media and television industries are to outline the benefits of collaborative working at a national business development event next month. 

Yellow Brick House Media, a new consortium producing cutting-edge broadcast and internet content, was formed with specialist support from Co-operative Development Scotland (CDS) and will tell their story as part…

BIOSUITE : NOISE FOR THE WORLD

Introducing Biosuite, an experimental marriage of technology, content and scientific research that delivers a new kind of film viewing experience, in which the film content varies according to the emotional responses of the audience, detected by a discrete hand sensor.Biosuite is a collaboration between Belfast-based production…

Following news that Dundee College is to axe a multitude of courses, including HND Visual Communications and Music, I am intrigued to garner a response from members to this and similar issues facing the Creative Industries over the next couple of years.

In a relatively buoyant industry comparative to many in Scotland and indeed the rest of the UK, surely we should be investing in talent and developing strategy at policy level to streamline delivery of knowledge, whilst still…

Apptopus Inc., has developed a first of it’s kind app that helps mobile directors produce movies using multiple iPhones as live cameras. It’s called Collabracam.

See demo video here on YouTube.

Thanks to…

To round off St Valentine's week (if there's such a thing) a romantic blog entry about the most ancient form of courtship... er... no courtship. 

Go see my Wordpress Site! 

Belfast’s Filmtrip Productions releases a new kind of multimedia production for fans of dark comedy and creativity worldwide, starting with an online campaign of preview…

Glasgow Music City Radio: free, 24-hour streaming showcase of Glasgow’s finest bands, solo artists, record labels, radio programmes, and musical organisations

We’re looking for new listeners and contributors – if you’re interested in Glasgow’s music scene, tune in! http://www.op…

Tip #08: Looking good on an iPhone or Mobile

Whether a learning environment is in a hut or a skyscraper, the senses of place that matter to children are universal.  These include a sense of light and space, a sense of scale, a sense of comfort and a sense of inspiration.  Places that provide these are places that people, of all ages, want to be…

We're inviting a small number of brains to take part in a focus group session to help improve and develop the Landshare website, and would like to hear from anyone interested in taking part.



The session will take place at the KEO Films office in Govan, Glasgow, on Thursday 17th February from 11am - 2pm. You don't need any experience in order to take part - we want to speak to a broad mix of site users and complete newcomers to the site, to find out what you like and…

Hi folks, I thought this was worth a post in its own right...

A new games publisher, focusing on social games (Facebook) and smartphones (Apple/Android) launched today, with an announcement in Holyrood by Alex Salmond.

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Fablevision Studios has been working alongside the staff and pupils of Govan High throughout 2010 to document the activities of the school in its Centenary year in order to produce a commemorative DVD to celebrate the achievements of the school and its pupils over the past 100 years. This has included filming a series of celebratory events and interviewing current and former pupils and staff. Also including a few celebrity ex-pupils Sir Alex Ferguson and songwriter Bill Martin, the oldest…

The first short story I've written since school! :-/

And for those of you who don't want to read a lot of text, I've recorded a spoken word version on my Youtube Channel. 

Go see my Wordpress Blog. 

As SXSW approaches the preparations machine has just notched into a new gear, and thankfully there's some cracking folks in Belfast who gave up their Sunday afternoons to come and get plugged in.

The day consisted of 2 groups split up, one for audience analytcis and emotional response…

It seems that we are readily impressed when ‘ordinary people’ strive for Grand Designs – but do our bureaucratic utmost to prevent professional designers chasing the same high aspirations.  This is perverse.

In other creative endeavours this doesn’t happen.  Yes, we applaud when an…

Hi Claire!

If you're not Claire, then sorry, I was making a point. Private joke. Bite me.