Andy Polaine
Some thoughts about life as a creative individual
This is a piece I wrote and read out in a lecture a couple of years ago, just before I left my teaching job to move back to Germany. Lots of students have often …
Writing & Thinking
A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.
Ray Lewis in Village Voice
Nice to see photographer par excellence, Ray Lewis, featured in New York magazine, Village Voice. The article examines the bike clubs of NYC. Ray and Rachel …
Digital media discussion after the horse has bolted
Anyone would think owning a TV station was a good idea. The Australian’s Mark Day wrote a couple of insightful articles today about Senator Helen …
Guardian launches 'Comment is Free'
Guardian Unlimited has just launched its new multi-writer blog and communtiy called Comment is Free. Not only are the writers of high calibre (which will make …
Retrievr
Check out Retrievr - it allows you to search the Flickr image archive by drawing a sketch (or uploading another picture) instead of by tags. A kind of visual …
My 'Time Sketches' on display at the Powerhouse Museum
I’m very pleased to announce that two of my interactive works are currently on display at the Powerhouse Museum thanks to the wonderful people over at …
WP Lightbox plug-in
I have just installed Safirul Alredha’s Wordpress plugin version of Lokesh Dhakar’s Lightbox scripts to display pop-up images in a more pleasant way …
Flagr - tagging all over the world
It had to happen: Flagr is a combination of Google Maps, Flickr and Delicious wrapped up in a nice AJAX interface. Basically it allows you to …
Cock-A-Doodle new from Poke
Check out the excellent and hilarious new offering from my pals at Poke called Cock-A-Doodle. Great to see Flash becoming less vector-shash and great to see …
More viral beer ads
Not that the advertising world is totally lacking in originality or anything (ahem), but following on from the success of Carlton & United Breweries’ …
Me in Suffolk care of Fleabilly
Suffolk Originally uploaded by fleabilly. A wonderful, weird shot of me taking a photo at my parents’ place in Suffolk thanks to the ever-brilliant Ray …
More multi-touch interfaces
Chris O’ Shea over at Pixelsumo just mailed me with a great round-up of other multi-touch interfaces for those of you interested. (His blog makes good …
Beyond the single jab - the multi-touch interface
Robert just sent me a YouTube link to Jeff Han’s amazing Multi-Touch interface. It allows multiple points of contact, which means you can do things like …
Our VW Polo for sale!
I don’t normally use my blog for my daily personal stuff as I try to stick to the themes of play, online culture, technology and writing. But we’re …
BBC Annotatable Audio Project
And whilst we’re at in on the audio front, check this out. Very smart. The BBC are doing some exciting stuff with all that licence money.