Andy Polaine
Last.fm - a replacement for Pandora (already)?
Not long ago I wrote about Pandora the service that allows you to find music similar to your own tastes. It trawls through the Music Genome Project database to …
Writing & Thinking
A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.
ONEDOTZERO_10: Call for submissions
Time for any of my ex or current students and general creative bods to send out their DVDs. onedotzero, the world’s largest digital film festival, is …
New work from Binalogue
My friends (and ex-students) over at Binalogue recently re-vamped their site (though being the perfectionists they are it’s going to have even more done …
Placeopedia - linking Wikipedia with Google Earth
No idea why I didn’t blog about this a while ago, but I just pulled Placeopedia’s feed into Google Earth. Placeopedia links Wikipedia articles with …
Less Work, More Play - presentation at Neue-Digitale
I’ve just had a very enjoyable afternoon at Neue-Digitale in Frankfurt interviewing co-founder, Olaf Czeschner, for Desktop but also giving a presentation …
Ninja-Man hits the one million mark
Three of my ex-students, Adam Searle, Johnny Jei Le, and Jason Chow spent the last year re-building a Flash platform game called Ninja-Man that they originally …
Time Smear Demo
Along with the Flow paper I just posted I also showed a demo of my Time Smear piece, which uses a slitscan method that is rather popular in interactive circle …
The Flow Principle in Interactivity
The Proceedings of the second Australasian conference on Interactive entertainment 2005, Sydney, Australia November 23 - 25, 2005 have been released online. The …
'Birds' - the new clip from Pleix
Paris-based collective, Pleix have just finished their new clip called Birds for Vitalic. The clip features extreme slow-motion footage of dogs jumping and …
Google Earth now for Mac
If you are a (the) regular reader of Playpen you’ll know of my fascination for Google Maps and Google Earth. Google Earth is a downloadable application …
Hours wasted improving productivity
If, like me, you are one of those people who is forever wasting inordinate amounts of (enjoyable) time searching for tools, tips and techniques with which to …
WP 2.0 broken permalinks and 404 error
Ironically, the recent post I wrote about upgrading painlessly to [Wordpress 2.0](http://wordpress.org] had a broken permalink. This resulted in my trackback to …
Coldplay leave Mac users out in the cold
Arif over at Itch.in just posted the details of the DRM from Coldplay’s new album. Basically it looks like it won’t play in the following: MP3 …
Subscribe to Playpen with e-mail
If you’re fed up with visiting my site (boo hoo!) but still enjoy the content (yay!) then you can now subscribe via e-mail. Click on this link here or …
Playpen upgraded to Wordpress 2.0
Playpen has now been upgraded to Wordpress 2.0 largely without pain. In fact, without any pain at all, although I was particularly careful to back-up everything …