Andy Polaine
American border police overzealous
I’ve just been reading Hossein Derakhshan’s (aka Hoder) account of being stopped at the border in Toronto about to go back to New York. It’s …
Writing & Thinking
A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.
Interactive Entertainment 2005
I’m just here at Interactive Entertainment 2005 presenting a paper, The Flow Principle in Interactivity as well as a demo of my Time Smear piece. …
REFRESH! Conference - Lowbrow, High Art: Why Big Fine Art Doesn't Understand Interactivity
An archive of the REFRESH! Conference at the Banff New Media Institute is now online. You can download my paper, Lowbrow, High Art: Why Big Fine Art …
More TV vs Internet debate with Ian Methods
A friend of mine, who works for one of the major Pay TV networks, mailed me a comment as I had inadvertently turned off comments when I moved to Wordpress. He …
ACUADS paper - The Future has already Happened: Dispelling some Myths of Online Education
Recently the Australian Council of University Art & Design Schools finally published the papers from the 2004 ACUADS conference in Canberra. My paper, …
New Omnium site - an online haven of collaboration
My friends and colleagues on the Omnium project have just launched their shiny new site. It is the outcome of over six years of work and research and they have …
Snaps for my students
Nice to see one of my students, Tim Rudder getting some interest on Tween for the music clip, Alicia, he’s just finished for his final year project with …
Adolf. Not a popular name after 1940s.
We were looking around at the popularity of names the other night and amusingly stumbled across this graph. What’s weird is the change of heart around …
Finally moved to WordPress
Okay, I’ve finally moved Playpen over to WordPress (hence the default-ish) theme (see footer for credits) for now. I have set up Alex King’s mt-wp …
Where Old Media Go To Die
Take a trip down Memorex Lane with Cassette Jam ‘05. I remember these Teac cassettes well. I thought they were the word in their day. Thanks to Toby for …
Food, Fabrica, Cameron
I just stumbled across the Fabrica blogs mainly due to the link to the old antirom photo that I blogged the other day. Then, of course, I found Andy …
New iPod and iTunes movie downloads - is the TV party over?
A few months back I wrote a post asking whether Apple were coming to the BitTorrent party and when iTunes Movie Store might open. It now has. This, it seemed to …
More scary historical photographs
I also found this photo in the Videobrasil archives. Rather scary in places and we all look so fresh-faced. Check out the nerdy bloke with glasses sitting at …
Antirom at Videobrasil
I just got mailed by Videobrasil to say they have put together a database of all of their festivals. It was a very pleasant trip down memory lane to see the …
Baglight - never lose your keys again
Some time ago, when I first started putting my writing online, I started a series called Great Inventions Yet To Happen. (I’ll put them up again at some …