tim wright: digital writer

Hauntology

Rather late in the day I have recorded my version of the sound files that accompany Jo Flintham's Hauntology piece.

You can help develop the story by adding to the Flickr photo sequence. And I'm looking forward to seeing the photo-table-casket installation piece later this week.

but he was dead by may.mp3
but if the suit fits.mp3
forever on display.mp3    
forever on your table.mp3
he should have said shoe.mp3
here with her secret love.mp3
hidden away.mp3
him in french clay.mp3
his splattered brains.mp3
i can hear her whisper.mp3
i caught them in the hay.mp3
i do the job.mp3
i felt like a thief.mp3
i liked to ride horses.mp3
i wasnt born to be this way.mp3
instead i took the job.mp3
is that you michael.mp3
little bits of Tony lay.mp3
lived to fight another day.mp3
me out on display.mp3    
michael go away.mp3
my wife would say.mp3    
not my name she says.mp3
oh aye still here oh aye.mp3
or years ago.mp3
she keeps the photo in a casket.mp3
she kneels and prays.mp3
she loved him more than me.mp3
smart in my suit.mp3
so she was mine for 50 years.mp3
sometimes whisper back.mp3
somewhere in france.mp3
stay on parade.mp3
to her dismay.mp3
tony deep in her dark heart.mp3

XPT Wordle

Handy compendium of cross media projects & current thinking

The Who, What, When, Where, Why and How of Cross-Media

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Hail slabovia

Have just got back from Glasgow where I've been working with Tern TV on their Channel 4 project slabovia.tv.

It's only at soft launch at this stage but there are some crazy plans afoot for it. If you like jokes about pigs, this is the place for you.

project v

"Project V showcases the lives and observations of six up and coming young performers from Britain and the US. The site features short-form video postings of each of the six performers – artists, actors and comedians - talking to each other and to the audience. Audiences can post comments on the performers’ homepages and follow the clues to the unfolding story linking the site’s stars."

Lunch with Harrison Ford

Damn! Can’t believe I missed out on this. And can’t quite believe that Harrison has been reduced to an eBay item (or is this a promotion for him rather than demotion? After all, have you seen his recent movies?!)

Interactive electricity

The government is set to give away free energy monitors so that we can all see how we’re using up electricity in our homes. Interesting to think that switching things on and off in the home can change the output of a device like this – could easily become a means of triggering other assets – words, pictures, sounds. A bit like Jeremy Hight’s RightAs Rain.

Buying haunted items

Did a little seminar for Mike Williams recently, the theme of which was ‘eBay’. My angle was that storytelling might ‘add value’ to objects that otherwise seemed fairly valueless. In ‘Oldton’, for example, there was the crappy tobacco jar - bought for $80 from an online antique store – that became (for me) a spooky/prized item conjured out of a fictional online town and made real. A piece of pottery ‘haunted’ by the spirit of my dad.

Sounds a bit hokey I know, but it turns out that eBay actually has a guide to buying haunted items with some great photos of how to fake up a ‘haunted’ toilet roll.

Maps and Skins media project

Last month, on the invitation of some very nice people at Isis Arts and National Heritage, I visited Belsay Hall. There is a fantastic festival taking place here in the late spring/early summer involving such luminaries as Mike Figgis, Tilda Swinton, Anthony (of The Johnstons), and my mate Tim Hopkins, the very talented opera director and new media artist.

Running alongside the festival is a very exciting new media education project that I have been helping to specify: 

"a group of young people will work with a professional artist to develop, devise and create a virtual game. As part of creative workshops, led by the artist (and assisted by an education heritage worker) the young people will visit the Belsay site, take part in heritage-themed workshops, and devise creative scenarios, which will form the basis of a computer game creating an interface, which can also be used on the internet and via a touch screen console at the site. A first stage game will then be produced by a professional media company with experience of producing games, which will be launched at Belsay in July 2007."

Isis has now published tender documents for both the artist position and the media development partner. The deadline for submitting proposals is 28th Feb 07. More details can be found at http://www.isisarts.org.uk/opportunities.html

Do sandals and ponytails really hold back Linux?

Have been thinking about hair again. See: http://www.ratemymullet.com/show.php and
http://beauty.ivillage.com/celebstyle/redcarpet/0,,8tdnwj52,00.html.

And here is the crucial question: Do sandals and ponytails really hold back Linux?