Never having the chance to see them live before - figured I better do it soon - these guys aren’t spring chickens anymore! That said - they put on a high energy show and played through a lot of material. I personally am digging their brand-new instrumental stuff they debuted at the show. But man to see Mike D on the kit - I just couldn’t not see Screech hammering away on the drums 
Cornelius rocked. Period. This is the only clip I can really put up as the other tracks they did were just too loud for my poor little camera. The visuals they crearte for their tracks are simply wonderful vignettes - and the live performances synched to them - certainly a sight to see.
Environmental artist HA Schult recently brought his TrashPeople exhibit to Barcelona in Plaça Reial. TrashPeople is an army of trash soldiers that have traveled the earth since 1996 visiting such locations as The Great Wall Of China, The Giza Pyramids, The Red Square in Moscow and many other significant locations including Matterhorn.The TrashPeople represent humanity as it is today, a collection of mass consumption that is slowly contaminating the earth.
Found a series of powerful awareness advertisements for Amnesty International.
This is what the power of communication is about. (to me) When you can successfully enter the personal space of a viewer and interact with their own consciousness at a deep and intimate level you can connect and communicate beyond what has been accepted as ‘traditional’ mass market advertising. Not sure who produced this piece, but well done.
The sights, sounds and tastes of a Tainanese Night Market. I had the pleasure of experiencing this while here in Tainan, Taiwan while speaking at the Sound and Motion Conference and thought I’d share a bit of this experience.
I was interviewed by Marcelo for Nice To Meet You! while in Barcelona for OFFF. We spoke briefly about an installation piece I worked on called Exposure.
Nice teaser video for Microsoft’s apparent Surface technology. A mix of some Jeff Han’s Multi-Touch Interaction Research and Apple’s new ‘patented’ multi-touch interfaces as previewed on the iPhone. Either way this is certainly the future. I’m sure Windex loves this too 
I’m here at Hong Kong International Airport waiting for a connecting flight to Taiwan. It’s been a crazy day flying from Barcelona to London, 9 hour layover, 12 hour flight and now another 3 hour layover before I arrive in Taiwan where a car will be waiting to take me the 1 1/2 hours to Tainan - the oldest city in Taiwan. I am spending the rest of the week here to speak to a number of Universities on Interactive Creativity and explore the old city and the beautiful coastline.
Well - I have decided to try and retro-fit this blog with happenings years old. Digging up old news and placing it in one place. I suppose trying to put together a ‘definitive’ sort of online space that can house thoughts, work, prototypes, concepts, travels, speaking engagements etc. Now here is the thing - how best to do this? If I add posts for years ago they become buried and what few people look here, and hopefully more who do, they won’t be able to find this content without searching for it in the Archives.
If anyone has any insight on this - be much appreciated. It’s a lot of work to dig through and want to try to do it in the best way that supports both myself and those weary travellers that drop by.
Spent a couple of days in - Sunny when i got there , Raining when i left - Glasgow to check up on some hardware installations and projector tests as part of an Interactive Installation we are working on. The Pacific Quay building is truly magnificent, something to behold. It is one of the most wired buildings and includes what may very likley be the world’s first fully integrated 100% HD Television studio. For what is basically a gigantic box, it has a lot of individuality once you get inside. The “river” which is the climbing central and open staircase gives itself to interesting meeting points and social interactions. The open atmosphere and attitude of the building is prevalent and something which I suspect we will see more of in the future. More news soon on some of the interaction developments.