Arrived in Cambridge and looking forward to meetings with the Anglia Ruskin University’s, Creative Economy department and of course doing the first set up for the Firmament exhibition at the St John’s Innovation Centre
Cambridge
October 18th, 2010Mod Lab’s October 6th Meeting Recap
October 8th, 2010Awesome turn out to Wednesday night’s meetup; Nigel Vezeau brought in and demoed a few of his projects, Andrew Plumb instructed a group on the Makerbot, Derek Ledoux and Justin Dempsey from the Ottawa indie gamer group the Dirty Rectangles came and made LED throwies and I brought in an electronic toy I made with Jimmie […]
Review: Queen Elizabeth in 3D, CBC, premiered September 20, repeated September 22 & September 25, now on my TiVo foverer for when we have company, and on the CBC Website
October 5th, 2010The attendant at the Post Office seemed royally defeated. She had seen Queen Elizabeth in 3D one week before I showed up asking if they still had free 3D glasses. I had TiVo’d the broadcast and watched it without the special eye-wear as I was promised at the beginning of the show there would be […]
Mod Lab’s September 22nd Meeting Recap
September 27th, 2010Last Wednesday featured the making of a super sensitive sound to light converter from CanaKit and talks of interesting hacks to the Roomba and Spykee. Guy told us an interesting tidbit on knowing if a battery still has a charge- just…stick your tongue on it. Since the body is conductive you’ll either get a little […]
Mod Lab’s September 8th Meeting Recap
September 11th, 2010The meetup of hackers and makers at the first Mod Lab of September had a few people working on testing Infrared LED’s and others talking about the upcoming Electric Fields festival and projects that will be featured there. Guy, an electrical engineer that makes robots in his spare time and member of the Ottawa Robotics […]
A tour of NYCResistor
September 3rd, 2010I was fortunate enough to arrange my schedule so as to spend July and August in NYC this summer, and although it is with mixed feelings that my time in NYC has passed, the fall in Ottawa is promising as Electric Fields is right around the corner and I look forward to catching up with […]
Critical Blogging resting and waiting for the new year.
September 1st, 2010This announcement is notice of the early end to the Critical Blogging Residency undertook in partnership between Artengine and Vague Terrain. Our resident blogger, Rhiannon Vogl, is leaving the residency in order to take on other professional challenges which we know she will excel at. We are excited to start the next edition of the residency in the new year so keep an eye out for the call for applications in February 2011.
Firuz Daud on Mosaika
August 25th, 2010I’ve often been accused of being a snob when it comes to certain things. Things like the internet. That is why I find it so hard to write for a blog. To me, blogs are the number one example of web 2.0 bullshit that shifted power from 1337 hax0rz to the hands of moms, girlfriends, […]
HTMlles Festival 2010 – Call for Proposals
August 16th, 2010The HTMlles Festival of Media Art + Digital Culture 2010 is currently seeking proposals for its 9th edition, to be held from November 13 to 20, 2010, in Montreal, under the theme of <home> </land>. The deadline for proposal submissions is Monday, September 13, 2010, at 9:00 PM. Initiated by Studio XX in 1997, and evolving […]