So last week I was contracted as Workshop Coordinator for Cyfle in Cardiff and their multiplatform training course – ‘Digital Delta’. Focus of my role – “Find great speakers”…

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A short but true story for Fathers Day.

I was going through some old photos the other week when I came across a snap of my very first design job: At the age of 14 I was commissioned by my dad to signwrite his van.

Mum and Dad have an upholstery business and at the time Dad was driving between Leeds and Bradford every day, up to Sunderland on a regular basis and made local house calls most evenings. A lot of people saw him driving around.

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So.

I’ve been trying to work out how much to ‘give away’ to tease folk into my story and wondering how many fans I’ll kill off with a paywall: I actually agree with paywalls in principle. If a creative/s have gone to a lot of time and effort to make something independently they gotta get paid. You can argue that people that don’t pay aren’t your real fans / Audience anyway, but perhaps there’s a way to glean some green without forcing folk to pay quite so much – or to pay in a more designed way so that they actually want to contribute… [..]

Recently I had the good fortune to be at Ravensbourne for a 2 day workshop organised by www.mediaxchange.com with Martin and Christopher from The Company P. ‘P’ are best known for such Participatory projects as

The_Truth_About_Marika
Doll Play
The Conspiracy for Good

Although I feel I have a lot of skill bases covered via my eclectic background, the live event ‘stuff’ is not something I have had opportune or, to be honest, motivation to investigate. About 18 months ago though I changed from being a happy opt in loner to a lets-meet-people person. In a tech world of individual isolation, connecting myself to real people and facilitating connections for others forms a large part of my professional life and story design agenda. Hence my attendance. [..]