Hands On Middlesbrough
These pictures are from the Aspirational Digital Stories workshop held in July 2014. All the participants designed their ideal city and then presented their ideas to the group e group.
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He’s Got A Dream
In 1999 Tom Kelly and I wrote and produced a musical “Steel Town”. It tells of a young man’s dream of escaping the Steel Works into the world of music (wonder who that could be?) Tom produced the lyric to the song I’m posting which brilliantly captures how that young man’s parents may have felt … Read more
Windows Movie Maker
After Windows 7, Movie Maker changed drastically. There is no time line. In my opinion the timeline is fundamental to video editing (also to music and audio). The lack of a timeline in my view renders Movie Maker in Windows 7 and beyond useless. WMM 2.6 Luckily there is a work around. Download Windows Movie … Read more
Remembering Alvin
I was sad to hear this week that Alvin Stardust had died. I spent quite a bit of time with Alvin in the late 80’s producing an albums worth of my songs with him. The tracks never saw the light of day so I’ll attach a compilation of them to this post. I know Alvin … Read more
IFTTT
I’ve only scratched the surface with IFTTT https://ifttt.com/ but it looks set to become ever more highly regarded with $30M in funding. IFTTT is pronounced like Gift without the “G”. It means “If This (happens) Then (make) This (happen). It’s kind of a visual programming tool kit for the Internet and social media. It’s pretty … Read more
A Test
Trying the Hootsuite app to post to my site.