Posts Tagged ‘watershed’

Thought Den’s first Public Event!

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Below is the moment, captured in glorious 3D hi-definition technicolour, that Thought Den took the stage at Cineformation’s Film and New Media event, held at the Watershed. The session has been written about before, but for those of you who missed it, watch the vid.

Our section of the event aimed to encourage the users to participate in the debate by hosting an open brainstorm after a brief run down of the current relationship between Film and mobile platforms such as mobile phones. The results were a little bizarre, but we uncovered some pertinent issues all the same…

Happy Packages lives on!

Friday, May 9th, 2008

They\'re a clever bunch, aren\'t they?

It’s been hard-core few months, as you might tell from the other blog posts and mediasandbox…a lot of fun, inspiring, challenging, and more than anything this project has opened hundreds of doors for everyone involved. A realisation dawned this week that we really are operating at the forefront of the pervasive media industry…things break, people don’t understand, it’s new NEW stuff!

Who\'s that ugly chap then?

Our stand looked beautiful, as did Tom’s face beaming out from the 42″ plasma screen. People milled around, took the Happy Packages GPS demo for a test drive, asked us what on earth we were talking about and nodded knowingly when we explained the difficulties working with pervasive convergence in multi-platform content distribution systems.

At around 3 or 4 it was time to deliver the 6 minute presentation and face the judging panel, who were:
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Re: Cineformation - Film and New Media

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Wow, what a brilliant night we all had at the Cineformation event last night!

Ben and Dan

The talk had varied speakers from Dr Tom ‘have you read this book’ Abba and Rik ‘new internet tv ideas’ Lander who both rocked out with their own projects. The lovely host Vicky ‘wonky’ Brophy chaired a great night and judging from the comments (some in French!), people loved it.

Thought Den were invited to chair a discussion on the Distribution of Video to Mobile and explore the current scene, but no one had hair nearly as good as Ben’s last night… (more…)

Cineformation - Mobile Distribution talk @ Watershed Thurs 26th

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

What do you know about the distribution of Video content over Mobile Devices?

We’re chairing part of the interaction to uncover everyone’s thoughts this Thursday (27/03/08) at the Watershed 7PM. It promises to be an interesting night and we’ll be utilising some of our Bluetooth technologies so we’d love you to come. As always, there’ll be drinks in the bar afterwards!

For more details, see the Cineformation site.

Cineformation

Chancellor of the Exchequer opens Pervasive Studio

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Thought Den are still hanging from the Soco Social knees up in London last night (guests of honour, of course - here’s why) and from the dirty-early coach journey back this morning to meet our very special guest, Mr Alistair Darling! He came to open the Pervasive Media Studio and dutifully cut the digital ribbon with an HP iPaq!

Both Clare and Dick from the Watershed lay down some inspirational speeches, waxing lyrical about the fantastic creative and computing industries currently booming in the west country. Roll on world domination. View the rest of the pics here

Alistair Darling