Archive for June, 2008

Creative Cultivators

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

A quick moment of your time to mention the Creative Cultivators. They are an eclectic mix of artists, craftsman and food producers who are getting together in Chepstow High Street on Saturday the 19th of July as part of the Chepstow arts festival.
Unfortunately I don’t have a working URL for the Festival to give […]

Who Needs Powerpoint? Meet 280 Slides

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

This week I encountered some presentation software and I’m going to talk about it. Don’t groan - as this really does fit in with Shared Creation - you’ll see.
I’m going to introduce you to 280Slides.com. This is presentation software that looks and feels like Apple Keynote. If you work on Windows then you may not […]

Photrade

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

A long running theme in Shared Creation is the introduction of useful new services and Photrade is the latest to join this list.
Put very simply Photrade is a combination of a photograph sharing website (think the venerable favourite Flickr) and a stock photography site (think istockphoto).
The idea seems simple. “Lets do photo sharing - […]

Celtx Version 1

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

A quick mention of something that almost got away
Celtx media pre-production system recently hit version 1 and is available for download. I started playing with Celtx some time ago and still think it is a good solution to the problem of filing and sharing all of the production details for things such as films, plays, […]

Open Ear

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Mark June the 13th as a good date if you’re any where near Cardiff and into the arts. On that day from 8pm till late there will be a free night of experimental work to experience in the University of Glamorgans newly build ATRium Theatre.
I’ve been looking over the list of performances and special […]