http://www.sharedcreation.com/blog The Creation Engine Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:00:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Good news for Welsh Filmakers; the West Wales School of arts (in Carmarthen) and Oriel Myrddin Gallery will be staging a selected show of film in March 2009. This means that they need short films and this could mean you if you are a film maker either working in Wales ... http://www.sharedcreation.com/blog/2008/08/09/open-call-for-film-submissions.html Way back in the early days of Shared Creation I tracked the development of Adobe Lightroom, bought it as soon as it was out and became a great fan. Now Light Room 2 is out. I've not played with the product myself yet - that's not due to any ... http://www.sharedcreation.com/blog/2008/07/29/lightroom-2.html Its time to give a quick mention to this years New Media Expo. This years event is scheduled to start on August 14 and run until August 16.  The location is Las Vegas Convention Centre. So a little hard to reach if you are outside of the States, worth a ... http://www.sharedcreation.com/blog/2008/07/20/new-media-expo-2008.html I've recently seen a mention of Hijacker films in the bloc newsletter. There's no website and only a little information. However my gut feeling is that this could be very useful - as they provide film projects to youth and community groups. So if you have a film project that ... http://www.sharedcreation.com/blog/2008/07/13/hijacker-films.html 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 ... http://www.sharedcreation.com/blog/2008/06/28/creative-cultivators.html 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 ... http://www.sharedcreation.com/blog/2008/06/21/who-needs-powerpoint-meet-280-slides.html 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. ... http://www.sharedcreation.com/blog/2008/06/14/photrade.html 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 ... http://www.sharedcreation.com/blog/2008/06/12/celtx-version-1.html 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 ... http://www.sharedcreation.com/blog/2008/06/10/open-ear.html Summer is here and Ffotogallery has plenty going on. Take a look at these offerings On Sunday 29th June there is the Museum of The Moment Workshop. This is a day of workshops to help you explore the city through mobile phone video, photography, fiction, oral history or recording. ... http://www.sharedcreation.com/blog/2008/06/07/3-more-ffrom-ffotogallery.html