Bloc is the Creative Technology Agency for Wales. Bloc’s objectives are to promote creative work using computer technology. Its constituents range from visual artists, graphic designers, academics, curators, arts organisations, to micro businesses and small medium enterprises.
Shared Creation became involved with Bloc after making contact with the Southern Bloc Project Officer. Southern Bloc is a six month pilot project based in Blaenau Gwent in the South Wales Valleys. The project aims to identify and bring together individuals and clusters from the creative industries working with new technology and assist in the creation of a network for participants.
For more details visit the bloc website: http://www.bloc.org.uk
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The Living Dead Project is seeking it’s first cast!
Initially we are looking for people to play.
- Ramblers
- Zombie (actor prepared to do stunt work)
- woman (who will look half eaten in the finished film)
If you are interest you need to submit a short profile of yourself including a photograph to the CV / Resume / Profile category. Please Tag your entry to include the words Zombies and Cast.
Photographs may be linked to or attached to your entry.
Your application should be short, include a short description of yourself and any relevant experience (e.g. drama groups, larp, modelling etc.) Please indicate your preferred role.
Casting will remain open until we confirm cast members and shooting schedules.
An addition to the Living Dead Project. It is now possible to confirm that the film will be made in a series of instalments and launched online.
Planning is progressing for the first episode with important announcements due very soon.
Fleeting Moments is an occaisonally upated old fashioned ship orientated Space Opera. In some distant time two Captains - one a rising star, the other a recently retired admiral both relegated by accident to a long lost out of the way colony find themselves fighting off an invasion force.
The story is very roughly inspired by Alistair Maclean’s ‘HMS Ulysses’
It’s published as a serial in a blog. Occasional support material is also published.
As part of it’s opening Shared Creation is looking for examples of creative writing that exist on the Internet. Our aim is to create a series of tagged posts that will enable people to find and exchange information on all that is best in the written word online.
To participate just register and post a description and a link to your site; using the ‘Writing’ category. Remember to use descriptive Tags to help people find your work
We are especially interested in the use of blogs to create written serials.
Our sister site - Shared Creation - Journal and Magazine has just published an article on how to write for it. Click here if you are interested.
The Creator of Shared Creation
I’m an experienced applications consultant, specialising in application design and support. I’ve never been far from creative projects and endeavours.
These include
- RobArt - Photography and Digital art. The RobArt site is a continuation of an earlier ‘photogallery’ project. As a photographer and digital artist I’m trying to always break new grounds (at least personally), in subject, lighting and composition. To date my work has been exhibited at the Focal arts festival, in the Hype project and a few local galleries.
- The Living Dead - a project based in Shared Creation to build a high quality, low budget and very British horror film.
- I’ve always been a keen writer. My published credits include reviewing and article writing in the magazines Anime UK, Anime FX and J-Fan. I’ve also had short fiction published most notably in the magazine Adventurer, and RPG scenarios published in the magazine White Dwarf. Perhaps most famously I produced one of the earliest UK based Anime fanzines in the form of ‘The Legend of the O.V.A. Fiend’ which was co-created with (and named by), long time conspirator Adrian Sexton.
- I’m also a long time supporter of the Horror group ‘Fear of the Dark’
Looking at that lot it has to be said that I like to work in words and images, but I’m also never afraid to get in front of a crowd or a camera to do some presenting or acting.
Currently I’m actioned at working on production organisation and continuity work on the Living Dead. Update - The Living Dead is now known as Consumed.
