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October 20, 2003
Banff Strikes Again
It's really good to see another project from last year's 'Interactive Screen' event at Banff get moving.
(I went not knowing I was supposed to be taking a project, and instead had to discover one while I was there. Instead I found two connected truths:
1. I got into all this media stuff because of music. And music is how I most naturally articulate my personal creativity. This got lost along the way, but Banff led to my going for formal piano lessons, leading to much improved mental health.
2. Producers in hostile commissioning environments for long enough will shrink their own personal taste to only encompass what they can get commissioned. It's their manager's job to ensure that they keep looking outside that world for new inspiration or they will go slightly mad.)
Anyway, Scott Paterson's PDPal started off as a bunch of paper prototypes, and has a really interesting information journey between devices. (Though in Europe I'm not sure that it wouldn't all be done through mobile now)
Check it out.
Posted by Tom Dolan at October 20, 2003 08:38 PM
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"2. Producers in hostile commissioning environments for long enough will shrink their own personal taste to only encompass what they can get commissioned. It's their manager's job to ensure that they keep looking outside that world for new inspiration or they will go slightly mad.)"
ROTFLMAO. In an ironic kind of a way.
Posted by: Kim at October 21, 2003 04:02 PM
meaning pdpal is all about getting the commission
?
i'm intrigued someone else noticed this project if thats what you meant. i saw an early description at rhizome and thought it looked interesting, but then it started to look like the concept was up for grabs so long as the project got commissioned.
it came here to walker last summer and it seemed like participants were being test marketed for the next version. now ny city's times square is being test marketed (c. wired news) for the next version?
the ambition is unusual, i'll say that much.
dave
Posted by: dave macauliffe at October 28, 2003 08:06 PM
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