As of next year, I'll be working four days a week helping people get research funding.  So if you are looking for funding, give me a call.

The other day a week will be spent researching privacy.

This will put an end to the craziness of trying to get stuff finished for multiple projects with competing deadlines. It has been particularly bad over the ( Read more... )

My project for the National Gallery of Victoria, Pictures of the Floating World, got a guernsey in the 2010 Horizon Report (K-12 edition).

That makes me happy because I like the Horizon Reports. They are good.  The Horizon Project (which produces them) "...identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, ( Read more... )

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Or, to be more precise, I helped with the proto-type of a story-telling animation engine for Ukiyo-e mash-ups.

Please play around with it and let me know what you like, what you hate, what is wrong or confusing.

Or, if you prefer, here is one I prepared earlierIt is very raw at the moment. For example, I still haven't provided any documentation ( Read more... )

One of my workmates from the NGV, Leon Van de Graff, has a new exhibition that links robots with mobile phones. Called "OK, Commuter", it is running until 26 February 2009 in the Flinders Street subway space ( Read more... )

I ran some playtests at Arcanacon. I'm looking to do a few more now. If you are interested, ( keep reading... )

The Kabuki game is dominating my thoughts at the moment. I understand that it ( may not be foremost in yours. )

I stood in front of a group of year 6(?) kids today and survived.

We did our first real playtest with real target audience members and we survived. Yea, us! If you are interested in a game based on Ukiyo-e artworks, ( peek behind the curtain. )

I'm running playtests at Conquest.

This is just a tad scary, since the last time I ran a game at a Con (aside from LG, where I am really just helping Greg) was in 1999, I think. Not even a decade ago - that's not so bad.

PS: Also happy to run playtests outside the convention. Let me know if you are interested.

Kabuki Banruku (working title) is a game that allows players to explore the Edo Period of Japan through Kabuki or Bunraku theatre.

The game is intended to highlight the dramatic power of sacrifice in Japanese folk stories and history. The double suicide of the doomed lovers; the mother who kills her own child to protect the infant daimyo; the ( Read more... )