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  • Wandering Through Designed Storytelling Environments (aka Exhibitions)

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    Issue 1 of my newsletter – subscribe here I have friends who can’t imagine a worse punishment than visiting Disneyworld or sailing on a cruise. These lifeless environments are smeared with the fingerprints of designers desperate to part you with your money, whereas – I imagine them saying – nature demands no payment. And I get…

  • Total Fail at the Kinect Galleries

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    Update 3rd Sept: Shortly after I made this post, I got a nice email from someone running the Kinect Galleries campaign telling me they took the problems very seriously and were working to make sure they didn’t happen again – from the comments on this post, it sounds like that’s happened! I also went to…

  • Flatmate wanted in Clapham Common

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    My flatmate is moving out in a couple of months to go to new pastures, so it’s time for me to find another flatmate. I’m going to put an ad in various places shortly, but I figure it wouldn’t hurt to post something here as well – clearly anyone reading this blog will have good…

  • The Longest Race of my Life

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    24 hour events have always attracted a certain fascination. By definition, they’re demonstrations of endurance, and when the world is transformed at night, what might be a common activity like walking through London turns into something that is slightly thrilling and illicit – and therefore, very attractive to a particular type of person. In a…

  • Fire Alert at Heathrow

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    I was sitting in the lounge area of Terminal 3 in Heathrow when the PA system came on. “This is a security announcement. All passengers are reminded that baggage should-” A sharp beeping interrupted the message. “A fire alarm has been activated in your area. Please go to the nearest emergency exit immediately. A fire…

  • Post Office

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    Try as some might to avoid the rest of humanity, there are two places where you’re obliged to spend time with them – post offices, and planes. Nice segue into a weblog post about both, eh? (well, the one about planes might have to come a bit later) I had to pick up a special…

  • Where’s Adrian? (The Sequel)

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    Next week, I’m speaking at a couple of conferences on Perplex City in London. Can you guess I didn’t get much notice? Anyway, if you happen to be going to either, please say hi! Tuesday November 28th: BBC Audio Drama Festival. I’m speaking on the Gaming panel, which is at 9:30am and also repeated at…

  • Happy Elephant

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    Guardian weblog hating the Elephant – the Scrooge-like nature of the Guardian comes out in full force with this cynical bashing of the Sultan’s Elephant. Luckily all the commenters proceed to set the balance right.

  • London happenings

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    Two interesting developments have occurred in London in the past few days. The first is the Sultan’s Elephant. I haven’t been able to see the three-storey mechanical moving Elephant myself, since I’m in Oxford, but I intend to come back early on Sunday to see it off. The Sultan’s Elephant is performance art of the…

  • How to get from Oxford to London

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    Two Oxford-London coaches enter. Only one will leave. Which coach will be the victor?!!!