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Liverpool Pride – Summer of Love

Today, it made us proud to march with Metal with a brightly coloured summer of love themed Stephenson’s Rocket for Liverpool Pride day. Lot’s of great photographers were about. Here is a sample of some of my favourites. Please click more »

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Playing “Tickets Please”

“Tickets Please” is packed up and delivered to METAL. I have had time to edit some video footage of the game in action from our final play tests. “Tickets Please” is an oral history memory game allowing fun interactive exploration more »

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Making “Tickets Please”

Today we completed making “Tickets Please” It is an Arduino and RFID powered oral history memory game allowing fun interactive exploration of the Edge Hill Archive. The “Signal Repeater” electronic hub was made by Mycroft Milverton, the game board was more »

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Edgy: The Railway Cabaret

On Saturday myself and Brox performed with the rest of the Sound Tracks group in Edgy: The Railway Cabaret. Part of the Working Class Life and Music Festival. Our show “Sound Bites” was inspired by the Oral History stored in more »

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Them pidgins are up to summat!

Them pidgins are up to summat… They’re organised… I know it… That blue one… I reckon he’s their leader… (Misquoted from Chicken Run) I have made eight polyfoam pigeons for a performance Brox and I are part of next Saturday more »

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The 1911 Transport Strike

Tonight I went to METAL to listen to a talk about the 1911 Transport Strike. I barely knew anything about the strike beforehand so this was a real eye opener. This is the story of a great people’s victory over more »

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