Chris Unitt

* Society6 – Society6 is a platform for the world’s artists and creatives to promote their work and connect with unique opportunities * IKEA Heights – “Ikea Heights is a melodrama shot entirely in the Burbank California Ikea Store without the store knowing”. That’s… incredible * aM laboratory – “Simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by

* Derek Powazek – How to Publish a Magazine in a Day and a Half – “But, really, I can’t believe how easy it was. Making print media used to be so difficult. I remember cutting and gluing long columns of text together, shooting flats, and generally sweating for days to create

* Shop Culture from Leading Global Museums – CultureLabel – “CultureLabel.com is the first online platform to curate and showcase the best artist-designed and limited-edition products from over 60 leading galleries, museums, artists and culture institutions” * Babelgum – “Babelgum is global web video curated by our team of publishers. Individually they

* just in teractive: GameLayers from PMOG to Dictator Wars – Lessons learned from PMOG’s rise and fall * Social by Social – “A practical guide to using new technologies to deliver social impact”. Buy the book for a tenner and/or download the PDF for free * BBC – The Knowledge Exchange Blog: ugc@

* The Real Deal : alex hillman writes here – In Philadelphia there’s a tension between the actions of the (necessarily bootstrapped) grassroots community and what Alex calls “an under-used and over-produced attempt at being a regional resource for a good cause”. A story which I imagine is repeated the

Yesterday, I went to an event at the ICE in Coventry – an introduction to an innovation labs thing called F2 Future Forum. In the afternoon we were asked to think of challenges that we’d like to innovate around. We were then told that we would vote on the ones

Last night I went along to the launch of the new Academy. Editors played and were good. Thanks to ace photographer Steve Gerrard for the invite. His photos will be up on Birmingham Live soon-ish and will probably be better than the one above. (Update – The Editors on Birmingham

* Blogging for Artists – An informal talk given to Shropshire Arts Network on September 8th 2009 by Pete Ashton * Culture Wars | About Culture Wars – Culture Wars is the online review of the Institute of Ideas in London. We cover books, films, theatre, art and talk events, with a view to understanding

Last weekend was given over to Moseley Folk. A couple of days in the company of Birmingham’s boho middle-class, where children running riot is, weirdly, actually quite a good thing. As with last year, I only caught the headliner on Friday night – that being Saint Etienne. No, not

* Smokescreen § Homepage – “How do we get teens to think about online privacy, trust, and identity? TV, films and books haven’t worked – but a game that simulates the internet, with a gripping drama and fast-paced missions definitely could”. “Smokescreen is a cutting-edge game about life online, on a