All entries for Friday 20 August 2004

August 20, 2004

Photo competition

Follow-up to Ideas for what to blog about: photography, art, creative writing from Transversality - Robert O'Toole

We might be able to do this with some clever aggregation. Rules could be:

Entrants must have a blog;
Entrants must create a category called Photo Competition;
Entrants must add three entries to the category, each entry representing a certain theme, with info about when and where taken.

That would make it easy for us to judge, whilst encouraging blog use. Alternatively, we could aggregate galleries.

Ideas about the themes? Perhaps linked to first term at Warwick?

Different competitions for different year groups?

Winners from each faculty?

Prize?


Robert O'Toole : 20 Aug 2004 21:48 |  Comments (2) |  Report a problem

Hyena family

Seen by the road from Shingwedzi going North, first the baby:

And the parents:

More pictures in this gallery.


Robert O'Toole : 20 Aug 2004 19:24 |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem

Ideas for what to blog about: photography, art, creative writing

Obviously the photo galleries are a great opportunity. How about a photo competition?

Also, blogs are a great way to get your own art work online, get feedback if you want, and reflect on it. A friend of mine has a blog of her art

And finally, one that i'm going to try soon, creative writing. Use the blog to write and communicate a serialised story. We should have a competition for this to. Maybe the Skills Cert and the Creative Writing Programme will be interested.


Robert O'Toole : 20 Aug 2004 13:53 |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem

And the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, who are also deeply cool

Follow-up to Academic FOAF – good or bad? from Transversality - Robert O'Toole

At my meeting with Jonathan Vickery we also briefly discussed my academic work, and it was agreed that I should have an involvement with the Centre. I noted in particular that the MA in Creative and Media Enterprises taught by Chris Bilton has a module on The Artistic Imagination, which overlaps both with my work in Aesthetics, and also with the development of blogs as a means of relating creative work to project development – blogs being a means for capturing and reflecting upon more chaotic creative activities and organising them productively. Will investigate further.

Robert O'Toole : 20 Aug 2004 12:36 |  Comments (1) |  Report a problem

Exciting meeting with Poconet

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This was really great. I know that there are lots of people, PhD and staff, in the Uni doing research related to what i'm doing (on e-learning, on aesthetics, on cultural policy) but we're not connected. Our web architecture offers great ways of building these connections, all it needs is for people to start building the networks. Pathik and Red are doing just that on postcolonial studies, something that i've just realised i have an interest in, and which my areas of research are deeply connected to.

And blogs will be so good, for lots of reasons. For example, whilst demoing the gallery system, i remembered that i'd been looking at development issues whilst in Botswana, and had taken photos of various different shopping malls to illustrate the loss of democracy in public life. And quite obviously it linked in.

I also had a great meeting on Wednesday with Jonathan Vickery, in which many of these connections were made. Shall report on this asap.


Robert O'Toole : 20 Aug 2004 11:56 |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem