Worked hard today developing character ideas for the finale of Intrapology. We might end up covering Jowling Kowling in gunge, but it depends on the outcome of audience votes in episodes 4 and 5. Meanwhile, we’re performing Episode 3 on 15th June, get tickets at intrapology.com/tickets
Just had a lovely meeting about continuing the Desperate Livin website archiving trans health resources. Also planning a couple of workshops for skill sharing to get more people creating DIY indie websites. The internet is still handmade, still beautiful, and still ours. desperatelivin.com
I did that Open Psychometrics test
“So what are you working on at the moment?” you ask. I take a deep breath…
I really hope that with ActivityPub we might get to a point where people can post the things they actually enjoy making, on the platform that suits them best, without having to go through the drudgery of then separately recreating it for every other platform so that people might actually see it
The majority of artists seem to, at least on some level, feel that posting on social media is a chore that they’d rather not do. This is the other side of the rise of AI slop - putting automated content in people’s feeds, because these services no longer have much to offer creative people.
My work got some coverage in The Sick Times! Really honoured to be included in their fantastic reporting on issues that are being actively suppressed on a lot of platforms at the moment.
I really appreciate the UK Games Fund explicitly defining their remit as “commercial games-for-entertainment”. This is often a category that’s taken as the default and unmarked, which creates confusion for those of us doing something else!
3 hours until the Intrinsink {~ game jam | scratch night | hackathon} event, testing five short new pieces by commissioned artists from games and theatre: intrapology.com/Scratch
It’s free, but you can throw us a fiver here: intrapology.com/news/scra…
The poll to name Intrapology’s software has Intrinsink in the lead. If you want to move the needle in favour of Perform-O-Tron or Tela-prompter, get your votes in. It’ll ask you to sign in with a Patreon account, but you don’t need to be a paying member. www.patreon.com/posts/121…
HELP Intrapology to choose a name for the open-source software that we make. 🎭🎮📝 Our software allows us and other artists to create interactive live performances inspired by narrative-led indie games, using Ink: www.patreon.com/posts/121…
Manchester 21st Jan 2024
Not pictured: I saw the David Hockney piece at Aviva Studios. It’s a video essay projected on four walls and the floor, and uses this format to argue for a way of seeing beyond single point perspective. A good example of immersive work that connects form with content!
Today Alexis Bushnell shared jaz-michael king’s mastodon-near.me, which arranges local Mastodon instances on a map. I feel some bittersweet validation, as no city or region in the North of England is represented - could addressing this gap help local communities to organise, post-enshittification?
