Pitch Up Publish 10: Augmented Reading took place last Thursday and thanks to our excellent participants I had a fantastic afternoon. Alan Chamberlain from Mixed Reality Lab, David Crowley and Jeremy Millar from the RCA, James Bridle and Josh, Rob and Fabia from getmorelocal were knowledgable, inspiring, provocative and entertaining and I ended the afternoon [...]
Entries Tagged as 'pitch up & publish'
Report Back on PU&P 10: Augmented Reading
July 8th, 2010 1 Comment
Tags: eBooks · experiments · pitch up & publish · StoryCubes
Private PU&P for Brunel Creative Writing Students
July 6th, 2010 1 Comment
Tony and the students from Brunel getting to grips with bookleteer It was a busy week in the studio last week. Thursday was PU&P 10: Augmented Reading which I’ll write about soon and on Wednesday we hosted a private PU&P for Tony White and his creative writing students from Brunel University. Tony has been working [...]
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Don’t Forget – PU&P 10: Augmented Reading Tomorrow!
June 30th, 2010 1 Comment
Just a little reminder that we’re running Pitch Up & Publish 10: Augmented Reading tomorrow afternoon between 2 and 5pm. We already have some great people signed up and there is still room for a few more so do drop us a line if you’d like to come along. You can reach us at bookleteer [...]
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PU&P 10 Augmented Reading: Thursday 1 July
June 21st, 2010 3 Comments
Date: Thursday 1 July 2010 Time: 2pm – 5pm Location: Proboscis Studio, 4th Floor, 101 Turnmill Street, London EC1M 5QP Map : http://bit.ly/PEBbb Cost: Free! Our next Pitch Up & Publish – No. 10 – will focus on the challenges and opportunities of using bookleteer.com for making and sharing books that go beyond text to call [...]
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MeBooks and Pocketfolios
June 8th, 2010 No Comments
Over the past few weeks we’ve been imagining more uses of Diffusion eBooks and StoryCubes, partly inspired by the family and personal eBooks created by our two Future Jobs Fund placements, Karine and Shalene, and partly with the help of Niharika Hariharan, a designer from Delhi (and former intern at Proboscis) who’s been in London [...]
Tags: bookleteering · inspiration · learning · mebooks · pitch up & publish · pocketfolios · ppod · print on demand · publish on demand
Margate Harbour Arm PU&P
April 28th, 2010 No Comments
This Friday (April 30th) I’ll be at Margate Harbour Arm alongside Dan Thompson from Artists & Makers and the Empty Shops Network as a guest of Lynn at We Make Margate to give a demonstration of bookleteer to local people. Come along between 1-5pm if you’d in the area and would like to know more [...]
Tags: demo · emptyshops · pitch up & publish · workshop
PU&P 9 Coventry with Artists and Makers
March 25th, 2010 No Comments
We will be running a Pitch Up & Publish event with Artists & Makers in Coventry on Friday 26th March 2010, from 12noon until 4pm as part of the Empty Shops Tour. Come and join us to publish your stories, pictures and ideas as Diffusion eBooks and StoryCubes. Date : Friday 26th March 2010 Time [...]
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PU&P 8 – Carlisle with Artists and Makers
March 17th, 2010 No Comments
We will be running a Pitch Up & Publish event with Artists & Makers in Carlisle on Friday 19th March 2010, from 12noon until 4pm as part of the Empty Shops Tour. Come and join us to publish your stories, pictures and ideas as Diffusion eBooks and StoryCubes. Date : Friday 19th March 2010 Time : [...]
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some eBooks from Shoreham
March 15th, 2010 No Comments
Some eBooks by Dan Thompson, Debbie Zoutewelle and Russ Bravo made at PU&P 7 in Shoreham-by-Sea on Friday.
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PU&P 7 – Shoreham-by-Sea with Artists & Makers
March 7th, 2010 No Comments
We will be running a Pitch Up & Publish event with Artists & Makers in Shoreham-by-Sea on Friday 12th March 2010, from 12noon until 4pm as part of the Empty Shops Tour. Come and join us to publish your stories, pictures and ideas as Diffusion eBooks and StoryCubes. Date : Friday 12th March 2010 Time [...]
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PU&P 6 – at Brixton Village
February 5th, 2010 1 Comment
Hot on the heels of PU&P5, we will be heading down to Brixton’s Granville Arcade and the Spacemaker’s Brixton Village project to run another special PU&P with the BrixVill tenants. The aim is to introduce bookleteer to the tenants to begin to record and document some of their experiences, stories, photos and artwork using Diffusion [...]
Tags: bookleteering · brixvill · creative writing · emptyshops · pitch up & publish · workshop · zines
PU&P 5 – schools and learning
January 29th, 2010 1 Comment
Our next Pitch Up & Publish – No. 5 – will focus on using http://bookleteer.com in learning and schools contexts. The evening is aimed at teachers/educationalists and others who work in schools and formal/informal learning contexts – exploring ideas for and uses of Diffusion eBooks and StoryCubes as learning and teaching resources. The evening will be co-hosted [...]
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PU&P with We Are Words + Pictures
January 20th, 2010 3 Comments
Yesterday we held the first Pitch Up & Publish of the year with seven of the members of We Are Word + Pictures, a “team running comic and ‘zine themed events throughout the UK” – Matt Sheret, Michael Leader, Mark Higgins, Anne Hollowday, Emilie Chalcraft, Tom Humberstone and Julia Scheele… It was really inspiring for [...]
Tags: bookleteering · cartoons · comics · creative writing · drawing · pitch up & publish · zines
Recent eBooks made with bookleteer
December 14th, 2009 No Comments
We now have over 70 registered users of bookleteer and the number of eBooks and StoryCubes being created and published is growing by the week. We’ve recently published new Transformations series commissions by Linda Carroli, Julie Myers and Will Davies with forthcoming works in the pipeline by Rita J. King, Ghislaine Boddington and Andrew Kötting. There [...]
Tags: bookleteering · eBooks · eNotebooks · pitch up & publish · StoryCubes
Pitch Up & Publish 3
November 9th, 2009 No Comments
The next PU&P will be on Thursday 26th November: Time: 6.30pm Venue: Proboscis Studio, 4th Floor, 101 Turnmill Street, London EC1M 5QP (map) Join us for an evening of exploring bookleteer and creating/publishing your own Diffusion eBooks and StoryCubes. Please email us to reserve a place: diffusion (at) proboscis.org.uk or sign up via our Facebook [...]
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bookleteer user guides
November 4th, 2009 No Comments
Giles asked me to help put together some user guides for bookleteer so I took the opportunity of the first Pitch Up and Publish event to see how people went about using bookleteer and to ask them the kinds of problems they encountered. Having worked with the original Diffusion Generator it was really satisfying to [...]
Tags: bookleteer · help · pitch up & publish · user guide
Pitch Up & Publish 2
October 28th, 2009 No Comments
The next PU&P will be on Thursday 5th November: Time: 6.30pm Venue: Proboscis Studio, 4th Floor, 101 Turnmill Street, London EC1M 5QP (map) Join us for an evening of exploring bookleteer and creating/publishing your own Diffusion eBooks and StoryCubes. Please email us to reserve a place: diffusion (at) proboscis.org.uk or sign up via our Facebook Event [...]
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Pitch Up & Publish 1
October 21st, 2009 1 Comment
The first event was a fun evening and everyone who attended created at least 1 eBook each, with the exception of Matthew who managed to create two lovely examples. Thanks to everyone who came (Christopher, Fred, Kati, Matthew & Sara), and the team (Karen, John & Stefan). The next Pitch Up & Publish will be [...]
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Pitch Up & Publish
October 8th, 2009 No Comments
Starting in October we will be running regular informal evening workshops for people to literally pitch up and publish using bookleteer.com. Initially these will be held at our Clerkenwell Studio for up to 15 participants – all you need is a laptop and some content (text /photos/ drawings etc) you’d like to create and share as eBooks [...]
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