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Art of Freeranging – Workshop slides

Rockjimford — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:04:06 +0000

Here’s the slides from the 12 July 2011 workshop. Thanks to all for making it a sell-out event and for such great feedback. More to come on the sources of inspiration..

Art of Freeranging Workshop Details

Rockjimford — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:30:29 +0000

Here’s the aim/intended outcomes for my first workshop on the Art of Freeranging at the University of Portsmouth on July 12th. Some tickets still available via CIBAS.

Aim

The aim of this workshop is to help you design, develop and succeed in your creative practice.

Outcomes

By the end of the workshop you will:

Have re-evaluated your creative practice to focus on your wider life goals
Know how to identify and work with common challenges shared by many creatively driven people
Understand how the freeranging model is about cultivating your passions, time and energies to work, play and learn
Have learned about your own values and value in competitive and collaborative markets and networks
Have considered ways of supporting yourself and others in their day-to-day creative practice
Established a sustainable short, medium and longer term development plan

Freeranging at the Future Skills Festival

Rockjimford — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:50:14 +0000

I’m delighted to have been invited to facilitate a session on the Art of Freeranging as part of the Future Skills Festival organised by CIBAS in Portsmouth on July 12th. It’s part of a season running June-July, organised by CIBAS for artists and creatives in the south. Events are being hosted at the University of Portsmouth. Tickets are £20 and can be booked online.

I’ll be adding more details here about the session and my approach in the coming weeks in the run up to the event. In meantime here’s some links to other events that are part of the programme starting on 12th June:

Event 1: Future Skills ‘Question Time’

Event 2: The Art of Blogging and Social Media

Event 3: Time Management for Creative People

Event 4: IP and the Internet

Event 5: Build Your Digital Toolkit

Event 6: The Art of Freeranging
Event 7: Upgrade Yourself: Smarter Working for a Digital Age

Future Skills Festival on Tumblr

2010 in review

Rockjimford — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 10:34:34 +0000

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter reads This blog is doing awesome!.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,700 times in 2010. That’s about 6 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 19 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 102 posts. There were 9 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 2mb. That’s about a picture per month.

The busiest day of the year was February 15th with 52 views. The most popular post that day was Chat Roulette experience.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were coachwerksnews.blogspot.com, jamesbyford.mp, uk.linkedin.com, twitter.com, and lmodules.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for meeting, gino severini, chat roulette, jim byford, and james byford.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

Chat Roulette experience February 2010

Short review of Futurism at Tate Modern September 2009
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Ooooh.. bamboo iPhone 3/3GS case June 2010
2 comments and 1 Like on WordPress.com,

About James Byford, Freeranger January 2007

Towards a social investment bank? January 2007
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Games Night #3

Rockjimford — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:41:25 +0000

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Games Night at Coachwerks

Rockjimford — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:31:08 +0000

Games night at Coachwerks. New for this coming Tuesday 20th of July. Bring games you love to play or perhaps don’t get a chance to play. From coins and cards to board games and big games. Tables, cushions, blankets, bar, whiteboards, pens, snacks, tombola, games exchange…
All ages welcome. £3 on the door.

Creative Partnerships – CreativeJam web workshop

Rockjimford — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:06:57 +0000

I recently led a couple of workshops in Southampton, sharing the experience of creating the online presence for St Mark’s School.

Here’s the presentation materials..

Ooooh.. bamboo iPhone 3/3GS case

Rockjimford — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:32:37 +0000

For the last few weeks I’ve been using a beautiful bamboo case for my now, old, iPhone 3GS. I love it. Part inspired by the bamboo bike project, when the offer came from the memorycardzoo.com chaps to road test one of their products, I couldn’t resist the beautifully engineered Pro-tec iPhone case.

First impressions were of the fine fit and the pleasing amount of screen space the case affords. I found that the bamboo case wins for access to the camera (no bagginess and slipping over the lense as with rubbery/plastic cases) and also the solid bevels which provide easy access to the volume and power buttons.

Audio is well served generally, with the speaker vents big enough to let the sound out and not gather too much dust and clag. Sliding the bottom portion off to charge is easy and again means for a simpler fit onto most docking stations. Carrying the iPhone around in my bag or pocket benefits from the smoothness of the surface again reducing the amount of crumbs and gunk that previously built up inside a looser fitting case.

One small flaw – a chip out of the top after a couple of weeks of using headphones in and out. That however doesn’t affect performance in anyway and I still love it.

Functionally it wins, likewise on form factors too. It’s a beautiful piece of wood and has been widely admired by all those that have seen it in the last few weeks. I shall be looking out for a similarly well-designed iPad case! To get the iPhone 3G/3GS case – visit memorycardzoo.com.

Chat Roulette experience

Rockjimford — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:14:02 +0000

Having read a piece in today’s Observer about Chat Roulette I fired it up earlier and had a scary experience. If you haven’t tried it – it’s a fascinating concept. Using a webcam you are matched to a random person. You can see them and they you. Just the two of you. I haven’t explored it any further. The first person I saw was holding a gun to his head and then after a few seconds he disappeared. I did try a few others and found that they disappeared pretty quickly and so I gave up. The thing was it was fascinating. Three individuals, a couple all saw me and switched off. I did likewise to someone else. Then a Japanese guy hung around for what seemed like a lot longer – maybe waiting for me to speak. I decided without any conscious thought to shut down.

It left me feeling profoundly disturbed momentarily. Or so I thought. That was an hour or so ago. I might venture back – hopefully not to see anyone holding a gun to their head.

Hanging out at Coachwerks

Rockjimford — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:51:23 +0000

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