Fear City x | Weeknotes
It was the Surbiton summer fete this weekend, conveniently right outside our flat. We were really lucky with the weather.
September 19, 2021
This Week’s Podcast | 2135
Behind today's 5min of content is about Five hours of work, and about 4.5k words. 3.5k of which I threw away.
September 18, 2021
Talking Mechanics and Worlding With Paul Czege | World Running
I spoke with Games Designer Paul Czege abut the emerging concept of World Running. We discuss the end of play as narrative…
September 14, 2021
I Probably Need A Stamp Card | Weeknotes
I was joking with the endoscopist as she saw me before, back in 2019 that they should have a stamp card program…
September 12, 2021
Power Fandoms | 2134
With Web3 enabled Permissive IP frameworks, Power Fandoms will own, produce and share the value created by their worlds. They are coming…
September 11, 2021
WHAT PUNK ARE YOU?
I was on a panel at Futurecon 2021 on Saturday: 'WHAT PUNK ARE YOU? Past, Present and Future Trends in Anti-capitalists Science…
September 6, 2021
Noticing the Little Things | Weeknotes
It's not that we are living in end of empire times. It's that things are now in fact ending.
September 5, 2021
A Napster Moment For Collective Storytelling | 2133
Experienced Future shock this week with the launch of three NFT projects: LOOT, The Logged Universe, and Lifeforms. Permissive IPs are coming.…
September 4, 2021
Upcoming Events: September 2021
I'm speaking at two conferences in September: Futurecon & Ars Electronica. Both events are Solarpunk adjacent, looking forward to them!
August 31, 2021
The Prompt in Interactive Fiction and AI Art | 2132
Sketching out some ideas around the relation between the shared indistinguishable surface of interactive fiction games and using GAN's to create art.…
August 28, 2021
Mark’s IE6 Metaverse | Weeknotes
I can't belive Facebook showed off the wonders of VR by using a bland cartoon meeting room. Utterly ridiculous. The IE6 of…
August 22, 2021
10 Years With a Straight Razor | 2131
Since I have been old enough to do so, I've hidden my face behind a beard. Shaving with a straight razor requires…
August 21, 2021
Solarpunk: A Narrative Strategy, a Memetic Engine | The Stoa
I went to The Stoa last night to talk about Solarpunk, Cultural Fracking, Narrative Strategy & Memetic Engines.
August 18, 2021