Folksy Blog » Interesting 2007 http://blog.folksy.com News and stuff related to Folksy Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:00:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Interesting http://blog.folksy.com/2007/06/16/interesting http://blog.folksy.com/2007/06/16/interesting#comments Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:46:00 +0000 admin http://folksyblog.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/interesting We were at Interesting2007 today, the day were were hoping to launch a beta beta or rough, rough or half-baked or whatever version of the service. However, we had a few teething problems and the beta beta [or... ] will have to wait a week or so. Still, ‘Interesting’ was excellent. Freakish weather meant Rob and Debs didn’t get to London until 11am – when the conference started – so I [James] leant on Gabriel [Gabriel, thank you!] who was fabulous in helping me create the “craft concept retail space” in the gloomy oak lobby of the Conway Hall.

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We set up our stall trying to create a living room environment which kinda worked, but what did work was our “make table” where we beavered away making blinkybugs [see below] and Rob being far more technical hacked a Nintendo controller to make an optical mouse and also made an “ambient orb light” which responded to ‘the internet’. What about the internet it was responding has not yet become clear.

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Anyway, we had a great time, got lots of good feedback, not to mention loads of beta testers and a possible invite to do a big festival event this summer and I got to have a brief chat with Matthew D’Ancona [albeit unwittingly] which was marvelous. Thanks Russell :) and thanks to all those crafters who helped us to provide goods for the event [Lucia, Alice, Zoe, etc...].

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]]> http://blog.folksy.com/2007/06/16/interesting/feed 0 Call to arms … and hands and fingers… http://blog.folksy.com/2007/05/26/call-to-arms-and-hands-and-fingers http://blog.folksy.com/2007/05/26/call-to-arms-and-hands-and-fingers#comments Sat, 26 May 2007 12:33:00 +0000 admin http://folksyblog.wordpress.com/2007/05/27/call-to-arms-and-hands-and-fingers As Russell mentioned we’re going to be running a craft stall @ interesting2007. June 16th. It’s good to have a line drawn in the sand: it makes you focus. And we need to focus not only on the techy stuff but also on the audience. One of the things [amongst many] we’ve been slightly neglectful of in recent months is nurturing what you may call the “early adopter” craft folks. We know quite a few and consulted some on the process of designing the service but, well, we need to know more. So if you know anyone who makes stuff, interesting stuff that they care about, then please mention Folksy and get them to ping us because we’d love to hear from them, especially those in the UK. We have around 5 crafters represented on the stall but we want a lot more to make it eclectic.

We’ve recently been talking to people at Persistence Works in Sheffield [you see what they did there... nice] who were great, the Craft Centre in Manc and are doing a tour of studios and degree shows in the next month or so to see who’s who and what’s what. Any suggestions?

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