The Shift-Time Blogging Project » Belated update

Alongside the main Shift-Time Festival we're running a project to get Shrewsbury and the surrounding area blogging. We want people to use the festival to experiment with all sorts of "social media" services be they weblogs, photo and video sharing sites like Flickr and YouTube or Twitter. The end result, we hope, is to give Shrewsbury the tools to talk to itself about things that matter, whatever they may be.

This blog will act as a hub, collecting and linking to online activity that is either relevant to the festival or Shrewsbury in general, and posting things to to help and inspire you to blog about Shift-Time.

So get involved by setting up a blog or sharing your photos and videos online and let us know what you're up to so we can mention it on the blog.

Belated update

by Pete Ashton

From the blogs over the last week:

Monday

Martin is in a “reflective mood” after the debates on Sunday.

Sue Tortoise rounds up her experiences over the weekend with thoughts on Blue Eyed Soul’s TAKE, Umerus, Shift-Life and the speakers at Blast Off.

Sam Moore posts a couple of photos from the Shift-Life project she did the character designs for.

Steve Green recounts his weekend taking photographs around the park which you’ll find in this set.

Blue Eyed Soul thank the photographers who recorded TAKE on Saturday.

Lorna interviews Moya about Blue Eyed Soul for Virtual Shropshire:

Wednesday

Gekko reviews TAKE with photos.

Martin visits ELF at the Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery and finds “not a glimmer of life”.

Gekko announces she’s started a blog for the sheep that participated in Feng-Ru Lee’s performance: Marmont Jacobs, Montgomery, Wales.

Umerus moved to St Mary’s Church drawing much attention and Martin followed its journey with his video camera.

Pride Hill from Martin Smith on Vimeo.

And here it is in the Church:

Thursday

Sue interviews the creators of In Praise of Darwin’s Mistakes, the first part of The Weather Man trilogy.

Friday

Martin is still thinking about Kevin Warwick’s talk on Sunday about upgrading his body. He needs more RAM.

Jess from Blue Eyed Soul reflects on their performance of TAKE with some “backstage” photos.

Saturday

Gekko reviews Opera North’s The Weatherman and other events and pronounces it “an amazing day”.

Sunday

Sue writes with great detail about the science and philosophy underlying Theo Jansen’s work. Recommended reading.

Monday

Gekko reviews Heresy the installation by Andy McKeown and Sue Challis.

Finally…

Sue notices the sparcity of posts on this blog over the week and asks what’s going on with this project. I’ll try and answer that in the next post…

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