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.

Umerus - first glimpse

Posted by Pete Ashton on June 24th, 2009

Martin Smith has been in Holland witnesing the testing of Umerus before Theo Jansen brings it to Shrewsbury next week. He’s writing up his experiences on his blog but here are some of the first shots he sent from his phone:

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Check in here for more

June 24th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Photos, Theo Jansen | 3 comments

Martin meets Theo in Den Haag

Posted by Pete Ashton on June 23rd, 2009

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Shropshire-based artist Martin Smith is in Holland meeting Theo Jansen prior to him coming to Shrewsbury to build Umerus next Thursday. He’s blogging his progress and experimenting with livblogging from from the beach. I’ve embedded the live blog below - scroll down for the most recent entries. If you have a question for Theo stick it in the box at the bottom!

June 23rd, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Blogging, Events, Theo Jansen | Leave a comment