Yet another Mozilla Festival has come to an end. This year I presented for the first time, delivering a session on network evaluation methodology. The lead analyst for Mozilla’s Leadership Network, Arliss Collins, co-presented with me on Mozilla’s approach to network evaluation. Before the session we both agreed that as it was a methodology session … Continue reading
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Mozilla Festival 2015
I went to Mozilla Festival again this year, Mozilla’s annual convention dedicated to building a better web. What I noticed most this year was the greater emphasis on discussion in sessions. The first two years that I went were much more focused on building and doing. I had mixed feelings about this: I always view … Continue reading
The Love and Devotion of Ridley Smith: Review for Everything Theatre
I reviewed The Love and Devotion of Ridley Smith for Everything Theatre: A new play supported with funding from IdeasTap and Arts Council England, The Love and Devotion of Ridley Smith tells the story of a young stockbroker confronting the moral quandaries of his profession. Tom Machell plays the winsome, naive Ridley as an overgrown schoolboy who realises … Continue reading
The Love and Devotion of Ridley Smith: Review for Everything Theatre
I reviewed The Love and Devotion of Ridley Smith for Everything Theatre: A new play supported with funding from IdeasTap and Arts Council England, The Love and Devotion of Ridley Smith tells the story of a young stockbroker confronting the moral quandaries of his profession. Tom Machell plays the winsome, naive Ridley as an overgrown schoolboy who realises … Continue reading
Dennis Hopper’s The Lost Album at the Royal Academy of Arts
At the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition of Dennis Hopper’s photographic collection The Lost Album I heard one apparently disenchanted visitor saying, “This is just like walking through an exhibition of all my Instagram photos.” The photos really do have the kind of candid, autobiographical feel that is like a collection of contemporary phone camera … Continue reading
Dennis Hopper’s The Lost Album at the Royal Academy of Arts
At the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition of Dennis Hopper’s photographic collection The Lost Album I heard one apparently disenchanted visitor saying, “This is just like walking through an exhibition of all my Instagram photos.” The photos really do have the kind of candid, autobiographical feel that is like a collection of contemporary phone camera … Continue reading
Dark Rides
I recently went to the Tate Britain for the first time while some friends from the States were visiting. I enjoyed our walk around its placid galleries–a wonderful way to spend a cloudy afternoon. But I admit it wasn’t the most compelling collection of art I’ve ever seen, though there are a few standout pieces. … Continue reading
The Ice Bear
I don’t know if you’ve ever carved an ice sculpture. Neither had I until last Saturday, when my flatmate dragged me out to the London Ice Sculpture Festival at Canary Wharf. The large ice sculptures around us gave an overarching impression of grace and majesty, like silent statues of dancers. This did not in any … Continue reading
Anthropological Anxieties
I’ve been watching Grayson Perry’s series on the English class boundaries around ‘taste’ (titled helpfully ‘In the Best Possible Taste’). His research was ultimately aimed towards creating six large tapestries, but as the techniques he’s using to do the research are largely anthropological in nature it brought home for me again some of the anxieties … Continue reading
Painted Women
I am absolutely in love with this new BBC series, “Desperate Romantics.” It’s about the formation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in the Victorian period. It’s being told in the voice of Frederic George Stephens (Fred), a writer portrayed in the series as a moth to the dazzling personalities of the artists Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman … Continue reading
In a Merry Hour: Caitlin E McDonald 