Omniversity’s Short Story Writing Workshops have proven to be a success. This was the second time we ran the course and hopefully there will also be a third. Writers learned about structuring and editing their stories, but also how to communicate with the publishers. For many it seemed to be a great motivation to take their writing ambitions further.
It is a good time to refresh our memory about the connection between the AND (Abandon Normal Devices) Festival and MadLab. There are some upcoming events that we should keep our eyes open to, especially the bimonthly Citizen X workshops run by Heath Bunting in MadLab (first on the 25th of February).
This is how AND Festival has defined itself:
“Abandon Normal Devices (AND) is an energetic regional festival of new cinema, digital culture and art. The festival takes place annually in Liverpool and Manchester on alternate years, with an extended regional programme. AND’s mission is to change the way we think and push the boundaries of audience experience through a programme that spills out from the screens into the streets of the Northwest.”
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We would like to thank everyone who defied the cold and came down to the MadLab maintenance day last Sunday. We got a lot done. The day started off with Alex making bacon butties for everyone and we continued with crossing out many things on our ‘to-do list’.
The professional training courses programme Omniversity has a tradition of making videos to advertise courses, but this time MadLab is taking it up a notch and is aiming to put HTML in a music video. Sounds crazy? Well, it is going to happen. We have the song, the choreographer and a team of video-makers, but now we are really gearing up to get it done and are waiting for all of you to join in. And by all we really mean ALL – don’t worry if you are not the best singer – just join in for the fun, you can dance or lip sync or put you talents in use in some other aspect of video production. The video will be filmed in Northern Quarter around the Edge Street.
So if you want to take part you have to make sure you are available on all three. Spread the word, come yourself and take your friends.
The video is made to advertise the Omniversity’s Web Design Foundation courses. Web Design Foundation are modular courses, run by Chris Mill, covering the basics of Web Design, HTML, CSS, and Advanced HMTL & CSS. You can jump in at any level. We’ve successfully run these courses last year, and can’t wait to spread W3C compliance to all and sundry. But don’t just take our word for it, here are some testimonials.
Here is an example of a previous video
VVVV + MapTools : introduction to the tools of projection mapping (2) from Prohyena on Vimeo.
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Are you a coder, artist or audio designer interested in videogame design? Or, are you a gamer who’s curious about how videogames are put together? If so, we’d like to invite you to come join us at Madlab for the Manchester gamejam! Madlab will be hosting the event for the full weekend, so Manchester’s community of nerds, artists and gamers can get together to design and code playable videogames from scratch in just 48 hours! (more…)
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