Skinningrove Digital Village

What have Middlesbrough Music Live and Loftus Library got in common? Four rubber blocks that’s what. Thanks to Martie at Music Live I took  charge of 4 rubber blocks and shipped them down to Lofus calling on Mr Motivator, Barry Hunt to help offload. They’re now sitting under John the librarians desk so when [...]

We had an excellent visit to the Mining Museum in Skinningrove this week and we’d like to thank CIMM for their hospitality. Particularly we’d like to mention the three volunteers Alan, Liz and Ian who took us through various parts of the mine and told us of the working and the history. We had [...]

Following on from yesterdays Marske visit we once again hit the Healthy Heritage Highway and had an afternoons walk right through Skinningrove. We were met at the Tom Leonard Mining Museum by Barry Hunt and by the time we reached the Doorstep Green we were also  joined by Tommy Evans so we had the [...]

The community animation event in Saltburn on Thursday was a tremendous successes with a full house for the matinee (in which we hooked up with children and police in Latvia) and around 80 people for the evening event. We even made it onto Latvian National TV !

You can relive the event on the [...]

With the assistance of Northern Film and Media and the UK Film Council there will be a Fringe Animex event in Saltburn featuring community produced animations. This will take place at 7.30pm on February 11th at Saltburn Community Theatre, Albion Terrace, Saltburn, TS12 1JW.

Featured this year will be World Première of “The Force [...]

I am currently at a workshop in Vienna about video bridging,I have discused a project about a jetty in my home community that has been badly neglected.Yesterday when I was watching the news it spoke of the people in Haiti not being able to land urgently needed supplies by sea as the jetty was [...]

I am currently at a workshop in Vienna about video bridging,I have discused a project about a jetty in my home community that has been badly neglected.Yesterday when I was watching the news it spoke of the people in Haiti not being able to land urgently needed supplies by sea as the jetty was [...]

Institute of Digital Innovation Xmas Card from IDI on Vimeo.

No prizes for identifying the voice of the Geordie, Elvis Santa Clause.

I came across some pages from Christmas 2000. This was when the only public computer was in 14 Stone Row and the flood defences were just being built. This makes an [...]

Yesterday I watched a craftsman, Paul Li, at work. I learned so much just watching and was inspired to improve my own build. The Skinningrove set is well on it’s way now as you can see by visiting http://slurl.com/secondlife/TeesLife/110/185/148 or looking at the accompanying pictures. You’ll see by one of the pics I’ve added [...]

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