Creative Dundee

Crackdown 2 Vidoc 1: Fun with Friends

Dundee based Ruffian Games are developing the sequel to Realtime Worlds Xbox 360 hit Crackdown, they have been feverishly beavering away for the last couple of years trying to make a title that surpasses it's predecessor in every way.

Talent Show - Graeme Hawkins (retchy.com)

Here's a very nice little showreel from Dundee based Animator, VJ and sound designer Graeme Hawkins. Graeme's showreel shows off a fun and experimental approach to animation that the great Norman McLaren would be proud of. 

V&A Dundee Attracts International Interest

Here is a shameless link to a news story on the BBC website...

P.S. Please accept the above image as my entry into this competition... £47m please!

Miscellaneous Enquiries...

Miscellaneous Enquiries are eight female Dundee based artists who will be providing an evening of sound, film and interventions, which sounds intriguing, at the Tayside Recycling Centre, Friday 12th March at 8.30pm. So head along for the music and pick yourself up a new sofa... presumably!

The Oscars are coming...

 
Ahead of the Oscars this weekend and as a result of a competition offered by the tweeters over at the DCA, here's Alice Black giving the lowdown on the runners and riders at this year's Academy Awards. Listen to this podcast and you can learn how to win a whole months cinema at the DCA. 

The 82nd Oscars

Kill Your Timid Notion Podcast

 
If you don't know about 'Kill Your Timid Notion' then Barry Essen of Arika explains all as I grabbed him as the events were getting under way. Strong ideas, Beckett and Marx all feature in our brief chat. Enjoy and be surprised!

Kill Your Timid Notion

Alice Black Returns Hot Foot from the Berlinale

Alice Black, Head of Cinema, has just returned from the 60th Berlin Film Festival and we grabbed the opportunity to record a podcast with her. What would a woman who watched 45 movies in 10 days have to say? Well, she tells us what's hot and also about emerging themes in "Children's Cinema". And she rates the whole festival so you don't have to. Listen and feedback.

The Berlin Film Festival

NEoN 10 Event Details

 
NEoN 09 is done and dusted and was a pretty good success. It even made it into the list magazines hot 100 for 2009. This just means that it all has to happen again! 

Central Station: Dundee

Glasgow based creative social network Central Station are coming to Dundee on the 6th of February and they want you to be there.

Twitter Picture 2

Dundee refugee Johanna Basford is working on her second Twitterpic today (14th Jan) go here to see her updates live... http://www.johannabasford.com/twitterpicture

or tweet her your suggestions @johannabasford #twitterpic