Nice article from Postivesharing.com on unusual work spaces, I’m loving Kathy Sierra’s trailer (pictured) … as long as the doggie comes with it. Read the full articles here http://bit.ly/19xyUV
I’ve seen a similar stand used to promote The Guardian at this year’s Edinburgh Book Festival. Not sure how popular they are with the public – feels a bit like being in Currys with the tablet commanding more attention than the content.
Yes it’s exactly how it sounds. Because there’s more to life than just working hard 5 days a week, we are re-branding Fridays as Ping Pong Fridays or least the later afternoon bit anyway. One Friday a month from 7pm we set up our Ping Pong table at screenWORKS and embarrass ourselves, as members, potential members and the curious come along, grab a coffee, a beer, a bat (or is it a paddle?) and let battle commence.
There’s no skill involved (speaking for screenWORKS staff here) and those who don’t fancy participating are welcome to stand by and openly jeer – as long as they bring nice biscuits.
So if you have any interest in finding out more about screenWORKS, about workspace membership or you just want to be nosey and see what we do, come along, say hello, we promise to be really friendly and make you feel right at home.
Screengrab, the online film magazine formally found on these fair pages, has recently moved to it’s very own dedicated site.
There you’ll find lots of shiny Edinburgh International Film Festival related goodies plus exciting new content coming at you each and every week. As we are archiving at the moment older issues can still be found here for your retrospective pleasure.
So check out the new site, you’ll find it at: http://screengrabmag.co.uk/
Edinburgh screenWORKS launches one week FREE. Next week from June 6th to 10th come and try out coworking for free. The office will be open for tours, trial days and checking out the space from 9.30am to 5.30pm every weekday next week. Ever wanted to try out or get back into coworking and hot-desking? Escape from the house and come along to screenWORKS for one week completely free only next week.
Any questions feel free to send us an email at info@edinburghscreenworks.co.uk, call 0131 623 6160 or drop by for a chat.
Once upon a time there was a limp vampire franchise that, despite its ‘sex equals death’ message and almost complete lack of any real incident, reaped huge financial rewards and spawned countless imitators. Yet when the vampire genre had, for the time being, been exhausted and the audience had endured a veritable pack of wolf-man features, filmmakers were forced to look elsewhere for fantasy fodder to feed hungry appetites. It is here that the classic literary fairy tale has come back into play, stories integral to the development of our identities and cultures are being repackaged for a preteen audience.
At some point within the last decade we entered an age of instant and undiscerning celebrity. We might have convinced ourselves that we could escape it; that there existed some invisible line that could help separate the famous faces worth bothering about from those who would eke out a living eating kangaroo genitals in a jungle on ITV. But that line became blurred. Perhaps you could argue that is in our nature Read the rest of this entry »
My first experience of a costume show was mildly surreal, slightly drunk due to the free cocktail and squeezed into a seat barely large enough for a child; I watched costumes enough to remake Lord of the Rings troop out for our pleasure and inspection. The ECA’s recent decision to dispense with a runway seems to have turned a good view into a lottery. The format is based on those now used in Salon style fashion shows and in taking away the stage does allow for a clearer view. Read the rest of this entry »
I was ten years old when Scream was first released in 1996 and thanks to a winning combination of careless parenting and unscrupulous salesmanship I was able to procure a copy from the local ice-cream man and watch it in on the sly. Initially, the horror of seeing the girl from E.T. mercilessly tormented and cut to bits by a masked killer was too much for me to bear Read the rest of this entry »
A family film that most British families won’t watch.
Luc Besson’s latest product, The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec is an absurd film that delivers a ridiculous storyline using various ridiculous characters and the odd moment of omniscient narration. A very self consciously silly film; Besson seems to have combined the visual style and absurd tragedy of a Baz Luhrmann film with the storyline of The Mummy. Although to make one clear distinction, these mummies are all laughably friendly, helpful even.
