We went to London Zoo today, with my Mum & Dad, and my brother and his wife.
It’s the sort of thing I keep thinking Picle, the photophonic app from Made by Many, was made for.
It works really well in that random, share the emotion of being there. I showed the video to James this evening, he was transfixed, and demanded to watch it again. To make a two year old silent and entranced is no mean feat.
I might try something a bit more intentionally constructed with Picle next. I think it might be an interesting way to build and tell a story with the Artefact cards. Take a picture of each one in a series, narrate it quick, build and share a story. We’ll see.
Anyway, speaking of Artefact, the first limited edition run will go into production very soon. If you think you want to buy a set, sign up here to the mailing list as the folks on that will get first dibs.
Smithery: A Picle Story From London Zoo http://t.co/Kw8uvgli (cc @madebymany)
You should absolutely love these “soundslides”.
They are to Picle what homo erectus is to human evolution.
A series of interviews with “artisans” as Nick Hands cycled (slowly) round the coast of the British Isles.
Here is Billy Bragg on song writing – http://slowcoast.co.uk/soundslides/soundslide.php?id=89
And this is a lovely interview with a blacksmith in County Mayo – http://slowcoast.co.uk/soundslides/soundslide.php?id=136
Lose yourself in the whole series – stick makers, basket weavers, Paul Smith, Howies – it is a beautiful project – http://slowcoast.co.uk/soundslides/
Oh wow, amazing… preparing to lose myself
Nice Picle. Like James, my children understand Picle right away, it’s very much like the kind of educational stuff that is good for them, like showing a picture of an orange and a nice Canadian lady says ‘Orange’, stressing heavily all the syllables.