Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Trying something new for 30 days

    One of the things we tried as part of out in-house ‘digital festival’ was a daily ‘digital cinema’. Basically we booked out our meeting room, supplied popcorn and showed a couple of interesting videos from around the web to whoever showed up. To be honest it wasn’t a resounding success (unlike the rest of the…

  • A cognitive surplus surplus

    So that was quick. The dream has died. They say there are no original ideas anymore and also that timing is everything. Both these things seemed to conspire against me on this occasion.* I’m feeling a bit low about this to be honest as I had worked myself up in to a bit of a…

  • Coping with Commuting

    My commute is a subject never far from my thoughts. I wake up wondering what public transport calamity will befall me that day. I fall to sleep wondering if I remembered to charge the devices that make my commute bearable and often get up to check. I have a commuting rhythm and any slight knock…

  • Kickstarting a Kickstarter?

    I’ve just shared my idea for a Bristol based alternate-universe style adventure comic book over on Medium. A few people have expressed an interest in it actually happening and I have been interested in the inner-workings of Kickstarter for a while so I am looking in to the idea of giving it a go. The…

  • Bristol Fashion

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Suspension_bridge_at_Clifton.jpg A Bristol comic book adventure…maybe? I’ve always wanted to write my own comic book. In fact at one point I thought my limited drawing skills might stretch to also providing the art for my little comic. This was clearly a dream too far! For a few years now I’ve been playing with the same…