Beyond Project

In celebration, here is a ‘Dance your PhD’ video for your delight!  (see explanation of dance below the video).

One day you may well see me dancing stakeholder’s motivations, impacts and cultural sustainability of their involvement in community media education activity.  (of course danced in an ethnographic way!)

Until then, enjoy Kat Potter and friends…..

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Exactly one week until the good people of England, Scotland and Wales go to the polls, our film got a sudden boost  of publicity yesterday when – stranger than fiction – the current British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called a woman pensioner who confronted him “a bigot”.  * 

Here is how the plans for the film’s main characters, due to be released next Thursday May 6th (UK election day), are shaping up. 

Character synopsis 

Jim Carrey plays Gordon Brown  ... read more »

Just the other day I wrote about how the  punk scene of the 70s, and the hip hop scene of the 80s and early 90s, both drew on DIY culture and the principle of creating your own noise if you were being ignored.  Punk lost its’ pioneer Malcolm Mclaren a couple of weeks ago, and this week Hip Hop lost one its’ own pioneers, Guru from the group Gang Starr, who lost his battle with cancer. ... read more »

If there’s one thing that the late Malcolm McLaren was an advocate of, it was the DIY approach to producing culture. He was also someone that had an eye for cutting edge bits of (underground) culture that he saw around him, and packaged them to create wider audiences. I was never a punk (I was only 5 in 1977), but in the 80s when my school mates were into the Sex Pistols, I was listening to early hip hop (Electro albums, Afrika Bambatta, etc), but I feel they shared a common ethos of DIY culture – if you’re being ignored, then create your own noise. ... read more »