Chris Newton is a web developer currently living and working in Brighton. Chris was one of our Summer 2012 interns and during his time with us he built the social web tool, Elsewhere. URL: elsewherejs.com Elsewhere is a social graphing tool built to replace the Google Social Graph after its unfortunate demise in April 2012. […]
Category: General
Learning to Code
June 4, 2013 – 2:07 pm
We had a beautiful Coding For Humans day at the Lab for the Recently Possible last week. Ten people came for the day to learn how to create websites and web apps, with little or no experience beforehand. Amongst them were designers, writers, an event manager, animator, PR freelancer and geographical mapping expert. And boy […]
Visualising event attendance using Lanyrd & D3.js
December 18, 2012 – 11:00 am
Peter Cook is a software developer from Lewes, East Sussex. Here, he writes about visualising the topics that interest people when they mark themselves as attending our developer meetup, Async. Peter will be speaking at Async in January on using the data visualisation toolkit, D3.js During the summer months of 2012, the Lab for the […]
Athens, Austerity and Data Visualisation
December 7, 2012 – 11:38 am
Jaya Brekke is a photographer, filmmaker, designer and researcher, currently exploring the social impact of the economic crisis in Greece. She took part in one of our recent Data Visualisation Lab Days, where we brought together a melting pot of designers, programmers and people working in social projects. We wanted to build visual, interactive tools […]
Photos from Bring Your Own Beamer
November 6, 2012 – 9:00 am
Bring Your Own Beamer was an event we helped create at this year’s month-long Brighton Digital Festival. BYOB is a global artists’ movement where the idea is simple: find a place, invite artists and ask them to bring projectors for the night. There are no limits to the projections: DIY videos, generative art, anything. Brighton’s […]
Energy visualisation
October 30, 2012 – 9:00 am
Peter Cook is a software developer from Lewes, East Sussex. He took part in our recent Data Visualisation Lab Days, where we brought together a melting pot of designers, programmers and others, working together to produce visual, interactive tools that make use of real world data to help elucidate problems and facilitate change. For a […]
Work that doesn’t suck
October 24, 2012 – 9:00 am
An internship diary by Chris Newton. Chris took part in Dharmafly’s first summer internship, when three students joined us at the Lab for the Recently Possible to gain skills in developing experimental web applications. Some of their observations and reflections are posted in this blog. July 2012 – week 3 So, since I’m into my […]
DIY Digital Art: Our events at the Brighton Digital Festival
August 29, 2012 – 4:43 pm
The Brighton Digital Festival returns this September, and there’s a hugely impressive range of events. We’re offering a few events into the mix, all of which revolve around DIY digital art and film.
Learn to code, at “Coding For Humans”
August 24, 2012 – 3:53 pm
We’ve started teaching workshops on coding for the web. Our current course is aimed at beginners (there’ll be intermediate and advanced workshops in future). It’s for people who use the web, but want to get under its skin and learn what it takes to create simple websites and web applications.
Summer Events at L4RP
July 20, 2012 – 5:36 pm
We’ve got some exciting events coming up at the Lab for the Recently Possible – a project we’ve been forging over the last few months.