The Adventure Syndicate

This time in two weeks I’ll be sitting on a northbound train on my way up to Inverness where, the following Saturday, seven of us will set off at 6am in an attempt to ride the entire North Coast 500 route in under 36 hours. That’s 500 miles in a day and a half. Scottish […]

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PODCAST EP.17 – RICHARD HERRING

For podcast episode 17 I talked to award winning British stand up comedian and podcaster Richard Herring about fizzy pop, being a Dad, hecklers and life in, and out of, a double act. Thanks to Seamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support and Matt Lamont for additional editing. OTHER WAYS TO GET THE PODCAST ACAST APP ON ...

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PODCAST EP.16 PUB WALK WITH GARTH JENNINGS

Episode 16 of the podcast is another conversation with my friend Garth Jennings. He came to visit me in Norwich in December 2015 and we walked to the pub and back with Rosie. As we walked we talked about how Garth’s Lemon Tart story from podcast episode 6 had gone down with his nearest and ...

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What Goes Around

Jack Thurston heads to mid-Wales to meet Emily Chappell, former London bike messenger turned author turned ultra endurance racer. Plus the social enterprise that's finding a new use for the Royal Mail's unwanted fleet of postal bikes, as Elephant Bikes.

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Mechanical Product Design Engineer

Are you looking for interesting Mechanical Design Jobs in Edinburgh? Our client is a global industry leader in the design development and manufacture of cutting edge electronics-based products for a range of international customers covering medical, industrial, communication and defence sectors. They are investing heavily in the UK, both R&D and manufacturing, and are urgently looking for a Mechanical Product Design Engineer based in Edinburgh, to be involved in innovative end-to-end solutions for a range of customers. Joining a very talented and experienced team, the Mechanical Product Design Engineer - Scotland will work closely with a variety of customers, helping shape their product ideas and translating them into R&D projects and ultimately helping deliver new products for customers across medical, healthcare, comms, networking and other industries. You will work closely with their electronics and software counterparts, under the guidance of an overall Project Manager, to deliver innovative mechanical designs for products which could include mechatronics, fluidics, automation, precision actuation, robotics etc. Applicants for the position of Mechanical Product Design Engineer - Scotland should have a strong academic track record and demonstrable experience in mechanical design within similar environments, ideally covering some of the above, and be familiar with 3D CAD packages, ideally ProE / Creo or Solidworks. ...

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Fashion Revolution Scotland

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Students give Shakespeare a contemporary twist

   

·       First details of the production unveiled

·       Performance on Saturday 23 April 2016

Students from The University of Glasgow, The Glasgow School of Art and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland have joined forces with the musicians of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra to create Dream On!, inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in celebration of Shakespeare 400.

Over the last six months hundreds of young performers, composers, dancers, designers, film makers, sound and light designers and technicians, dramaturgs and professional musicians have worked together to create all aspects of the production from the music and performance to garments and other wearables, digital and interaction design elements on the main stage, and the brand identity.  

Dream On! will take place on the evening of Saturday 23 April 2016 in the magnificent setting of the University of Glasgow and will be streamed online by the BBC to audiences across the UK.  

A powerful demonstration of the city’s creativity, Dream On!illustrates the abiding influence of Shakespeare - his work is as inspirational and relevant today as it was four hundred years ago.

Details of the production and how the different groups of students and musicians have collaborated were revealed today along with the project identity.

The audience will be treated to a promenade production in which music and performance combine with digital installation to create a dream-like world for a contemporary take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

RCS student composers Alex Mackay, Robert Allan, Rory Comerford and Juta Pranulyte have each written a new work to be performed by members of the BBC SSO, comprising performers, dancers, film makers and some for interpretation into British sign language. Collaborating with dramaturgs from the University of Glasgow, designers from GSA and performers and production students from RCS, they have created four performance pieces to be unveiled at the event later this month.

Design students at The Glasgow School Art have designed and styled garments and wearables for the performers in the event, as well as producing digital and projected elements that will contribute to its contemporary edge.

Meanwhile, in close collaboration with dramaturgy students at the University of Glasgow, the GSA design students have also created the brand identity for Dream On!, producing a range of marketing and programme materials from film and print to social media. Click on the link to view the Dream On!trailer created by design students at GSA.

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All this work will culminate in an event staged in the Bute Hall of the University of Glasgow’s Bute Hall, directed and curated by Graham McLaren, currently Associate Director of The National Theatre of Scotland.

It was also announced today that Royal Conservatoire alumnus and leading Shakespearian actor, David Tennant, has pre-recorded a piece of Shakespearian text that has been incorporated into one of the compositions

An associated exhibition of objects and images that have been produced by the wider community of design students at The Glasgow School of Art as an interpretative response to some of the core themes within A Midsummer Night’s Dream has been co-curated bya student-led team from the GSA and the University of Glasgow.

Details on how to get a ticket for Dream On! will be revealed in early April.  

Media enquiries to:

Lesley Booth, press@gsa.ac.uk (m) 07799414474

Katie Bell k.bell@rcs.ac.uk  (t) 0141 270 8387

About the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s position as one of the pillars of Scotland’s musical life has been established steadily since it was founded in December 1935. Based at City Halls in Glasgow (since 2006), it is a key contributor to the BBC’s broadcasting and cultural role and performs to large and enthusiastic audiences in venues throughout Scotland, as well as carrying out a busy schedule of recordings, concerts and broadcasts for BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Scotland, BBC television, and online. A past recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for best orchestra, the BBC SSO has made over 120 commercial recordings, many of which have received prizes, including four Gramophone Awards.

www.bbc.co.uk/bbcsso

About the Glasgow School of Art

The Glasgow School of Art was founded in 1845 as one of the first Government Schools of Design, as a centre of creativity promoting good design for the manufacturing industries of Glasgow.  However, the School’s lineage can be traced to 1753, when Robert Foulis established a school of art and design in Glasgow, described as “the single most influential factor in the development of eighteenth-century Scottish Art”.  Today, The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) is internationally recognised as one of Europe's leading university-level institutions for the visual creative disciplines.

Our studio-based approach to research and teaching brings disciplines together to explore problems in new ways to find new innovative solutions.  The studio creates the environment for inter-disciplinarity, peer learning, critical enquiry, experimentation and prototyping, helping to addressing many of the grand challenges confronting society and contemporary business.

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About the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland i ranked sixth in the world for performing arts education.  The Conservatoire is a national and international centre of excellence for the performing arts. Building on our roots in 1847 as a national academy of music, we are now one of Europe’s most multi-disciplinary performing arts higher education centres offering specialised teaching across music, drama, dance, film and production as well as encouraging trans-disciplinary learning throughout our innovative curriculum.    We are bold, ambitious and optimistic about our future as a truly 21^st century conservatoire.  As we work towards 2020, our goal, through our students, staff and graduates, is to raise the transformative power and reach of the performing arts in Scotland and to project our distinctiveness to the wider world.  Our vision is to be Scotland’s globally-recognised and inspirational leader in learning for the performing arts, attracting and nurturing the best Scottish and international creative talent.

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About the University of Glasgow

As a top 1% university, we deliver world-class and world-changing research and education with impact. We are a member of the prestigious Russel Group of leading UK Universities with annual research income of more than £181m and the top student satisfaction rates in Scotland. 

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PODCAST EP.13 & 14 – BOWIEWALLOW PT.1 & 2

I WUZZ FEELING VERY BLUE… Podcasts 13 & 14 feature responses from myself and others to Bowie’s death on January 10th 2016. I thought seeing as absolutely no one seems to have paid tribute to Bowie or talked about how much he affected their lives, I should give it a go as I’m such a ...

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CONTRIBUTE TO THE ADAM & JOE CHRISTMAS PODCAST 2015!

Hello Adam Buxton podcast listeners and loyal Black Squadroneers! I’m seeing Joe this weekend (19th December 2015) and the plan is to record some burbling to put out on Christmas day as a special Adam & Joe edition of my podcast. It’s been 5 years (I think) since we did a christmas podcast, so it’s ...

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Laser Cut-and-Weld Makes 3D Objects

Everybody likes 3D printing, right? But it’s slow compared to 2D laser cutting. If only there were a way to combine multiple 2D slices into a 3D model. OK, we know that you’re already doing it by hand with glue and/or joints. But where’s the fun in that?

LaserStacker automates the whole procedure for you. They’ve tweaked their laser cutter settings to allow not just cutting but also welding of acrylic. This lets them build up 3D objects out of acrylic slices with no human intervention by first making a cutting pass at one depth and then selectively re-welding together …read more

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C.H.I.P. vs Pi Zero: Which Sub-$10 Computer Is Better?

Now there are two capable, sub-$10 computers for Makers — the $5 Pi Zero and the $9 C.H.I.P. — we compare the specs of each.

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PODCAST EP.10 – LOUIS THEROUX

Podcast number 10 (the last in the current series) features a conversation between myself and Louis Theroux. I’ve known Louis since I was 13. In case you haven’t seen it, here’s a video of me, Joe and Louis dancing to Deee-Lite 25 years ago to illustrate the profound nature of our bond. The conversation was ...

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Cycle Revolution at London’s Design Museum

Tim Dawson has the lowdown on a major new exhibition of bicycles at London's Design Museum, including cargo bikes, city bikes and the bikes used by Merckx, Moser and Wiggins to break the Hour Record. He speaks with the shows curator Donna Loveday and consider the show's strengths and weaknesses. Tim and host Jack Thurston then wonder if it's right and proper to fall in love with a bicycle and discuss other great cycle collections in the UK and overseas.

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Can you solve it? The crossword that counts itself

Here’s a self-referential puzzle for our self-obsessed age.

Hello guzzlers.

First I’d like to introduce my friend Lee Sallows, who is a master at writing sentences that count the number of letters they contain. Like this classic:

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PODCAST EP.9 – CAITLIN MORAN

Didn’t do one of these for Rob Delaney last week. No disrespect to Rob. I was just struggling to stay afloat so cut myself some slack. Podcast number 9 features a conversation between myself and Cailtin Moran, fast talking writer of funny and thoughtful things about how we treat each other in the modern age. ...

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Five-Day Forecast

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How are cyclists most likely to die?

Nearly 90 cyclists were killed riding their bikes in England and Wales last year, but how are you most likely to come a cropper while cycling? And are you more likely to die falling off a ladder? Helen Pidd sifts through the figures

Would you have guessed that 70 people died in England and Wales in 2014 from falling off a ladder? That 15 fell off a cliff and yet just one man died falling out of a tree last year? Five women died from “pain and other conditions associated with female genital organs and menstrual cycle”; nine people passed away from a “foreign body entering into or through eye or natural orifice”. The list of ways to die, detailed in Office for National Statistics (ONS) annual mortality data published, goes on.

But as a cyclist, I was most interested in looking at how cyclists died. The stats make sobering reading.

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PODCAST EP.7 – SCROOBIUS PIP (DOUBLE HELPING)

Podcast 7 features conversations with British rappulist and podcaster Scroobius Pip. We talked about podcasting (of course), forgetting people’s names, stuttering and rudeness. It was fun. On regret though: my hilarious off the cuff comment referring to an excess of Marc Maron as being ‘over Maronated’ would have been better if I’d said ‘over MaronADED’, ...

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