Scotland’s biggest free anime convention, March 6th-7th
Free. Fun. For Everyone. D-Con Scotland is the only free manga/anime art exhibition of its kind to be held in Scotland. Now in its second year, this accessible anime convention is attracting more attention and high profile exhibitors and sponsors. This year’s hotly anticipated gathering is taking place on [...]

Public lecture Tuesday 9th February 7pm
Professor Lachlan MacKinnon, in association with the British Science Society, will present an open lecture on the role of computer games and interactive entertainment technologies in ‘serious business’ tonight (Tuesday 9th February) at 7pm at the University of Abertay Dundee.
The computer games industry and its importance on the local, UK [...]

Central Stn have some more information on their blog regarding the new V&A museum to be built in Dundee.
Georgina Follett has been seconded from her position as Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design to lead the V&A at Dundee project which will deliver a Victoria & Albert Museum on the waterfront [...]

One of the rising stars of Silicon Valley will visit Dundee next week to meet with other women hoping to make their mark in the traditionally male-dominated world of technology.
Shanna Tellerman, named the world’s Best Young Tech Entrepreneur by Business Week magazine, will help to launch the Girl Geek Speaker Series 2010.
The Girl Geek Scotland [...]

Author William Fiennes will visit Dundee next week to discuss his award-winning books and First Story, the groundbreaking scheme he founded to get young people interested in writing.
Fiennes, whose latest book, The Music Room, has received critical acclaim, will discuss ‘The Importance of Words’, the latest installment in the University of Dundee’s Saturday Evening Lecture [...]

Slow Motion is the latest release from Robert Jan Meyer on the gorgeous Munich label Compost Records. Robert Jan Meyer aka Minus 8 the Swiss producer has been making music since the late 80’s. The culmination of years of music exploration came in the early 90’s when he launched his Minus 8 project.

It seems an age since we had the taster track Strange Fruit from M9 to whet our appetites for his imminent album release 144,000, which drops on the 10th November 2008.

A fourth album from Birmingham’s Mike Skinner and it seems the further he goes from the bedroom dynamics which formed his début record, the worse he sounds.

Sam Bourne (Jonathan Freedland) has already been touted as the biggest challenger to Dan Brown’s title as the best thriller fiction writer.

LesMTS has reviewed the recent Doug Stanhope gig at the Jazz Bar in Edinburgh.
A bleary eyed Stanhope, sporting a fledgling mullet, field cap and battered pilot’s jacket, edges his way through the throng at the bar of this tiny, crowded basement venue, politely acknowledging pats on the back and hands thrust out for shaking, and [...]

Everyone knows that Dundee is a hotbed of creative talent, from cultural to information technology. One local business pushing the boundaries is Realtime Worlds. Started by Dave Jones , the creator of Lemmings and the Grand Theft Auto franchise, RTW is developing games for next generation consoles, while employing a fair few Dundonians within its [...]

Jim is a key figure in Scotland’s music scene. Championing local music he was the first to play artists like The View and KT Tunstall. We managed to catch up with him to ask him a few questions about local music, winning the John Peel Award and the future of radio.

After a lot of hype and promotion and a lot of excitement over announced speakers NEoN fest finally got underway today. The festival is taking part over various venues in Dundee but the main talks are based at the new Dalhousie building at the University of Dundee. This was the first time I’d visited the [...]

It was the first of it’s kind in Scotland. A mass organised zombie walk through Kelvingrove Park in the West End of Glasgow. I made my way through for it with my camera to see how it unfolded. It was awesome.
In what must rank as one of the most surreal things I’ve ever seen I [...]

At one point, just before the market crashes which have brought the globe to a virtual stand still, people could walk around town freely and no matter where they they looked new buildings were being constructed. Everything from factories, supermarkets, housing developments and the odd mega structure there were no shortages of active building sites. [...]

A couple of years ago I went to the Flash on the Beach conference in Brighton, a conference for Flash developers and other creatives. Anyway, I had the great privilege to meet a gentleman called Andre Michelle who has a love for programming and music.
Simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16step sequencer. Each triggered [...]

If you’re a graphic artist or designer and for some reason find you have the urge to create a masterpiece while in your local coffee shop, you can no do so, through a web browser, with the worlds first online vector drawing tool, Raven. Raven is just one of a variety of graphic related tools [...]