The Happy Duckling is a zany animated adventure set in a pop-up book world, accompanied by a whimsical original score from composer Mick Cooke of Belle and Sebastian.
Writer/director Gili Dolev put together a team of students from Dundee Scotland who produced this short film.
The film follows the antics of a young boy in his [...]

Video Games Live is a multimedia concert experience featuring the best music and exclusive synchronized video clips from the most popular games from the beginning of video gaming to the present. Performed by top orchestras and choirs, the show combines exclusive video footage and music arrangements with synchronized lighting, solo performers, stage show production, special [...]

Tickets for the 2010 Hogmanay street party in Edinburgh are now on sale and the lineup for the 5 day event has just been announced.
The event headliners Madness joined by Noisettes and Codeine Velvet Club at the Concert in the Gardens. The world famous Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Street Party welcomes headliners The Enemy, MYLO, Frightened Rabbit, [...]

SuperFly have announced their call for entries for their 2010 SuperFly on the Wall initiative.
‘SuperFly on the Wall’ is an opportunity for ‘us’, the world, to see what you good creative folks are up to, as if we were a fly on your wall. We want to see your workspace, what you do, what drives [...]

The site is now back up and running smoothly after extensive software updates. But more importantly we’ve moved the site to a new web server, a faster meaner one so the site will be performing much better now, much like back in the old days. Thanks for your patience during the down time.

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 [...]