Brooklyn School TV
In 2012 I worked with Year 7 and 8s to develop a weekly news show. I taught the key members how to green-screen, audio mix and do lighting. Then I stood back. (Well, not completely I still helped with their…
Inspiration photos while I studied
View More...Scout on Swing
Scout’s first time on a Swing.
First version of my Sonic Cable
View More...These are my most listened to artists in 2011
A mashup of Wordle and Last.fm.
Music Video for Alex the Kid
A quick music video I made for the NZ band Alex the Kid. I edited Public Domain footage from the Prelinger Archives.
Dress up and Get Down
YO YO DADDY-O! ALAN AND SARAH ARE HAVING A HOUSEWARMING HAPPENING AT THEIR NEW PAD – HOWL! IT’S ALSO 10 YEARS SINCE THEY MET – YEAH! GET READY TO JIVE, JAZZ & ZWOWIE. DJs, BANDS and BEATS. BRING A RHYME…
VUW Continuing Education Course – Save and Share your Digital Photos
A course I wrote and taught for the VUW Continuing Education department. Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Tutorials: Brighten up an image – using Curves and Levels Retouching – with eye colour and makeup Redeye Removal…
Fonts
Fonts I have made. Free to use. Download here. Llicensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Brooklyn School Laptop Project
A website for researching getting a laptop suite for Brooklyn School. An example of an early attempt to have 1:1 computer use. I think we managed to get a set for 1 between 2 students. I was also preempting the…
The Monkey Arm Project
A collaborative project for my online teaching degree. A whole lot of work was put into this, perhaps more then there should have been.
Piloting Tablet PCs in Primary Schools
A project with HP NZ and LEA. This pre-dated the iPad. We found that pen based work was particularly useful for dyslexic students. But the laptops and their charging were still quite cumbersome. A big focus was on the creative…
C.H.A.O.S – Children have ownership of schooling
A video I made showing the teaching process at Brooklyn Primary School, Wellington. I had a cold during the voice-over.
The Resistance at Valve (2006)
Just did photography. The Resistance at Valve in 2006.
Student Work: Claymation
Output from a workshop on animation with students from Ripley St Thomas School in Lancaster, UK.
Ashton Memorial, Lancaster 2005
Ashton Memorial, Lancaster, UK
Stop Motion Video – Lancaster
A stop-motion video made with friends on a cold day in Lancaster, UK. (Source: )
NUMUSIC Festival 2005 (Stavanger)
I did security and roadie work for Karlheinz Stockhausen’s performances. KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN (DE) (3 days, 6 concerts, 9 works).FRIDAY/SATURDAY/SUNDAY 26-28.08STOCKHAUSEN A LIVE EXCLUSIVE : AN ELECTRONIC LEGACY3 days, 6 concerts, 9 works, in an exclusively designed concert venue. Aug 26…
Christmas Software CD I gave out to friends.
_______Alan’s CD Megamix________ Everything is freeware or Open Source! Description of some of the files (Print this page): Administration Adaware – Rids spy programs Registry Cleaner – Cleans pokey Info in registry Startup – Control What starts up and doesnt…
LEA – Worked as Instructional Designer
View More...Curriculum Integration section for TKI
As part of my job at LEA in Wellington was to build the Curriculum Integration section for the TKI website. The concepts were still relatively new to the wider teaching public and this was a resource for those beginning to…
A Flash animation I did for TKI
Certainly quite busy but it was high-tech in its time and I kinda like the font work.
Business Card Design – You have to start somewhere.
Business cards I made when I was doing freelance graphic design back in the ’90s.
The first Computer I brought
The first computer I ever brought. It ended costing me twice the amount after I paid off the hire purchase. My cellphone is of course more powerful now.
Gritz Cafe 1996
I started and ran a youth cafe for a few years in Whangarei, New Zealand when I was 17. I found some old footage from one night in 1996.