Monthly Archives: February 2008

Edinburgh freeze update

Various forums now report that the pre-game meet for the Waverley freeze will be by the Scott Monument at 2.30pm, with the freeze now taking place on Rose Street or in Princes Street Gardens at 3.30pm. Apparently there’s concern that too many people are planning to turn up for it to work in the station

metaLOL (or, I am really very hard at work)

There’s something wonderful about an entry in Wikipedia explaining a LOLcat image in which a cat is – in turn – explaining that he’s editing an entry in Wikipedia.

London Freeze videos and post-mortem

Last week’s London Freeze offers up a few lessons for the Edinburgh edition. The visual effect of the original US event seemed to come from the contrast between the realtively small number of frozen players and the steady flow of traffic (and, consequently, new “audience”) through Grand Central Station. In contrast, Trafalgar Square was packed

course information updated

Note to any students – the course pages for Activism and Performance have been brought up to date with extended reading lists and are accessible through the links in the column on the far left.