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Grizedale Arts Website
Grizedale Arts is a residency and commisioning organisation based in the Lake District, who's practise is "adding complexity to confusion". We have been working with them for a number of years on various projects, and are pleased to have launched a new website for them at the same time as their new residency space at Lawson Park was launched. As ever this is a work in progress and part of an ongoing relationship, so expect it to develop and transform over the coming years.
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Web Server Failure
On Thursday the 25th at approximately 20:42 a power failure with another server in the rack cause a breaker to trip, powering down my server. Initially the server seemed to come back fine, but errors were later spotted. These were due to a physical error on one of the hard drives where all of your websites are hosted, causing the disk array it is on to fail. At approximately 23:48pm the server was rebooted in an attempt to get the drives back on line, and again failed to recover fully.
My ISP were informed of the issued and worked through the night, but were unable to recover the hard drive arrangement. I started a recovery of the data from backup to a second disk array within the system with the aim of bringing up the core of the web sites in as short a time as possible - though the 146GB of data would have taken a long time to copy up!
In the meantime I also tried to recover data on the second local drive - the drive which had failed was one of a pair storing all website data in parallel, and the secondary drive was also failing to recover for unknown reasons.
At around 17:30 yesterday I managed to recover and get access tot the data on the spare hard drive which had failed, and proceeded to copy the data from that to a new pair of master disks. This was completed at 21:45 yesterday evening, and full service was restored. As far as I am aware no data was lost.
The system which went down was purely used for website hosting, and so none of your email was affected during the outage.
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head to toe for ross phillips at the design museum
Head To Toe is a site specific installation by Ross Phillips for Super Contemporary at The Design Museum, featuring a network of kiosks capturing video clips of eitehr head, body, and legs which are then sent to a pod at the Design Museum where they can be viewed in the style of the classic children's book, flipping through the videos to see each clip.
We're happy to have built much of the software for this installation, including the video processing infrastructure, data synchronisation, moderation and web and kiosk interactives.
Visit the pods at the Design Museum, Selfridges, Covent Garden or Ideas Store and get yourself in on the action.
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colchester inn website
Completed earlier this year, but only just put live, is a new website for public works project Colchester Inn. This is the first stage of a project with First Site in Colchester, working with local communities to create works for the new First Site building.
The website is part blog, part mapping tool, part documentation of process, designed to show how the network of people involved in the projects grows and ideas are formed. To deal with this it switches from the standard blog format to something a bit more dynamic.
Whilst it uses horizontal navigation which is something I don't usually agree with - it goes against usability norms - here I am using it because it best represents a timeline, and more clearly delineates the entires. JavaScript is used to make the interface work more dynamically.
With any luck this will turn into a more full mapping project in the future, with more cross linking and different visualisations of the underlying structures and relationships created throughout the process.
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Part 8: The Royal Race for Nature
For part 8 of Toadball.TV (ne Agrifashionista) Birmingham based Juneau/Projects in colaboration with pupils from Virginia Primary School filmed a Krypton Factor meets Rock Band game show called The Royal Race for Nature.
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Part 7: Urbania Films
The Urbania Films document the practice and perspective of the members of the Urbania Collective, in the run up to their Soup Night at the Royal Academy on the 8th of January 2009, and documents their residency at Grizedale Arts Park-a-Moor 'Thinking Space For The North' in 2008.
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Part 6: myvillages.org/public works: Village Produce Films
Exploring the stories behind comunity produced goods, alternative channels of distribution and the value of goods we have now added the Village Produce Films produced by myvillages.org and public works to the growing body of work that was Agrifashionista.TV and is now ToadBall.TV
These films are part of an ongoing body of work, which has crossed over with Somewhere, Grizedale Arts and Nomad as they start create a network of Village Kiosks selling local produce, a network that anyone can join and evolve over time.
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Part 6: myvillages.org/public works: Village Produce Films
Exploring the stories behind comunity produced goods, alternative channels of distribution and the value of goods we have now added the Village Produce Films produced by myvillages.org and public works to the growing body of work that was Agrifashionista.TV and is now ToadBall.TV
These films are part of an ongoing project, which has crossed over with Somewhere, Grizedale Arts and Nomad as they start create a network of Village Kiosks selling local produce, a network that anyone can join and evolve over time.
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Part 5: William Pope L., The Convenience Store Project
The fifth episode on Agrifashionista has just launched, William Pope L.'s take on Convenience Store culture in modern society, at times bemusing but generally thought provoking.
The Convenience Store Project by William Pope L., 2008
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Part 5: William Pope L., The Convenience Store Project
The fifth episode on Agrifashionista has just launched, William Pope L.'s take on Convenience Store culture in modern society, at times bemusing but generally thought provoking.
The Convenience Store Project by William Pope L., 2008
