Festivals & AUC, again!

What a fantastic week it was. The ScienceTeller Festival was a week to remember. I got my display up and running finally on Wednesday morning at about 9:30am. The 1877 Gallery at the Otago Museum was a nice place to be, if a little out of the way for people to find. The talks were inspiring and informative. Jay O’Callahan took us to the stars with his performance of Forged In The Stars, a love story to NASA to celebrate 50 years of space exploration, and Lawrence Krauss ventured into quantum physics and dark matter. Both workshops from each of these storytelling celebrities were also fantastic.

Before the madness of the festival began I received the exciting news that I had won another scholarship from the Australian University Consortium (AUC) to attend the CreateWorld 2011 in Brisbane, Australia. My last trip with the AUC saw me in Sydney learning about Apps and the software used to build them. This time I get to learn more about using Digital Media in a creative way. My flight leaves at 5pm today, so this is the first of my posts about my time over there. I will post a daily reviewe of my time there.

However, for now, I must get to the airport. I will leave you with some images of my FishPod display. A special note goes out to iPadEnclosures.com, the enclosure they sent me worked a treat and it was a fantastic way to use an iPad and feel confident that it was safe and could be accessed easily. I used the Full Metal Jacket enclosure with the Figure 8 mounting system.  Thank you Bryan for getting the whole thing to me on time.

Enjoy.