Paul Miller

It just struck me how odd it is to be able to fly planes upside down so I went and had a look at how it’s actually done and came across this lovely story and accompanying video about Boeing test pilot Tex Johnston who first rolled a jumbo jet when testing the 707. The plane [...]

From January to March this year we ran a project for Nesta called Jailbrake to try and create new tech based ventures that reduce youth offending and reoffending. Although we gave it a different name It was essentially based on the pattern of a Social Innovation Camp and the result – yet again – was [...]

I was lucky enough to be in the audience when Charlie Leadbeater gave this talk at the TED Salon in London a couple of months ago and I thought at the time it was one of the best explanations of why we need to think differently about education. As a side note I was reading [...]

When it comes to getting information out of local government I’m always reminded of this story from the ever prescient Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: “But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months.” “Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round [...]

After five years I’ve moved out of BedZed and into a new flat in Bethnal Green. What started as an experiment in sustainable living is now a pretty well known case study in eco building and overall can be considered a massive success. Technically, the flat that I lived in was flawless. Billl Dunster’s belief [...]

Just amazing. I’ve always been a sucker for ‘animations’ but this makes you realise quite how powerful computer generated techniques have become. There is apparently no ‘real’ footage in this film. The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo. (via Alfie)

Films Moon – Duncan Jones’s debut is just stunning. I’ve watched it again on DVD now and there are so many clever bits you don’t notice first time around. Also best original soundtrack for quite some time by Stourbridge’s finest Clint Mansell. It’s been adopted as favourite coding music at Everything HQ. Anvil – this [...]

In the early days of thinking about School of Everything we sometimes described it as “an eBay for teaching and learning” and the analogy kind of stuck. People understood what we meant especially when we clarified that it was about face-to-face learning rather than e-learning. Then we started to think about a similar business model [...]

Except Interesting. Roo Reynolds has done a nice little write-up.

Ivo and the team have put the whole of Us Now up online for everybody to watch. So you’ve got no excuses for not watching me in slightly soft-focus. Us Now from Banyak Films on Vimeo.