Where are you? Friday, 30 October 2009
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I just combined our webstats with a World66 visited countries map to create a map showing the locations of all the visitors to The Lost Book website. You’re in 121 different countries:
Aren’t maps fun?!
In the news Monday, 26 October 2009
Posted by Helen in News.Tags: award, BAFTA Scotland, press
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Thanks to Laura Cummings and the Evening News for a wee mention in Saturday’s paper. It’s great to have support and coverage in Edinburgh’s press. The caption says “Delighted: Helen Jackson” which captures some of the jumping-about joy I’ve been expressing!
Read the piece online: Interactive animation ‘The Lost Book’ up for Bafta.
Interactive Friday, 23 October 2009
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It’s been quite a week! We’re still bouncing about with excitement after the BAFTA Scotland nomination. I thought you might like to see the other nominees in the Interactive category – after all, if you like The Lost Book, you might like them.
In alphabetical order, then, first up is British Music Experience. I have to confess to knowing next to nothing about the project – according to the website it’s “Britain’s new interactive museum of popular music” at The O2, where you can “explore, play, sing and dance your way through 60 years of British music history”. Gotta be fun!
The other contender is Cybraphon, a local project. Cybraphon is essentially a cabinet that plays music (the artists, Edinburgh-based collective FOUND, describe it as “an autonomous, emotional robot band”). But, and here’s the fun bit, Cybraphon has moods which define what tunes it plays. Cybraphon’s moods are dependent on how much it’s being talked about online. If it were plugged in at the moment (which apparently it isn’t) this blog post would no doubt cheer it up!
The awards ceremony is on Sunday 8th November 2009 and we’re up against worthy opponents. Hope you enjoy exploring British Music Experience and Cybraphon – but keep your fingers crossed for us!
Nominated for a BAFTA Scotland award! Monday, 19 October 2009
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Great news: The Lost Book has been nominated in the Interactive category for the BAFTA Scotland Awards 2009!
This nomination is for everyone involved in The Lost Book, and that includes all of you who took part in writing the story. Here’s our entry form – we made sure you were listed in the credits:
Dinosaur Summer Friday, 16 October 2009
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Did you know there’s a sequel to The Lost World? Arthur Conan Doyle wrote several more Professor Challenger stories, but didn’t go back to South America. Instead, Greg Bear continued the story in his novel Dinosaur Summer. It’s set in 1947 and considers what would happen in a world where live dinos had been found. The answer: dinosaur circuses!
We’ve sent a copy around the world. Readers so far say:
“This was a fantastic adventure story with an old fashioned feel to it” (Shimmy-crazy in the UK)
“The prose here isn’t as flowery as Doyle’s, but the story is equally compelling, as the story builds to a dramatic climax on the plateau.” (ResQgeek in Virginia, USA)
“It was such a gripping story that I could not bear to lower it even for a moment!” (TomHl, pictured at Logan International Airport in Boston)
“Really good for a sequel novel… Good to see also the updating of the plateau to include dinosaurs with feathers” (davemurray101 in New South Wales, Australia)
A second copy has just started travelling the world, brought into the project by hyphen8 in Hawaii. If you’d like to read it you can join BookCrossing and get in touch with hyphen8.
The Lost Book is an animated web series where you wrote the plot.
