Pete Hindle

Recently, I had a meeting with both my supervisors and the two lecturers who run my course. This slightly-scary meeting was labelled in my diary as “super supervisory meeting”. These are my notes from that meeting. (click for more notes)

This site’s not finished yet – the ‘about‘ page is less than informative, the theme’s a little clunky – so you might not know that I’m doing a leading-edge research course in academica. Well, I haven’t really brought it up. As part of that course, we are occasionally required to write essays, and I wanted [...]

This blog entry might not look like a lot, but there is a fair amount of words to chew through in the linked files. project-proposal-dm-pete-hindle-v2 weeks-project feasibility-study These files relate to the ongoing work of Unnamed Laboratory, and to my coursework within the Digital Media unit. As such, they are here as much for reference [...]

As part of my research, I’ve been maintaining a list of Hackerspaces, Medialabs, and other related initiatives. But the problem of storing the data about them is one of storing it in a useful manner – how can I create a relational database of my research? Thankfully, I have two database experts on hand. My [...]

The past few weeks have been an excruciating battle against my attention span, as I have attempted to hand in several really important pieces of work for my university course. However, with that hand in comes the period where I can actually readjust and get back to work. And I kind of think that there [...]

I’m working on a series of portraits of people playing computer games. There are several problems with this – getting the picture right, getting people to play the game, etc – but I’ve nearly worked out all the kinks. I’m not entirely sure where this goes though, but I’ve drawn up a plan and I [...]