ICM - Leeds Design Agency

While searching for a topic for a creative blog to add to our 9 day stint of birthday celebrations I came across an animated short appropriately named “9” by Shane Acker the award-winning director, animator and designer. This apparently is set to become a new feature length animation for release in September 09. The 11 minute short originally premiered at Sundance in 2005 and has won numerous awards.

Researching the subject on the wibbly wobbly way (www) I came across a technically more exciting animated venture, albeit a few years old now – Elephants Dream which is proclaimed as being the world’s first open movie, made entirely with free/open source software animation suite Blender under a Creative Commons license., thus allowing the movie to be remade, remixed and re-purposed with only a computer and the data on the DVD or download.

I wonder if Vint Cerf or Bob Kahn realised in the early days of the internet how it would eventually change our way of working and sharing. We have seen a whole raft of advances and innovations in what really is a very short space of time. Something you may expect to see in a lifetime now can easily happen over as little as 3-5 years, in some industries!

Who would think we would be hosting and sharing a large part of our working/social lives in the cloud (cloud computing), project management, accounts packages, office applications. They make life so much easier and accessible.

When I was nine years old in 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen created Microsoft. The First of the new hobby computers were starting to appear including Altair 8800 and the battle for Video recorder standards of VHS and Betamax started. I was, however, more interested in The Wombles.

How things have changed so fast, yet some things remain the same – still no one gives a s**ff* about litter!!