It has been a hectic month. I’ve just started a Masters of Public Health which should be called a Masters of Heart Palpitations Because of All the Assignments! Today was the first day I could kind of relax, knocking back small wins for work, homework, wireframes for FlavourCrusader and the Facebook change to timeline.
2012 is Year of the Farmer, but let’s also make it the Year of the Gardener, the Real Food Cook and the Conscious Shopper. Because eating is an agricultural act. We are a part of the food system; let’s make it what we want it to be.
We’re making it. James has started programming the prototype and I receive photos of his progress. It’s all very exciting! This is FlavourCrusader Version Superdooper FTW. Well I think it is. This ain’t no seasonal app. I realised… the answer is within you. Let’s see if we can pollinate your behaviour. I can’t wait for [...]
I’ve added another social network to the mix. Facebook. Heard of it? Me neither, but I’m going to post the best food links there and figure the rest as I go along. How’s that for social media strategy?! Come over, please say hi and like FlavourCrusader! cc photo by stevendepolo
Inspired by my strawberry experience, I leapt into the abyss of this social innovation thing. How hard can it be? Follow my journey as I document the steps to make FlavourCrusader happen. I’m blogging at OpenIDEO; here’s my first post on lessons learned—on making a dream reality. CC photo by leahleaf
I walked down Oxford Street yesterday and reminisced about the street characters we used to see. I remembered today, these few paragraphs I wrote four years ago:
On advice garnered from Martyn Ware (The Human League, Heaven 17, Future of Sound and Illustrious Company) at XMediaLab, I have worked on a manifesto of sorts. Not just any manifesto, he said “You can be bolshie about it!”
I saw Jiro Dreams of Sushi yesterday at the Sydney Film Festival.
I remember designing my first food site in 2001, called ‘richapplefool’. The visual design and interaction was successful to me, if it made me laugh.
FlavourCrusader was one of 16 projects chosen to be workshopped in the 2011 XMediaLab by a raft of local and international mentors. Another workshop? Yes, I know…