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The Mk 2 Machine in Action

The Mk 2 Magical Monstervision Machine in action capturing monsters in Lancaster.

Big thank yous to Paul Coulton and the cell of inventors in Lancaster.

Magical Monstervision Machine

I've been in communication with a cell of eccentric inventors based in a ramshackle unmarked building deep in the grounds of Lancaster University.

These inventors have built a Magical Monstervision Machine, which can be used to reveal the presence of the ancient monsters that lurk on our city streets, invisible to human eyes.

Trials are still at their earliest stages, but last week I successfully used a Magical Monstervision Machine Mark 1 to discover for the first time several monsters in their lairs.

Here are the secret blueprints of the Mark 2 Machine.

Your computer will now self-destruct in 10, 9, 8...

"we are at the stage of the invention of the television camera"

"In the development of the internet and connected, two-way media, we are at the stage of the invention of the television camera...

We have not yet created media or entertainment native to the internet. We will not for a while, it’s going to take us time."

From the blog of one of the blokes who runs the internet story company Six to Start.

I'm not sure about it being the invention of the TV camera - "birth of cinema moment" sounds cooler.

But otherwise I'd pretty much agree with that.

Which is why I've been trying to figure out  what are stories for mixed realities?

Here are some of the states of the art  so far.

"Would you buy a mixed reality narrative from these men?"

Des and Tony at the Mid Yorkshire Region Used Car Dealers Association Annual Black Tie Gala Dinner Dance and Awards Evening with the coveted Best Reconditioned Family Touring Saloon Award.

THIS TEXT IS TREASURE: Five Trees Forest wins best use of mobile technology at the Yorkshire Digital Awards #4ip

Five Trees Forest won the award for best use of mobile technology at yesterday's Yorkshire Digital Awards sponsored by 4iP.

Massive credit goes to co-creators Common Agency and Andy Sykes for doing a brilliant job and for being able to put up with my relentless and unblinking ability to ask for crazy amounts of work on stories-for-mixed-realities about invisible worlds with almost invisible budgets.

WannaWeeWee, Frisboing and Sweetish

WannaWeeWee , who lives in the London Eye, has taps for fingers and metal bucket feet. He creeps up behind small children and makes the sound of gently running water.

Frisboing , who lives in Hyde Park, lollops along on gangly legs throwing frisbees from a sack with eight arms, chased by a pack of dogs.

Sweetish , who lives in Tate Modern, is a jellyfish floating high in the turbine hall that trails long silky tentacles to steal from packets of sweets

Great memories of being down on my knees playing air guitar in a dirty rock club every friday

The life of Kookie .

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Forty three quids worth of knick-knacks from Oklahoma in Manchester to be won as treasure during this week's Five Trees Forest story.

There is some cool and not-cheap stuff in there, especially the bouncy LED dice, which I'm sneakily hoping don't get won so I can have them.

London Monster Hunt! Capture monsters by solving three fiendish riddles to reveal where they are hiding.

"Hidden in London are Monsters three
use pens, brains and texts to set them free."

And to set them free you have to solve three riddles written in very cheesy rhyming couplets.

If you solve a riddle, a monster will magically appear.

When you have collected all three monsters, get felt tips from the furry orange pencil case and draw them.

There will be treasure to be won for the fastest and the best monsters.

London Monster Hunt! will be part of Sandpit #10, next Wednesday 22nd, again at the Institute of Contemporary Art .

But I'm also going to post the riddles and the rest of the rhyme on here at 7.00pm on the 22nd so anyone who wants to can play.

The rhyming is so cheesy that it might be fun for reading aloud with children, and I'd be very grateful for any responses to that, because it is something I'm thinking of developing.

Bike-Eating Monster

Bobolink, a new monster set free in London by illustrator Edward Ward, inspired by the thieves who stole his bike saddle from outside a pub.