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I just spent an afternoon digital gardening my blog. Things like: Fixing old broken links Moving videos from old broken social media platforms (e.g. MySpace) to new platforms that can still be watched (e.g. Vimeo) Updating with new information that has come to light – like that Guy Burnett who was in short films I worked on , is now a movie star Removing defunct technology and moving over to other…
Email to Fergal (not his real name): Hi Fergal, I’ve been meaning to say to you, the last [Virtual Reality Health App Project] meeting went really well… I loved that we followed a co-creation process where everyone contributed and lots of post-it notes were involved. I loved that it was a cross-functional team (I’ve italicised tech industry/academia buzz words I’ve used in this email to indicate…
‘You computer geeks are all the same’ my girlfriend said. ‘You get really excited about things at the start, and then lose interest really quickly.’ Option: Listen (instead of read) this blog post – I gave it as a talk at Codebar Festival Fringe London , March 2026. I’d told her that you, Dear Alvin my coding coaching student, hadn’t completed your personal homepage website, and were now talking…
London Tech Day is like London Tech Week, but shorter. Despite this it’s a pretty good day out. Billed as a day for start-up companies, the day to me represents everything that’s good and bad about the technology start-ups scene. A guy in a suit stood on stage and told us about his new company that uses electrical simulation to treat pain, and is controlled through an app. ‘Sounds like a good…
He is more likely to tell you your account pays ‘two parts of bugger-all’ than UK’s Money Saving Expert . But Australia’s Barefoot Investor is a similar money guru, minus the shoes or tact. The UK’s Money Saving Expert on the other hand, pops up from time to time on the morning ITV telly couch, and was the boss of a woman I speed-dated once. The woman and I didn’t end up dating, but I did get five…
Hello ! 👋 I'm Louie Christie and I live in London. This is a blog about my creative and technology projects and associated rantings. I’m an adventurous, tech geek, and alternative comedian in my own head. This blog was created around 2008, when I was a young, enthusiastic, gloriously naive graduate spending my time travelling, studying, and making creative projects in technology and media. At…
After buying my first flat, (a London flat is like a US apartment, but smaller, and more expensive) and frantically developing websites and apps for a failing (now failed) technology start-up company, I was made redundant. I suddenly had some free time to work on my own software project, buy some furniture, blog, and stop living like some cross between Mark Zuckerberg and Renton from Trainspotting…
If you were to start react all over again what would you do? This was a text sent to me by Alvin (not his real name) a software tester, wannabie junior software developer, who has studied the basics of coding including HTML, CSS and Javascript. If you don’t know what that sentence means, probably stop reading now. This post is going to get technical. I’m aiming this blog post at Alvin, so if that…
Introducing the Raspberry Pi, a computer the size of a deck of cards, cheap enough at £40 to give away to children and designed to help with teaching programming. I grew up playing around on a ZX Spectrum computer at home and a BBC Micro at school. I remember programming the computers using the BASIC programming language and at aged ten writing a BASIC program as part of a school history project.…
Update 2025: This website from 2014 was used for a number of years before the charity stopped using it. Link to an archived version of the website from 2014. Working for a charity in north London I made a website for their catering service. I used the technology WordPress to build the site so that the community group could easily log in and update the site. I attended meetings with the community…
What’s the latest tool to hit web development? Bluetac. It might sound surprising but bluetac, scissors, post-it notes and a giant white board are the latest thing. Cut-and-paste. Literally. Web development is expensive. Bluetac and paper are cheap. It’s painful when you have to redesign a site because the customer has forgotten something. Worse if it was your fault. So why not make it easier for…
Watch Elephant Boy on filmaka.com (3 mins) I just discovered that this short film I worked on has won the first round of a filmaka.com competition. Instead of the usual working behind the scenes I was in front of the camera on this one. We had a story outline but no script. We improvised the film using Meisner and Impulse Company techniques. Some people have made kind comments about my apparently…
Working on a health education DVD project, armed with DVD Studio Pro, I set out to create a reasonably user friendly DVD menu. DVD menus are often built to be flashy and innovative. Unfortunately this is usually at the expense of usability. DVD menus are inherently unresponsive because each menu must be loaded as a video from the disc individually. Manufacturers disagree on which buttons to put on…
In 2008 my brother entered an online film making competition and I helped out. We didn’t win, but we had a bloody good laugh making a series of comedy videos for the web. Watch my trailer for the Christie Series on Filmaka.com (3mins) I edited this trailer for the Christie internet comedy series using Final Cut Pro. I think it stands up pretty well alongside an official trailer made by a…
Watch my behind the scenes documentary of the Christie (2008) internet comedy video series (7mins) on filmaka.com here In 2008 I was backpacking in Canada about to head home. On the phone my brother told me him and some friends had won the first round of an online film making competition. They’d been awarded some budget to make a series and did I want to help out? So started one of the crazier…
Watch a funny compilation of bloopers and outtakes from the Christie comedy series (2 mins). I co-edited this video alongside Alec Christie and I filmed the interview section. On set Alec would often improvise funny lines to try to get Guy Burnet to laugh (Craig from Hollyoaks, and now a film star). The out-takes were so funny we put them into this compilation. The interviewee in this clip is the…
This was a university computer 3D animation project back in 2001. The brief was to create a toy advert. I chose to spoof the Hot Wheels toy cars and create a toy car chase loosely influenced my the movie ‘The Italian Job’. The toy car chase takes place on a dining room table via household objects like a book, kitchen roll and a ruler. The video was created using Houdini for 3D animation and Adobe…
http://www.kayakproductions.com web design. a) Before b) After I web designed the www.kayakproductions.com (Update: this website from 2008 no longer exists.) website using Dreamweaver, Photoshop, HTML and CSS. In the process I make it more user friendly and google friendly. As a result it shot up the Google rankings and received a boost in visitors. The original site was in a strong red with an…
I have a masters degree (MSc) in making computers user friendly. This is a video I made demonstrating my masters degree project (3 mins). Multi Dance, 2006 The project was a video game called Multi Dance that teaches children multiplication tables. It was designed to be foot controlled using a dance mat. The idea was to use technology and exercise to make learning fun. Maybe I was on to something…
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