This is me, aged 12, getting BASIC on a BBC Micro to control the lights, curtain and flash on a model theatre I'd made.
It reveals my two often conflicting passions: technology and storytelling.
At 17, with a group of friends, we put on the premiere of the Poet Laurette Simon Armitage's first play, Eclipse.
On a tiny budget we had live video and rear projection, and toured to the Edinburgh Festival (getting four stars in the Scotsman!).
At 20, at the peak of the dotcom bubble, inspired by famous entreprenerd dropouts and promises from VCs, Tom Fogg and I quit university to run Netribution.co.uk full time.
We thought watching film on the web was going to be big, although everyone had 28kbps modems and two weeks after we quit, the dotcom crash happened.
In 2004 in a group including long-term collaborator Francis Morgan-Giles, I started organising AV parties where we remixed video and audio live.
We were asked by Hewlett Packard to run the launch party for their Cannes Gold Lion-winning HyPe Gallery.
Over the noughties I wrote a book on Digital Asset Management 
and made documentaries on Fish 
and UK Hip Hop 
with Tom Fogg. I wrote and directed a short film, Creation 
and co-wrote three books on Film Finance, self-publishing the second two 
and selling 11,000 copies between them. I interviewed Ewan MacGregor 
for a documentary about theatre in education. I co-produced Government-funded community 'living cinema' 
events with music, films, food and live visuals – and developed 
the Big Open Playlister to help venues manage video playlists across multiple screens. This led into the Virtuous Circle
with the Scottish Documentary Institute to produce an open toolset for indie film producers.
Following the loss of my sister and a friend in 2010, less happened in the last decade.
I've writen about Coops and Open Source, made a mashup about gender inequality 
for Bono's charity and been a part of the 
community (an open source CRM for non-profits used by Wikipedia, EFF & 1000s more).
Filmmaking
work includes
Subway Sun
Agender: Inequality
Watch This!
Theatre in Education, following Glasgow's Tag Theatre as it stages a The Visit at Dalbeatie High School, with interviews across Scottish culture.
Brit Hip Hop
Includes Task Force, Rodney P, DJ Skitz, Fallacy, Tim Westwood, Dobie, Surgical Cuts, DJ Plus One, DJ Blood one, Natty, Dwella & Tempa.
Fish
Over the Wall
Fragile Cakes
Living Cinema
An experiment in live-generated, MIDI & Wii-mote controlled cinematic visuals, with 4:1 aspect ratio – performed in Kirdbrooke and Newcastle.
This is ClipHop!
60 Films in 60 Minutes
Self Evident
Nancy
Here's to the Crazy Ones
Websites
Netribution, left in 2001, was praised for it's design ("admirably spare and fresh" – The Guardian), so since it first closed I've made websites for charities and people I know, using Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress – including:
Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation – Codes of Conduct; via Northbridge, design, concept & Drupal build; Transition Lab Earth, branding, web design & Wordpress build; AWAZ: Equality Cumbria, design & Drupal build; Diabetes Care Trust, via Red Hot Irons, design & Drupal build; Lung Cancer Nursing UK (formerly National Lung Cancer Forum For Nurses), via Red Hot Irons, web design, theme building and implementation, Drupal 7, UIKit; Jonathan J Halperin & The Marcus Foundation, Drupal support; MJW Consulting, design, build & implementation, Wordpress, UIKit; Ruza Solutions, design, build & implementation, Wordpress; CiviCRM LLC, web design, strategy & community/event engagement; Second Chance Humane Society, via Peakmedia, Joomla, UIKit, build & design; Rob Manning Composer: Wordpress custom design and build; Drupal theme implementer in a large distributed team on major charity website relaunches for the American Immune Deficiency Foundation: for Back Office Thinking, Drupal co-build; Hillwood House and Gardens: for Back Office Thinking, Drupal co-build; CiviCon London: Drupal design & build; Shishukunj: Drupal implementation & build; Dead Donkeys: Wordpress theme build & Nation Builder integration; Maja Borg: Wordpress build; Tigers Milk Records: Wordpress desgin & build; Aug 2013; Scottish Documentary Institute: Future My Love: Joomla design, build & Nation Builder integration; Person-Centred Therapy Scotland, Joomla design, builid, CiviCRM & migration; Eelyn Lee Productions, Joomla design & build; British Association for the Person Centred Approach: Joomla design, build & CiviCRM integration; Arts Beyond the Classroom: Joomla design & build; World Association for Person Centred Psychotherapy: Joomla design, build & CiviCRM integration; Re-Production: Wordpress logo, design & build; Teaching Citizenship: for Circle Interactive, Drupal; Ability Net: for Circle Interactive, Drupal, accessibility; Othona: for Circle, Drupal design & build; Praxis Unico: for Circle, Drupal design & build; Green Party Members site: for Circle, Drupal design & build; BT Accessibility site: for Circle, WordPress design & build; International Agency for Prevention of Blindness: for Circle, Drupal design & dev; Racial Equality Foundation: for Circle, Drupal design & build, The Technology Trust: for Circle, Drupal design & build; Circle Interactive: Design, Drupal theme; Clifton Suspension Bridge: design: for Circle, Drupal design & build; Freshfields Accessibility site: for Circle, Wordpress design & build; NHS Healthwatch: for Circle, WordPress theme & CiviCRM dev; Green Register: for Circle, Drupal build.
