From morning to night this is what one day in the future could look like. 

The London Chatter - My London Style

Here is my write up for the lovely blogger - The London Chatter

For those of you that have overdosed on Instagram recently I say try Cinemagr.am and animate your photos (and clearly Adrian Grenier agrees with me).

I’m making a special Jubilee mix tape - full of Quintessentially British tunes. If you hav request then let me know on Twitter @izzyfied 

I’m making a special Jubilee mix tape - full of Quintessentially British tunes. If you hav request then let me know on Twitter @izzyfied 

At last month’s Apocalypstick (my monthly music night), I caught up with Fores to discuss issues affecting young people for MTV Voices. 

The story behind the invisible bike helmet

In Sweden in 2005 a new law was introduced requiring cyclists under the age of 15 to wear helmet when riding a bike. The thoughts at the time where that a similar law would follow for adults and as a response to public’s concern on the matter Swedish designers Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin began work on the immense piece you see above in the photograph. When researching for the project they found out that if they made a helmet that was invisible then adult urban cyclists would be more likely to wear it. With that challenge in mind they made a fabric collar containing a built-in air bag designed to inflate around the cyclists head on impact. I cycle a lot in London (bright pink Pashley - in case your wondering) and would definitely replace this with my current very unfashionable and oversized helmet. The Invisible Helmet  has replaceable fabric shells and it can be changed depending on the weather.. or your style. I am in tech-o-love with this, its been a 7 year journey for the designers and it is sure to be the bike helmet of the future. Now I just wonder when a robot will be riding my bike. 

A few weeks ago I caught up with Singtank, that is brother and sister duo Alexandre and Josephine de la Baume, before their shoot for boutique website FarFetch.com . Their debut album In Wonder will be released in the UK on 23rd July. This video was shot on the 8mm app on my phone : )

@fore playing to the crowd at my night #ApocHawley for @mtvstayingalive @mtvvoices (Taken with instagram)

@fore playing to the crowd at my night #ApocHawley for @mtvstayingalive @mtvvoices (Taken with instagram)

Here is my Guest Edit for The Beach Tomato Shack : )

Here is my Guest Edit for The Beach Tomato Shack : )

I frequently talk about my favourite apps and I’m fed up with being an arm chair pundit, I should learn to code. So I signed up for Decoded, which promised to teach me coding in a day. Perfect - I have a short attention span, not much time and if successful, it would give me the chance to develop my “takeover the world” secret project. In the world of tech, development moves so fast that everyone is constantly having to reeducate themselves, not least advertising gurus and captains of industry, who at least have to pretend they know what they’re talking about. So I was in good company and most people were learning from scratch. Into the magic circle - suddenly all the coding secrets were being unveiled - and hey, guess what? Its not rocket science. By the end of the day, I had learnt the principals of coding and built an app with a geo locate function as well. Sure, I have just scratched the service, but I reckon I now know just enough to give my secret project a road test. At the end I stayed chatting to the Decoded team and discussed the importance of learning coding - all the team are true believers. In the post-Zuckerberg world it is so important that children in schools are given the chance to learn how to code - something that was unavailable to almost anyone born before 1995. In school you are given an understanding of how the world works; that now includes coding. SUM functions on Excel and mail merge in Word just don’t cut it any more. I attended Decoded: http://decoded.co/

I frequently talk about my favourite apps and I’m fed up with being an arm chair pundit, I should learn to code. So I signed up for Decoded, which promised to teach me coding in a day. Perfect - I have a short attention span, not much time and if successful, it would give me the chance to develop my “takeover the world” secret project.

In the world of tech, development moves so fast that everyone is constantly having to reeducate themselves, not least advertising gurus and captains of industry, who at least have to pretend they know what they’re talking about. So I was in good company and most people were learning from scratch.

Into the magic circle - suddenly all the coding secrets were being unveiled - and hey, guess what? Its not rocket science.

By the end of the day, I had learnt the principals of coding and built an app with a geo locate function as well. Sure, I have just scratched the service, but I reckon I now know just enough to give my secret project a road test.

At the end I stayed chatting to the Decoded team and discussed the importance of learning coding - all the team are true believers.

In the post-Zuckerberg world it is so important that children in schools are given the chance to learn how to code - something that was unavailable to almost anyone born before 1995. In school you are given an understanding of how the world works; that now includes coding. SUM functions on Excel and mail merge in Word just don’t cut it any more.

I attended Decoded: http://decoded.co/

Love this use of a Kinect camera to allow 3D interaction. It reminds me of fairground mirrors. 

The piece is a collaboration between Helicar & Lewis and Todd Vanderlin  

Thanks to my friend Joe for playing this track last night. SBTRKT rules, so cool he doesnt need any vowels.

Future DJing right here.

Izzmo Gizmo - Soundtracking  This week’s Izzmo Gizmo goes to Soundtracking. There are lots of apps for music (just like there were lots of apps for photo-sharing before Instagram) but the reason that Soundtracking wins (the highly prestigious imaginary award of) Izzmo Gizmo is because its focuses on people sharing their experience with music rather than purchasing or consuming an irreverent universe of music. In the same way I would make mix tapes for my best friends when I was at school, Soundtracking is very calculated and conscious and .. in a way romantic. I like that you you take a photo of the place you are in that moment and the relevant song, its so intimate - especially when Snoop Dog is on their posting on valentines day! I met one of the founders at a tech conference I am currently at in Monterey called MLove. I love the fact that he has had over ten years in the music business as a manager and then wanted to make sure music in the digital world didn’t loose its soul, also any one that can get Snoop Dog to freely and authentically use their app gets a medal. http://soundtracking.com/

Izzmo Gizmo - Soundtracking 

This week’s Izzmo Gizmo goes to Soundtracking. There are lots of apps for music (just like there were lots of apps for photo-sharing before Instagram) but the reason that Soundtracking wins (the highly prestigious imaginary award of) Izzmo Gizmo is because its focuses on people sharing their experience with music rather than purchasing or consuming an irreverent universe of music. In the same way I would make mix tapes for my best friends when I was at school, Soundtracking is very calculated and conscious and .. in a way romantic. I like that you you take a photo of the place you are in that moment and the relevant song, its so intimate - especially when Snoop Dog is on their posting on valentines day! I met one of the founders at a tech conference I am currently at in Monterey called MLove. I love the fact that he has had over ten years in the music business as a manager and then wanted to make sure music in the digital world didn’t loose its soul, also any one that can get Snoop Dog to freely and authentically use their app gets a medal.

http://soundtracking.com/

My little interview with Fame Factor