http://thehaar.co.uk/

Bill Duncan:

Bio and The Wee Book of Calvin (listen to the NPR review)

Andy Rice:

Visual artist...?

The Project:

(from http://thehaar.co.uk/comms/communication.html, mouse over "Information")

"Bill and Andy describe their project as: 'An ambitious, web-based environment based on an unsettling, hilarious and disorientating journey through the culture of an imagined post-fishing community.'"

Articles on the Project:

“We wanted a web-based environment for the spoken and written word, as well as music and visuals,” explains Duncan, “and we called it The Haar because it blurs the boundaries between the real, the imagined and the historical. It’s an amazing weather phenomenon that’s also very disorienting.”

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Most of what you read, hear and see may be northeast based but Duncan refutes any charges of parochialism. “It’s in the local that you find the universal,” he says. “If it’s done well, with attention to detail, then people will pick it up no matter where they’re from.” Certainly the internet has called barriers of all sorts into question, and that blurring of boundaries has been put to clever, artistic effect by Duncan and Rice. Go on, take a chance and venture in the haar. Just be sure to expect the unexpected.

From http://www.sundayherald.com/41626

See also http://www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/latestnews/1000402.aspx and http://www.laurahird.com/newreview/weebookofcalvin.html

My Project

Digital Calvinism - Preliminary Thoughts