All About Bloomsday Halifax 2024
Nov 22, 2024 15:34

I recently adapted my location-based mobile multimedia platform NowHere to bring James Joyce's "Ulysses" to life in Halifax. I've written a whole lot of posts about this project on my personal blog site. Here they all are in one place for easy reference:

• Bloomsday Halifax 2024 - a general introduction to the project.
• 1. Telemachus at the Martello featuring how I approached the different episodes and locations.
• 2. Nestor at Point Pleasant Lodge featuring the back-end Ruby on Rails CMS.
• 3. Proteus at Black Rock Beach featuring virtual collectibles.
• 4. Calypso in Schmidtville featuring physical collectibles.
• 5. Lotus Eaters on Spring Garden featuring enthusiastic venue participation.
• A digression on Plumtree
• 6. Hades at Holy Cross Cemetery featuring the app version of "Brigadoon".
• 7. Aeolus at the Nova Centre featuring long-gone buildings and unsuccessful outreach.
• 8. Lestrygonians at Durty Nellys featuring food tie-ins. Also: U.P. UP.
• 9. Scylla and Charybdis at the Central Library featuring a live lecture with slides and Ann(e) Hathaway gags.
• 10. Wandering Rocks in Downtown Halifax featuring parallel architecture.
• 11. Sirens at the Old Triangle featuring custom-printed beer foam.
• 12. Cyclops at Stillwell featuring a way too ambitious physical collectible.
• 13. Nausicaa at Salter featuring a non-creepy peep show.
• 14. Oxen of the Sun at the Brown Hound.
featuring similar street names and an appropriate seafood special.
• 15. Circe on Gottingen featuring custom hallucinogenic AI-generated pictures for every participant.
• 16. Eumaeus at Freeman's featuring a location I forgot to warn about the event but things worked out anyhow.
• 17. Ithaca on Jubilee featuring the world's most tiresome and useless AI chatbot.
• 18. Penelope featuring a custom LLM-generated stream-of-consciousnes narration for every participant's day, narrated by Molly Bloom herself.