Recent work
The Trouble With Comics – article by me for The Literary Platform, of which I am the Managing Editor (May 2013)
Interview with me about Happenstance, Shift Run Stop, London, Making Things Fast and more on James Hogwood’s blog (May 2013)
Terminator: how worried should we be? – sign up for my new free talk at Nixon McInnes in Brighton (April 2013)
Shift Run Stop episode 66 (March 2013)
Demonstrating a GFR thermal internet receipt printer at the International Women’s Day 2013 Tech City Showcase, hosted by Poke London (March 2013)
Interview on Resonance FM’s “Little Atoms” show in which Roo and I talk about Shift Run Stop and our other projects (March 2013)
Stuff I Made slide deck for International Women’s Day Tech City Showcase (Keynote and PDF) (March 2013)
How to make friends with anyone in five minutes in Wired UK (page 1) (page 2) (April issue)
Happenstance recap video – interviewed about Happenstance, an Arts Council/Nesta/Digital R+D project I took part in (February 2013)
Hacking & hack days for the Guardian Culture Professionals blog (January 2013) (as a Caper associate)
Shift Run Stop Christmas Special (December 2012)
Article on Yahoo News about my photos of IBM cash registers (November 2012)
IBM and me – transcript and pictures of my talk for Boring 2012 (November 2012)
How We Lost The Future Video of my talk from “Improving Reality” at the Brighton Digital Festival (September 2012)
IBM tills Google Map (October 2012)
Shift Run Stop episode 64 (October 2012)
Interview with me on John Fleming’s blog (October 2012)
Quote from me in the Guardian (October 2012)
Happenstance newspaper edited by me, designed by Alex Parrott (September 2012)
A BBC BASIC Instagram simulator I’m building for the BBC Micro (September 2012)
Minotaur: the Moosical – an interactive, interspecies prison romance musical, written with Tim Warriner (September 2012)
Elspeth & Lottie’s Printer Letters – Two Victorian ladies exchanging news of their mutual acquaintances from long-running 20th Century TV shows via their GFR thermal receipt printers. Written with Tim Warriner (September 2012)
Coping With Discouragement for The Literary Platform for which I am the new Managing Editor (August 2012)
Shift Run Stop interview with Dave Gorman – (July 2012)
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I am Leila Johnston (pronounced Layla) and this is my online portfolio. I am the Managing Editor of The Literary Platform, a published author, blogger, comedy writer, journalist of interesting countercultural ideas, speaker, event inventor, newspaper editor, maker, and podcaster. I am currently (spring 2013) working on my third humour book, for this Christmas. I now live in Sheffield permanently. If you’d like me to do some work for you then please get in touch - leila@finalbullet.com.
Luise Vormittag took this nice pic of me speaking at the Monday Club in Shoreditch (Nov 2012)