Hands is for… our Gray projects
Alasdair Gray was always ready to lend a hand. And his hands were always busy. These are our own creative projects. And if you believe we make things better together… reach out a hand!
Share your skills…
If anything we’re doing sparks your own imagination… get in touch!
Reconstructing A Gray’s place…
When we put out a call for help with our Alasdair Gray’s place reconstruction project, some brilliant creatives offered their support.
Stornaway.io
Stornaway.io have let us use their amazing interactive video storytelling software for free. It’s addictively fun and easy to use and is already leading us out of Gray’s place and into other experiences. To enjoy our interactive experience including 360 video of A Gray’s place…
Ryan Tympany
xR designer Ryan Tympany also came forward to help us look at ways to use the pointcloud and photogrammetry datasets and is currently doing amazing things in Spatial that we’re looking forward to sharing as they develop. He’s also having fun rendering Alasdair’s living room with Gaussian Splatting...
Andy Baker
Immersive expert Andy Baker was incredibly generous with his time when we first started exploring the possibilities of web VR. He’s always happy to share his skills and expertise and he created our early pointcloud version of A Gray’s place in the Potree viewer…
Michael Danks
Michael Danks was the first person to answer our call for help, way back when A Gray Space only existed in our minds eye. He helped us start to navigate the complex world of immersive options and web VR and created a virtual version of Alasdair’s bedroom as a Mozilla hub...
Collecting inked art…
Kat started collecting and sharing Alasdair Gray tattoos in 2018 on Instagram @AlasdairGrayTattoo. This ongoing project is now part of our DNA as the handing on of ideas from one creative to another is the essence of A Gray Space. And every Alasdair Gray tattoo tells a story.
Explore our Inked art gallery
Explore our Inked art stories
Recording Alasdair Gray rereads…
In what turned out to be the last year of Alasdair’s life Kat made a series of recordings with him that she later shared as a series of 30 podcasts.
Find out more about the story behind them in Conversational inspiration.
Hear Alasdair reading excerpts from his own books and other favourites on our YouTube channel.
Creating interactive experiences…
Stornaway’s brilliant interactive storytelling software is perfect for all sorts of projects!
Play the video to compare Petra Pugar’s Croatian version of Galloping from 1982, Janine with Alasdair’s own reading.
Find out more about the challenge of translating Alasdair Gray in Courageous conversations.