Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Cultural, Video on Sep 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Great news story on BBC today - 12 year old mare who apparently had, for the last couple of years, been having a pint of John Smith’s and a packet of pickled onion crisps (only in the UK :P) with her owner in a Jarrow pub has been ‘banned’ - well the bar has just [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Technology, Video on Aug 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Acronyms are going to be your ’stock and trade’ if you want to understand the digital video space…
This is going to be my 3 (5?, 15? :-P) minute guide to various tasks I generally need and the software (some free) one needs to do them…
OK, rushing right along…
If you have:
an original DVD you want to [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, England, Poetry/Lyrics, Video on Jan 19th, 2008 No Comments »
In loving memory, for Tony… from his service…
Leonard Cohen songs…
Sisters of Mercy
lyrics and an amazing number of covers…
Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye
lyrics and, again, some nice covers…
Viva la Jersey! Viva la Holland!
Posted in Cultural, Poetry/Lyrics, The Main Thread, Video on Oct 24th, 2007 No Comments »
This is the most awesome piece of video art I have ever seen. In two parts.
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Canberra, Cultural, The Main Thread, Video on Oct 1st, 2007 No Comments »
And, while we are on ‘personal knowledge‘, its nice to see the young people of Canberra expressing themselves thoughtfully through their creativity.
‘Better Moments’ …
a good song by Nat and Julz…
and a nice video by 17 year old Andrew Babington.
I was led here by the Lights! Canberra! Action! filmmaking festival - which I bumped into whilst [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Cultural, The Main Thread, Video on Sep 26th, 2007 No Comments »
If you’ve ever thought about life…
Maybe you were thinking too hard…
This is another brilliant Australian short film…
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Cultural, The Main Thread, Video on Sep 8th, 2007 No Comments »
An outstretched hand, upward, fingers and thumb flat, still.
Resting on the palm, wings slowly beating, are two butterflies - one fluorescent white, the other a shimmering black.
The hand gently curls closed, safely cocooning the inhabitants.
Upon re-opening there appears, not two butterflies but, a silvery grey, slowly rotating, cube.
It rises, and as it does, morphs, digitally, [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Cultural, The Main Thread, Video on Aug 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Painting? Music? Dance?
I don’t know, and I’m certainly not going to be so pretentious as to actually attempt to answer my rhetorical title…
Personally, however, creative things which ‘touch me’ make me wonder, a lot, about the amazing people who are the creators. The awe, on a personal level, is about how did that person, or [...]
Posted in Cultural, SocioPolitical, The Main Thread, Video on Aug 18th, 2007 No Comments »
As self-expression migrates to, or maybe more accurately continues on, the Internet, it will be interesting to watch as new phenomena arise.
I blog and I still think it’s pretty weird - all these people, including myself, writing ‘into the ether’, audiences ranging from no-one to the 1000’s, topics covered from the absolute trivial to the [...]
Posted in Cultural, SocioPolitical, The Main Thread, Video on Aug 18th, 2007 No Comments »
Thought for the thinking..
“An Atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor, or Bayal, or the Golden Calf.
As has been said before, we are all atheists about most of the Gods that humanity has ever believed in.
Some of us just go one God further…”
Richard Dawkins, 2002 TED [...]