Posted in Cultural, Poetry/Lyrics, The Main Thread, Video on Aug 11th, 2007 No Comments »
It would be very rare that I’d find something on Jim Lehrer’s NewsHour which I would feel like passing on… So, there you go, the old cliche holds… “there’s a first time for everything”. The piece is about poet, Alberto Rios. And I particularly like these from ‘Words over Water’, a ‘Poems of Public Purpose’ [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, The Main Thread, Video on Jul 28th, 2007 No Comments »
Paper cut… Starry Starry Night… Movie, .mov, 47M, original article Gang Gang… © Himadhu, Flickr, Canberra Area Birds Pool Original Foo?… © The Fitzwilliam Museum. In reference to…
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, The Main Thread, Video on Jul 10th, 2007 No Comments »
Connected-ness appears to be the theme of the month… Well, for I and Me anyway :) The blog title, by the way, is straight rip from Beatles anthology The whole thing meddled (or was that muddled) together over the past week. And it’s kind of a follow-on to my previous posts but it came full [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, The Main Thread, Video on Jul 5th, 2007 1 Comment »
Thanks Andrew for a connected (well, to me anyway) inspiration to todays post … Andrew pointed me to a video over on TED where Dan Dennett gives us his ‘bumper sticker’ when asked (as a philosopher) ‘what the meaning of life is’ as … The secret to happiness: Find something more important than you are [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Video on Jun 29th, 2007 No Comments »
Toilets come to mind… don’t ask me why, but, this is potpourri after all… I truly thought that one of the few places left in the world where you had to pay to go was London’s Kings Cross Station. But no, and you can imagine my surprise, to have to pay to go in Cambridge! [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Cultural, SecondLife, The Main Thread, Video on May 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Whilst continuing to check out the ‘Internet lanscape’ I’ve come across some more goodies… In addition to my previous post on media conversion check out IsoBuster (free & paid versions) and this tutorial if you need to convert any old VCDs to DVD. Don’t forget to keep looking up the available stuff in the audio [...]
Posted in SecondLife, Video on Sep 14th, 2006 No Comments »
The previously noted “Second Lives” short films are available via Google Video: Tim Guest Alayne Wartell Steve Millar John Palmer
Posted in SecondLife, The Main Thread, Video on Sep 12th, 2006 No Comments »
The BBC’s Breakfast program had a slot on Second Life today – you can view it online – as part of a week of featurettes on the theme ‘Where for the web?’. Live it was complemented by a (very brief, as they always are) couch side chat with the reporter, Julia George, and Justin Bovington [...]
Posted in SecondLife, Video on Aug 28th, 2006 No Comments »
Object-Name: SL_Email_HUD Region: Luna (254464, 256000) Local-Position: (85, 82, 22) I’m going to try and find all the places in “Where in SL is Artilect?” (video @ YouTube) in Second Life and record them on SL_Email _HUD as a test. Snapshot is from the Lost Gardens of Apollo. Devils Moon 57,119,251 – Here we are [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, SecondLife, Video on Aug 21st, 2006 No Comments »
I have to confess I’m a sucker for well strung together video, especially when combined with a good sound track.. Where in SL is Artilect is a killer – can do it again and again.. (the Shark scene is a classic..) Some kind soul has posted the YouTube link which queries for all the Second [...]