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Mon, 8 Feb 2010 17:36:11 +0000

Adam Buxton reads the reviews of The Persuasionists!

Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:23:09 +0000

‘I’ll Chop Your Head Off’!

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:58:28 +0000

This is great! Written by a 5yr old (Malachai Nicolle) and illustrated by his 29yr old brother (Ethan Nicolle), this police story captures the crazy random thoughts we have as a kid. The story continues here....>

The Winter Olympics

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:11:10 +0000

New animated film from director Marc Craste to publicise the Winter Olympics on the BBC. Wow!

Logorama by H5

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:16:19 +0000

A glimpse of the future? For more info click here

24 hours, Pavey Ark

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:16:09 +0000

Wonderful film. (via Creative Review)

24 hours, Pavey Ark from Michael Moloney Studio

‘In the catalogue for the If You Could Collaborate show, director Michael Moloney and photographer John Hooper discuss their piece, filmed over 24 hours on a hill in the Great Langdale area of the Lake District in Cumbria in the north west of England.

"We shot continuously for 24 hours with the camera rotating twice through 360º, coming away with over 5,000 photographs," says Moloney.
The pair were keen to introduce a series of man-made elements into the film, and so added various lighting effects that gradually reach a crescendo during the night shoot.

Hooper explains that they used "camera flashes to give us a controlled, brighter light source with minimal power supply. For us to achieve a film through 720º, we needed a very precise motor to turn the camera in increments of 0.16º – this would give us 4,500 increments at 25 frames per second and we would end up with a three minute film."

Hooper then contacted Marc Kairies of MK Panorama Systeme, who agreed to hire such a motor to the filmmakers. But how to power the thing, 2,500ft up a mountain?

Well, they borrowed a generator from a friend at Honda magazine and lugged it up the hill with the help of some locals. How collaborative is that?
"Once the sun went down, we ran up and down the mountain for the next 14 hours setting off the flashes to a script devised by Mike based on a future music score of 96bpm, " says Hooper. The score itself was eventually composed by Tim Phillips.

And the outcome?
"I'd only a vague idea of how the final film might look," says Moloney, "and for me, that was the most exciting thing about the project – not really knowing if it would work until we put all the individual photographs together."

24 hours, Pavey Ark is on show at If You Could Collaborate – which runs from 15-24 January at the A Foundation Gallery at the Rochelle School, London E2 7ES. The gallery is open 12-6pm and until 9pm on 21 January. More information at ifyoucould.co.uk/collaborate.’

Alone in the Shed!

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:03:16 +0000

I love Adam Buxton’s songs and sketches. Therefore, it was a real shame to see him in the steaming pile of dung that is The Persuasionists, a new BBC “comedy” set in an ad agency. The stuff Buxton does on BBC 6Music and You Tube are so much funnier . Why don’t the BBC give this guy a series? Anyway, here’s Buxton’s spoof of Channel 4’s series Alone in the Wild. As Buxton said on his website:
“Here are the 4 pieces I made for 2009 Unwrapped presented by lovely Miranda Hart, a Time Trumpet-ish review of last year that went out on BBC2 on 30th December. My Shed bits were spooves of Channel 4’s Alone In The Wild which went out in September last year. Visit the BBC Comedy website to read my hilarious accompanying blog entries now!!! Careful to tape up your sides before you do though or they might split with mirth! Seriously. Hospitals have been reporting record numbers of mirth related injuries since my blog posts went up on the BBC site. Oh wait, apparently they’ve been reporting record numbers of injuries from slipping on ice. So tape up your feet AND your sides.” Indeed.

Lego Click Film

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:38:06 +0000

I’m a big Lego fan and this film captures the spirit of Lego perfectly.

Alan Kitching Workshop

Wed, 6 Jan 2010 13:25:46 +0000

Three short films of Alan Kitching giving a workshop on letterpress printing. Wonderful stuff. Via Eye Magazine

New film on Herbert Matter

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:49:49 +0000

Here’s a sneak peek of a new film on Herbert Matter. I have yet to see this, but I was interviewed for it and may make a cameo appearance. Looking forward to its final release. (See here for more details + see here for my essay on Matter.)

Milton Glaser Draws and Lectures

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:21:23 +0000

A short video by C. Coy, filming designer Milton Glaser drawing a picture of Shakespeare while talking about the ways that drawing helps him perceive. Simple, but effective. As Glaser notes, the most convincing argument for drawing is that if you don’t allow children to draw, their minds won’t fully develop.

Further Complications - Jarvis Cocker

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:03:51 +0000

This looks like it could have been shot by Richard Avedon. The white space serves as a fitting canvas for Cocker’s bendy frame! It was directed By Stephanie Di Giusto.

Good Vibrations - The Responsibility Project

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 09:44:34 +0000

This film has a kind of gentle humour that is very appealing. According to The Creative Review it was created for ‘an initiative by US-based insurance firm Liberty Mutual that encourages us all to be a bit more responsible...

The Responsibility Project (which was created by ad agency Hill Holliday in Boston) has been running for a few years now, and is online at responsibilityproject.com. Alongside a blog tackling a number of moral questions, the site contains a number of other short films commissioned on the theme of responsibility...’ (via Creative Review)

Chris Ware’s This American Life

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:42:37 +0000

This has been around for a while, but it’s great and worth re-posting. (Via Why That’s Delightful)

Realise - My Bloody Valentine

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:47:52 +0100