It is sometimes shocking to sit and think how quickly technology has come on in just a few short years. Photography is something I have always enjoyed, being brought up on Dad’s slides and even his own attempts to create a dark room in the attic. I remember my first Kodak camera with its stacked, [...]
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Kodak: harking back to a golden – or rather silvered – era
Posted in culture, history, science, tech, tagged culture, film, history, kodak, tech, technology, the light farm on January 5, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Lego lunacy
Posted in arts, entertainment, film, tagged animation, arts, film, lego on November 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
A friend’s Facebook update reminded me how much I used to love Lego® as a kid. Lego was kept in a special box (and, latterly, when I needed additional storage, an old Quality Street tin). It was a green-coloured wooden box that Granddad had made specially, with brass hinges and brass hooks, and numerous internal [...]
Logs, spandex and the geo-politics of Rocky IV
Posted in arts, culture, film, international, politics, popular culture, tagged film, popular culture, rocky iv, stallone on November 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
We had a delivery of logs this morning and, singledom introducing a whole new desire to shape up and get fit, I stuck my headphones on – Whitesnake, Alice Cooper and Biffy Clyro - and threw myself into the log heap. As I worked up a sweat, stacking them against the side of the house, [...]
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly – A tribute to Ennio Morricone
Posted in arts, film, music, tagged arts, film, music, westerns on October 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One of my favourite films, The Good, The Bad And The Ugly is one of those timeless Westerns I can watch again and again. The third in the Dollar Trilogy, it’s currently rated fourth on the Internet Movie Database in its poll of users’ top 250 films. I can’t believe that doesn’t have at least [...]
Lego goes loco… Russian-style #lego
Posted in arts, entertainment, film, gaming, internet, popular culture, tagged animation, computers, film, gaming, lego, me, team fortress, toys on March 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Lego was always a favourite toy. Spaceships, towns, castles… But I never got quite as creative as the Russian who has mixed Lego with the online game Team Fortress 2 and stop-motion animation to create an ultra-violent tribute to one of gaming’s most popular online shooters. As a gamer, a film enthusiast and a Lego [...]
Solomon Kane – an amateur’s faux pas
Posted in arts, comment, personal, tagged fantasy, film, review, solomon kane on February 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
If you are going to get picked up for amateurish over-enthusiasm, best that you get picked up by the experts. Alexander Harron, a regular contributor to the fantasy blog The Cimmerian, has pointed out that I’ve read a little too much back to the original Solomon Kane from Michael J. Bassett‘s film interpretation. It’s a [...]
Movie magic: Solomon Kane, Precious and Born of Hope (again!)
Posted in arts, film, personal, review, tagged born of hope, film, me, precious, review, solomon kane on February 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Between work, casework, Council meetings and campaigning, Em and I like to pretend that we can do normal things. Occasionally, this means doing something wild like going to the cinema at Bas Vegas (yes, there is a place – and to prove it, Jedward came). We benefit in Basildon from a luxury 12 screen Empire [...]
“Born of Hope”: Amateur movie-making magic that needs to be seen! Really! #lotr #bornofhope
Posted in arts, film, personal, review, tagged arts, born of hope, film, me on February 13, 2010 | 4 Comments »
“Every time I go to a movie, it’s magic, no matter what the movie’s about…” So said Stephen Spielberg, and if anyone should know about the magic of cinema it is Spielberg. From Raiders of the Lost Ark to E.T. to Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan, Spielberg has made some of the most memorable [...]
A Mike Leigh gem – going “Nuts in May”
Posted in arts, film, personal, television, tagged arts, film, me, television on January 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve just spent a very happy hour and a bit slumped on a sofa in front of a roaring fire, Em on one side, a mug of tea on the other – and “Nuts in May” by Mike Leigh on the television. As with all his films, it is a perfect study of the quirks [...]
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Music video madness with OK Go
Posted in arts, comment, film, music, tagged arts, film, music, ok go on March 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Music videos are close to an art form in themselves, mixing very different media to startling and stunning effect. The band OK Go have had some fun with their latest for their song “This Too Shall Pass” and I thought it worth sharing here, in case you’ve not picked up on it elsewhere. If you [...]
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