Archive For The “video” Category

Tokyo in Pummelvision

By | June 26, 2011

I was recently introduced to Pummelvision – an online tool for making videos from photo collections – and used the service to make a video of some of my Flickr-held images of Tokyo. The service produces a snappy little clip with a choice of displaying…

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‘Winter In America’ – a tribute

By | June 25, 2011

I first became aware of Gil Scott-Heron around the early to mid-nineties, while I was at university, although it was a while till I actually got where he was coming from. He was often listed on posters around town as playing at something like that …

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With the lights down low (WN0036)

By | May 4, 2011

Another time-lapsed and tilt-shifted video gem here, from darwinfish105. This beautifully-crafted short film shows Tokyo, a city that drinks electrical power by the tanker load just to get up in the morning, with a collective cranking down of the dema…

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With the lights down low (WN0036)

By | May 4, 2011

Another time-lapsed and tilt-shifted video gem here, from darwinfish105. This beautifully-crafted short film shows Tokyo, a city that drinks electrical power by the tanker load just to get up in the morning, with a collective cranking down of the dema…

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Inside the Egyptian Revolution

By | April 4, 2011

Google executive Wael Ghonim was incarcerated by the Egyptian authorities during the uprisings in January and February of this year, having created a Facebook page in support of the protests. TED have wasted no time in getting him to give a talk on wh…

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Inside the Egyptian Revolution

By | April 4, 2011

Google executive Wael Ghonim was incarcerated by the Egyptian authorities during the uprisings in January and February of this year, having created a Facebook page in support of the protests. TED have wasted no time in getting him to give a talk on wh…

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RIP Captain Beefheart

By | January 9, 2011

A little more in the way of music videos + ‘things that happened in 2010′ before this year’s content begins in earnest.Seems like the past couple of months saw a great many well-known people pass away. The one that moved me enough to write about them h…

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DJ Derek (WN0034)

By | January 6, 2011

DJ Derek pt. 1 from Grand Finale on Vimeo.DJ Derek pt. 2 from Grand Finale on Vimeo.Been meaning to give this fellow an airing for months now, having stumbled across him through a comment left by Idle Format earlier last year. Finally, the moment has c…

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Winter in Brighton and Hove

By | December 31, 2010

A good thing about the end of the year is getting to clear out all the stuff you’ve been meaning to do for much of the rest of it. It’s rare to satisfactorily finish everything, but good to at least make some moves towards it. Having gotten a little mo…

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New film: ‘Makes The World Go Round’

By | October 8, 2010

What do love and sushi have in common? Well, they both kind of make things go round. They say that love does it for the world and sushi…it’s the reason for those belts drives that spend their working days in perpetual motion, serving up fish and r…

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