For 6 weeks, give or take, I haven’t been working. The contract that I had, for one reason or another, came to an unexpectedly early end and there has been nothing that suits my income-earning skillset available since then.
I am another statistic on the list of victims of these trying economic times.
My skills are [...]
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Another Turn of the Screw
Genealogy
My aunt has done a lot of work researching the family tree on my dad’s side. When I got married she gave me a framed print out of my direct lineage which went all the way back to the 16th/17th century. (Apparently, my mother’s family tree goes all the way back to the 13th [...]
Gone Fishing Seminar: The Short Films
Some thoughts about the 6 films we saw during the Gone Fishing seminar last week, starting with the obvious.
Gone Fishing
Gone Fishing is, in all honesty, a very good film and I really am not just saying that because it was the focus of the seminar or because Chris Jones is a nice guy. I hadn’t [...]
I Love Sarah-Jane
Just to prove that I’m not a totally miserable bastard, here’s a short film about zombies which is, in my ever so humble opinion, totally fucking awesome. This is a director to keep an eye on.
Watch it here
God-Emperor of City 17
I’ve been holding back from writing this post for a couple of weeks.
If you pick through the fetid archives of this blog, you’ll find circumstantial evidence that I am a big fan of the Half-Life series of games produced by Valve Software. Recently a short film got released onto the intertubes called “Escape From City [...]
Leap of faith
I’ve just accepted a new contract in London and am now shitting myself about whether it’s the right decision or not.
Gone Fishing Seminar: Film Festivals
On Friday morning I signed up for the online version of the Gone Fishing seminar. An hour or so later, I got an email from Chris Jones asking if I was coming to the follow up seminar at Ealing Studios the next day. I declined at first because Saturday already involved other plans but a [...]
I’m confused – who owns my data?
Just a quick one.
The recent furore regarding Facebook’s ever changing TOS and whether or not they own data you upload to that site coupled with shocked outcry about the story regarding last.fm’s alleged handing over of user listening data to RIAA has got me thinking. All this happened in the same week as much publicised [...]
The Future (Onwards and Upwards)
An extremely exhausting, unexpectedly film related weekend.
After going to the IMAX to see a midnight screening of Blade Runner and subsequenly getting about four hours sleep, I spent Saturday at Ealing Studios attending the second Gone Fishing Masterclass seminar given by Chris Jones (author of “Guerilla Filmmaker’s Handbook”). Chris was the writer, director and creative [...]
Seriously! Luke Skywalker had to grind womp rats
Note – this will make more sense if you’ve ever played World of Warcraft or any other MMOG
Joined Channel: [1. General - Dagobah]
[Luke_S] yells: Need hlp wit teh Raise X-Wing q plzzzz
[1. General] [MasterYoda]: It’s a solo quest
[Luke_S] says: I need help plzzz
[1. General] [MasterYoda]: You can solo it. It’s not hard.
[Luke_S] whispers: hlp plz. [...]
