Archive for the 'Miscellaneous' Category

Check out the pitch page for The Library of Burned Books

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

This morning we start fundraising for The Library of Burned Books. I’m producing, and I’m pleased to be working on such a good, solid script, and with a director who has a great eye for fantastic images.
The Library of Burned Books is a short film that combines live action with animation to tell the story [...]

Credits for Clowntime is Over

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

I’ve done a credit sequence for the directorial debut of friend and colleague Phil Whelans, Clowntime is Over, which takes its title from an Elvis Costello song. Phil plays a role in my latest LFS film, Like Spinning Plates, which takes its title from a Radiohead song.
The film, described by Phil as “a new genre: [...]

Check out the pitch page for Coda

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

A few days ago I finished editing a promo for fellow LFS student, Jonathan Tomlin. It’s a little teaser to give potential funders an idea of what the finished film could be. He’s currently seeking funds through Kickstarter, so please follow the link to have a look at his work, and my creative contribution to [...]

Attention spans and cutting rhythm

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Last week, Mr Gray sent me a photocopy from the New Scientist about a paper from Cornell University that analyses attention span and cutting rhythm in Hollywood movies. Their methods involved analysing cuts and shot length, and comparing them to biological rhythms of human attention span. Essentially what they have achieved is an mechanical version [...]

Wind in my sails

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

It’s funny how humdrum everyday employment manages to eat up so much mental bandwidth. I’ve had almost no brainwaves worth blogging in months. Dull, dull, dull. But now the becalmed feeling is GONE. The day job finished over a week ago, and since then we’ve shot a music video and I’m about 70% through editing [...]

Fewer kids = greener?

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

I love reading well-written arguments from different sides of the global warming polyhedron.
First: Contraception Fights Global Warming from Salon.com
Second: The Population Myth from Monbiot.com
Personally, (and, I confess, as someone who has no plans to procreate) I found the Salon article quite convincing at first, but was wondering how the numbers stacked up. It was reaffirming [...]

Blowin’ in the Wind in Japanese, kind of…

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

What happens when you translate the first line of a Dylan song into Japanese and back over and over again until it translates into the same English phrase twice?
You get a very mangled lyric which somehow still scans.

A Lesson in Framing and Disclosure

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

Chris Marker’s Junkopia is watchable online. I really love the framing and the rhythm of the cutting in this piece, and the way each shot of an object reveals a different aspect depending on angle and context, both spatially and within the film’s own timeline (“narrative” seems too strong a word). There is something reminiscent [...]

Maggot Baby

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

According to Palmer, the Maggot Baby is hatching soon.

Arsebook

Friday, September 21st, 2007

It lives!
Thanks to the mysterious Andy D for pointing this out.