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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

According to Palmer, the Maggot Baby is hatching soon.

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

Recently I’ve had ideas for posts, but I’ve either been at work, visiting family, or too tired to be bothered blogging.
I’m determined to make time to write, produce, shoot and edit a short before the year is out, so I’m slotting in screenwriting time when I can. I’m also helping a couple of friends out [...]

A three day weekend is a chance to blog! It seems my free time has dwindled to nothing recently, which is OK for the most part, except right towards the end of my week, when I simultaneously want to sleep and have enough fun to reward me for my hard work in the last few [...]

Has anyone noticed that no-one is referring to the internet as the “Information Superhighway” any more? This makes me happy.