Action

Wednesday I worked on a conference for D & DA, we did an event a few months ago for the same people and they had Dick Powell doing a talk on design, it was very good as they always are but this one had a talk from Hillman Curtis who has built web site for Yahoo and Adobe, he has started to move in to video now. He is good friends with Mark Romanek who has many titles to his name like One Hour Photo and a long list of music videos, he interviewed Mark and made a small video about it, Mark goes on about how he makes his videos and what he does to get the final version, he also goes on to say how there are many time when shot a and shot b go together very well without any planning. Hillman also talked about his video work and how he like to only have 60 mins of tape to use so he makes an effort to get the footage he needs.
After this event it did inspire me to make more of a concuss effort to get the footage I need instead of working around what I have, now I have done any major projects where I have had to plan all the shots out and come up with a good idea of what I wanted but after Wednesday I have had some ideas and I intend to get them in motion. I have a friend in a band called Islands lost at sea who would let me shot one of their videos which is a starting block but I may start a little smaller first and then work from there.

London Olympic logo

This come's a little late after the event but i would like to bring your attention to the new London Olympics logo.

This cost £400,000. That is not a type O, i find it a little hard to believe that £400,000 gets you something that does not look very good, check out the alternate logos here (I like #6)

Manchester on fire, Hell fire!

As promised here is a small video of the even on Sunday just gone down at Stevenson Square, hope you like it or just getting to the end would be nice.

As you will see i got some general footage of the day for all to see, there were some interesting people out there but the bloke at the end had to be my favourite.

Movie Watch

Are we done yet

Ok lest start off at the bad end of the spectrum. Working in projection you have to watch films, good or bad and i can say quite happly this is shit, do not watch it, if you like to laught once in 2 hours go see it but if you have to watch paint dry, wash your hair, scrub floors or stand in a dark room with nothing to do this would be a more fun way to spent 2 hours than watching this film.

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A Room for romeo brass

This is another film from writer and director Shane Medows (This is England) and it one of the 2 film i watched back to back (2^nd to follow). Again this film is set in the late 80’s early 90’s around a very working class environment, it follows the friendship of 2 best friends and the introduction of a simple bloke who seems to be kind at hart. This is a good film, the leading cast is very good and has Andrew Shim how seams to follow Shane Medows in his films along with many more of the cast, Paddy Considne plays a awesome role as well. The supporting cast are floorless as well, they do make the film much more solid and help in the story. This is one of the best films i have seen this year and well well worth a watch

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Dead man’s shoes

Is again a Shane Medows film and follow Paddy Considne on a revengeful campaign to inflict the justice he believes is right, i don’t want to go to much in to the story of this film and i would even ask you don’t go digging round for info as i feel the story and twist of it were fantastic, this is one of my top 10 films, is gritty, funny, well written and just flows so well. I could not take my eyes of the tv. As for Paddy Considne he a very good actor from ‘A room for romeo brass’ and then this which shows what a change can do. I would ask you to go buy this film, now, stop reading grab some cash and just go get it, you will not regret it.

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I am the god of hell fire

Went down to the god of hell fire thing in Stevenson square yesterday to have a good look around and what a good day, there were some many lovely people there and even though the queue of a drink was always 9 people deep it was nothing to put someone off. I managed to stick around for a few bands and got to see most of Peter and the Wolf who i liked, i would have loved to stay all night but i had a few drinks with friends planned. I did get some video footage of the event and i am in the process of putting something to getter as you read. One thing i didn’t like was they sprayed over the robot in the square, if you know the area you will know what I'm talking about and I'm not happy about it.

As for the drinks it lasted till 6am and you know when its getting ridicules when the sun is coming up and you still have a beer in your hand, cracking night but the trip to the lakes went out the window today as it was 3 before i even got out of bed. When i finally got out i wanted to take some more footage of the area affected by the fire which was fine until i got the entrance of the building work where i was told to stop filming! After i got my camera on him and told him i have every right to film and what it was for and that i wanted his name and his boss name he soon backed off with his tale between his legs, I'm a nice person (i hope) but don’t like to be pushed about and i will stand up for all of my rights.

I managed to watch 2 of the best films i have seen this year along with one of the worst so look out for them soon.