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.

Movie Watch

Hotel Rwanda

After watching shooting dogs I thought I would give this film a run as its based in the same conflict but got much more press. This is a bigger film with obviously more money and it has a slight American stamp on it compared to shooting dogs. It is a good film and is very gripping, it gets you caught up In the characters but also has a softer edge to it all. Out of the 2 films this one would be the one you would want to watch if you were looking for that slight glimmer of hope that good things do happen but if you can take it I think shooting dogs is the better of the 2 films. I thought it was a very strong cast and Don Cheadle was awesome and I couldn’t see anyone else in the role, Nick Nolte was good but he (for me) played the same character as Jack Cates from 48 hours and Another 48 hours.

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Shooting dogs

This film is from the conflict in 1994 when President of Rwanda plane crashes which start the slaughter of the Tutsi population buy the Hutu. Its set in a school where 2500 Tutsi look for protection buy the UN forces from there death. This is not a film you will come out of and feel good, good in yourself or the UN and there smeared look on what is right and wrong. After watching this film and with the ongoing conflict in Darfur you do start to think about what the UN should do and not sit there discussing problem while hundreds of thousands of people die for no justified cause at all. Having said you will not feel good after this film this is no excuse not to watch it, this will give you some insight in to the world and the dark side of humanity, not to mention the more people know about the atrocities in this world the more we can change it.

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28 weeks later

After the awesome 28 days later when I heard about this film I could not wait until I found out that it wasn’t a Boil film but a big American one. If I take away the bloke in front of me who had seen it and told his girl friend every bit which was about to happen and the bloke who answered more calls on his phone than I do in a week the film was ok, I think any film with fast moving, crazed zombies would be ok, I think it had all the makings of being a very, truly good film but just kept missing the mark. Instead of getting a really good story, good plot, well written they put some average actors, loads of cg and put it out there. If you like your zombies and have a free afternoon and there is nothing on tv its worth a go but only under them conditions.

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This is England

This film is set in the 80’s and being a from this time this film had some real felling for me. It looks at the shady topic of the BNP and how a young boy who has just lost his dad in the Faulklands get sucked in to this world without any real understanding of what this world is. Shane Meadows (director) doesn’t paint every skin head in the same light, it shows the spit in people when it comes to race and religion and brings some very difficult subjects for the time into light. It has a good cast with some familiar British faces and a story which feels very strong even if you don’t agree with it. The young boy (Thomas Turgoose) was strong and well suited for the role and I expect to see ore form him in the future. With a win for the best British independent film award to back it up it should be on for a little longer so get down to the picture house and see it.

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Lives of others

(Leben der Anderen, Das)

The film is set a few years and just up to the fall of the Berlin wall on the east side. It follows a writer and a agent of the secret police and how the life of this free thinking person influences the life of someone who has been put in place to stop this. It has some real dark undertones especially when it comes to the secret police and the awesome power they had just to make people disappear for some small thing or view. This is a wonderful film with a very gripping story, there are many many for filing moments and many moments which will get you raped up in the story. For me the film started off good and just got better and better, may be why it won the best foreign film Oscar. It was a very strong cast and a wonderful story which keeps you in your seat and a numb free bum.

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keyboard of the future?

I have just found what could be the next big thing! I had herd rumours about this new keyboard but until i had a look i could not believe how good this thing could be.

It just like a standard keyboard with keys and everything but the one thing which makes the big difference is each key is made up of 48 x 48 pixel display, so you can have it looking like every other keyboard out there or you can have your very own layout. You could also set it up for any type of application from gaming to video editing.

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fighting at the printworks

Found this on youtube (yes I'm taking credit) and it makes me never want to go down to the Printworks on a fri sat night.

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I like this one, it’s the bottom section which tickles me, don’t let your kids play here! Do parents really have their kids play in a construction site?

I want to eat here, just look at it, you know the breakfast will be hart stopping.

Movie Watch

Science of Sleep

This is the latest film from Michel Gondry who has brought us such films as eternal sunshine of the spotless mind and the awesome chemical brothers video Daft Punk white stripes and many many more so I was expecting something that didn’t follow the main stream of normal films and looked fantastic and I'm glad to sat it ticked every box. The story is around Stéphane Miroux and how the normal world and his dream world don’t seem to have a defined line of difference, this is a wonderful film and where most of the main stream directors would have gone with CGI its so nice to see this was not the case here which makes the film look fantastic. The cast was very strong and the so was the story, one min a was happily laughing away the next I had a big feeling of sorry and sadness, there are some truly amazing bit in this film which should not be missed by anyone. I hope this film comes to a cinema near you (showing in Manchester soon) but if not it should be a sure buy for any occasion.

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Night in (out!).........In (Out!)

How do you define when you are starting to get a little older and more responsible? It’s not easy just to point out one action I think, that was until last night when I had the chance to go out to what would have been a good night. But I didn’t! Why not? Well I had to be at work in the morning and if this had been a normal morning I would have still gone out but the opening weekend of Spiderman meant this would be a big weekend. So maybe I would feel good that I took the higher ground let’s say, you know deciding to be responsible would make me feel good about it, well not, I spent all night wishing I was out and even had a few beers to try and make me feel better but to no joy. So lessen is if you have the change to go out now and you don’t feel the ‘responsible’ thing just go out and enjoy it as it’s not going to last forever, trust me.

ps going to do a re install on my laptop, may be the last time we see each other, wish me luck.

Movie Watch

Spiderman 3

So it is here and I got to watch it and well……. Its ok, for me it feels like they had all these good ideas and instead of putting the best in there they put everyone in there. The action is what you would expect from a film like this and even though the 1^st Spiderman films looked good this does look better, and it is action packed but the story and acting is where it loses points. At one point I thought I had gone in to the wrong screen as Tobey Maguire had become some emo kid who like to dance around a bit, but it did keep the action, funny, suspense and all round appeal you would want from a main stream, middle of the road film. I will be watching it again and getting the DVD when it comes out but I have this little voice in the back of my mind saying I would like it even if it was crap, its Spiderman!

Ps if you do decided to watch it go to the Odeon in Manchester and watch the digital show, there will be other digital shows around the world and I would have not watched it in any other format and even my girl friend commented on how good the image was.

Spiderman 3

Working at the cinema has its advantages and one of these would be getting paid to watch films, I wish it was as clear cut as that but if there are any problems for example, scratches, sounds issues, miss prints, poor make up, all these things need to be fixed and you have to keep your eye out of the smallest of these problems that you would not expect the ‘joe’ public to pick up. Saying all that yes the bottom line is I get paid to watch the latest films, sometimes week and weeks early in a screen all to myself without the annoyance of anyone else. Trust me there is much much to the world of projection and film viewing is only a small part of that world.

But back on track and Spiderman 3 which I would say is the 1^st big block buster for the year, I can remember last summer finding some un-rendered footage on the internet of a trailer and then, right at that minute I could not wait to see this film and with all the recent advertising its something I'm looking forward to. So when do I get to watch it? Tonight, and not just any show but in Digital. Digital is a far better format and is capable of displaying a very high resolution but not just that the colors it can show are head and shoulders above normal 35mm (digital has a larger color gamut) which basically means there are move colors and they can be brighter. Digital covers the gap which in the TV world are classed as illegal colors which are colors which won’t be broadcasted in fear of damaging viewers tv sets. So after checking all the setting and making it ready for my screen at 6 today I wait in anticipation.

You can have a look at Digital Projectors and the technology behind it.