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Monthly Archives: March 2009
Amanda Palmer and the thrill of creative differences
Many, many years ago, oh lordy, we must be talking at least 2004, my old boss offered me a lend of an album. “This looks like your sort of thing, Rob,” he said cryptically. It was the first, self-titled Dresden … Continue reading
Considerations on the shooting of a Straight 8 film.
Wednesday. Early. Pre-sunrise. Alarms go off. Dom and I roll groaning out of bed. Hot, brief showers, tea, a snatched bowl of cereal. Low conversation. Wondering what we’ll forget, what vital thing has slipped through the net of our preparations. … Continue reading
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How To Spoil Your Appetite In One Easy Step
Let’s get the apologia out of the way first. The London Street Brasserie in Reading is one of my favourite restaurants. Full stop. The service and food has always been impeccable, and I have never walked away from the place … Continue reading
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Keeping Music free (in every sense of the word)
I’ve been following the shift from the traditional form of music retail to something a little more random access with great interest over the last couple of years. I’m an enthusiast of anything that’s not the HMV style music shed, … Continue reading
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An Apology
Those of you that were viewing the site last night may have been a little confused as it went through three looks in the course of a couple of hours. This is my fault entirely. Spring is coming, and I … Continue reading
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Updatarama
Things are moving swiftly. Thus I must do the same. Briefly, then. Shooting on OUT TIME will be at some point early next week. We have screened our test roll of neg. Hooray! It’s in focus! Hooray! The centre’s where … Continue reading
Life During And Beyond Straight 8
We move on apace, slipping into the final stages of planning before a long day of shooting. Time is, as it inevitably does with Straight 8, slipping away. The final day for submission of pictures is three weeks away. Here’s … Continue reading
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Maybe I am, and maybe I’m not.
Hmm. Ok. Doing a bit of random browsing while waiting for some video to finish encoding, and ran across Typealyser. Typealyser seems to run the contents of whichever blog you point it at through a Myers-Briggs personality test algorithm thingy, … Continue reading
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