This is a storytelling masterclass in the Pixar mould. It’s actually just a CalArts student’s second year project, but even so, there’s more emotion in these four minutes than in Michael Bay’s entire oeuvre. Brilliance. Crater Face from Skyler Page on Vimeo.
A quarter of a century ago I would spend days in my freezing box room in Fegg Hayes (a teensy hamlet north of the most northern of Stoke’s six towns) hammering at an Acorn Electron home micro. I had the Plus 1 and Plus 3 expansion modules, the former giving me access to the world of analogue joysticks & [...]
Once again, I rarely comment on vids, but when our own Lord of Diminishing Returns slipped this through my cyberbox I couldn’t resist featuring it. Many thanks to you, sir, for bringing a chuckle to a bureaucratic day.
In this round-up we’ll be focussing on a spontaneous cultural event that has finally provided pastiche artists around the globe with both a fresh target and an excuse to finally stop humiliating poor old Bruno Ganz in Downfall. Yes, I’m talking about Kanye West’s bizarre intervention at this year’s Video Music Awards. For those of you who haven’t seen it, or just want to know [...]
The Twitterati have once again exploded with indignation, but this time it’s in defence of our own NHS. Father Ted scribe Graham Linehan stumbled across this anti-Health Care reform editorial in the Investor’s Business Daily. The original version actually made for even more infuriating reading thanks to this paragraph: “People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have [...]
Oh my giddy Christ, if you are in any way a music fan your entire universe is about to be felched into a cocked hat. Spotify is coming to the iPhone and it will utterly annihilate iTunes. Why pay 70p for a single track when you can have access to virtually every song on the planet for [...]
Time for another quick dash through the muddy waters of the world’s subconscious lust for obscenity and death – yes, it’s internet round-up time! First up is a site that’s being doing the rounds on Twitter for quite a while, but is well worth another look – Awkward Family Photos. We’ve all been there. The [...]
Homoerotic it may be, but Cassetteboy is just the kind of tragically marginalised knobsessed cut n’ paste genius I would love to lick bone dry of a morning. And there are two of them, so that’s a touch of Downhill Skiing before Breakfast. They’re Mike & Steve, two blokes from Brighton who started off in 2000 with [...]
The jolly netjocks at B3ta have come up with the first Twitter joke based on the works of Oscar Wilde, and it’s just made me LOL in the staff bogs, much to my colleague’s mute distress. I hadn’t visited B3ta for some time now, and I’m not sure why. Maybe it was when Weebl started taking on corporate commissions – [...]
Let’s start at the beginning. Go to www.twitter.com, create an account and log-in. You can then search for people to ‘follow’ (like adding friends on Facebook, except you don’t have to know them) and once you’re following them you will receive their ‘Tweets’. A Tweet is basically like a Facebook status update. It’s text only and can be [...]
