A Donkey on the Edge

Hey, Jed's on TV :-)

So I managed to read through Adam Buxton's website for ages before I realised it was Adam as in Adam and Joe Adam ohhhhh righhhhht...

Thanks DutchAsHell

So while I'm on the film theme, here's a frame from a classic picture on the iPod (click on the photo to zoom in, the text reads "unica").

Hey, it's a quiz, can you name the picture from the still?

Total fabulousness, now that's what I call a desktop.
(get yours at shilpa-shetty.com)

Just got back from UGtv, crashed on the couch and have just woken up to Open University classics. How to give yourself jetlag without ever getting on a plane...

Basically it was reasonably well attended with a few interesting speakers (and good catering too). I was hoping to hear about innovative image and film creation based on partnerships between production, broadcast and audience players. In the end, most talks and their associated questions were largely to do with how cheap UGtv is... More later if I can muster the enthusiasm.

The obligatory YouTube videos and Flickr photo set

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Am off to UGTV '06 — User-Generated TV summit I'll let you know how it goes.

Technorati: ugtv, ugtv06

Just back from seeing Kiss kiss bang bang at the London Film festival (thanks Billy) and tomorrow Billy has scored some tickets to hear the director talk.

Actually, he talked tonight so that'll be two in a row. Billy and I are trying to think up some interesting questions for tomorrow...

Just watched the pilot of Lost.

Well, no cliché left unturned but somehow, wonderful fun. Lots of good, old-fashioned seat-jumping moments, in your face sound-effects and a suitably Lynchian cast...

While the crash itself is totally absurd (the idea your fuselage would not disintegrate once the tail section had fallen off etc) there are all sorts of kinky ideas, like the idea that a jet engine would keep spinning well after the crash. The turning blades make a great background sound adding to the tension.

By the end of the pilot we have the whole thing set-up. Everyone's got a secret, the cast has just killed Godzilla's baby (oops) and the island they chose to crash-land onto turns out to be part of some sinister French goings-on à la secret research facility goes wrong in a Jurassic park meets Godzilla kind of way...

I might just have to watch next week:-)