Latest day-out video fun
August 18th, 2007
A fun video of a day out in Windsor
August 5th, 2007
First tryout of the new Sanyo Xacti HD2, and, oddly, the first time I’ve had a chance to mess properly with iMovie HD. A total 20 minutes of footage edited down to this 4+ minute short. Enjoy!
Time travel is possible through genuine voices
July 2nd, 2007
It’s difficult for me to remember exactly when Doctor Matthew Keynes first entered my life. Must be six or seven years ago now, maybe more - so much has happened since then. After some time away, he’s back, and back in a new and interesting guise.
Keynes is the lead protagonist of a TV series concept [...]
Spot the iCal difference one year on
June 28th, 2007
How things change across a year…
On the left is a screengrab of my iCal for the last week in June 2006. On the right one from the last week in June 2007 - and none of that is personal / family / non-work (in whatever respect) related.
Still, looks like tomorrow morning is going to be [...]
Story narrative with micro-blogging (Twitter)
June 24th, 2007
FishDog, AngelSpoon, and Kirk are three characters which have been with me for a few months now. They grew organically out of some random text insertions after becoming bored with sensible content for my Skype mood message (a status message visible alongside my Skype name in contacts’ Skype windows).
When Twitter came along, it seemed an [...]
Facebook - a very big, claustrophobic, bubble
June 21st, 2007
Facebook’s recent growth is certainly impressive - are there any interweb users out there who have not had several invitations to join? My gut-level dislike for Facebook stems not from concerns of a large bubble which may burst, but from a large bubble with deliberately increasing wall thickness.
There is one element to Facebook that makes [...]
Moleskine Japanese Album - starting the drawing
May 28th, 2007
Back in February of this year jEN made an excellent suggestion: create an drawing using a Moleskine Japanese Ablum (my blog post about that here). This weekend, as you can see from the above photograph, I finally made a start.
The albums basically consist of 60 pages, rather uniquely bound as you can see. This creates [...]
Larch bonsai - training stage one
May 6th, 2007
Last week I talked about the first stage recovery of a neglected Japanese maple bonsai. This week, it’s the turn of what was once a very attractive larch. Like the maple, several years of neglect have resulted in runaway growth and branch die-off.
This picture (click for a larger version) shows the larch before pruning and [...]