August 2004

Audioblogging, film making and stuff

August 7, 2004

In which I discuss mainly Saturday's impending shoot for the film Nothing Travels Faster Than Bad News.

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A week of audioblogging

August 6, 2004

I've decided to only audioblog for the next week. Gah. We may all live to regret this.

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Nothing to hear here, please move along

August 6, 2004

No, really.

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The Tube Challenge

August 5, 2004

Ewan and Tom took part in the Tube Challenge last week. The idea is to pass through every London Underground station in Zone 1 in the fastest possible time, although I suspect that picking one of the hottest days of the year to do it on hampers things somewhat. I had been hoping to be […]

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Form, format and story

August 5, 2004

When I started writing my first feature film script in July last year, I didn't have a clue what I was doing. I knew the story I wanted to tell, having lived with it lurking in my mind for over two years, but I didn't know how I should tell it. What I did was […]

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For those of us with pencil lead buried under our skin

August 3, 2004

Discovered today that my new boss, Livio, and I share something unusual – we both have chunks of pencil let under our skin. Mine is in the palm of my hand, Livio's is in the webbing inbetween his fingers. But that's not the end of today's coincidence. Tonight I am staying in my friend Gerard's […]

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Oh, it's old news now, but hell, I'll blog it anyway

August 2, 2004

The most inspired post by Hugh McLeod ever, amongst some pretty damn inspired stuff, is his thread on 'How To Be Creative'. I was going to blog it a week ago when it was fresh, but I kinda got too busy and didn't. Now it's everywhere and I'm late, again, and he's been adding essays […]

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Homage to /. or just a bunch of words that sound good together?

August 2, 2004

Just heard the new Fatboy Slim single on XFM. Taken from his new album Palookaville, the single Slash Dot Dash is a short sharp kick to the teeth of a single with lyrics along the lines of 'slash dot dash dot slash dot dash dot slash dot dash dot slash dot dot com', which may […]

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Do video games lead to murder, as some newspapers claim, or are newspapers themselves to blame?

August 1, 2004

Vince writes about the assertion by the Daily Mail that the game Manhunt lead a 17 year old boy to murder his schoolmate. He disagrees, and posits instead that if any external influence was involved, it would be more likely to be that of the Daily Mail itself. Start with this post and then read […]

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