This has to be one of the weirdest films I've ever heard of...
Wednesday, 27 June 2007
Aurora - Dave School CGI Short Film
Trailer for the upcoming film Aurora, created entirely by students in the June 07 graduating class of the Digital Animation and Visual Effects School! - For a student film, this looks GREAT!
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Wednesday, 16 May 2007
To blog, or not to blog ... 2
I admit it; I'm suffering from Blog Depression.
There are two main reasons for this:
So when I these two characteristics with the real-life practicalities and the fact that no-one was reading the blog - not even I find playing to an empty house that interesting - I gave up.
So a few random posts and year-or-so later and here we are.
So why start again?
To be continued...
There are two main reasons for this:
1st - I am easily bored. I'm a fast learner, so once I got the hand of the basics of creating and running a blog the novelty had worn off. So I started tinkering, one of my favourite pass-times and biggest flaws - tinkerers rarely finish anything. Which was fine until I reached the limit of my technical know-how.
2nd - I'm a always trying to create something that's one step beyond what I can practically achieve. When I envision things in my mind, and believe me when I say I put far too much though into most things, they they reach a level idealism that when I actually start to make them I an immediately disappointed.
So when I these two characteristics with the real-life practicalities and the fact that no-one was reading the blog - not even I find playing to an empty house that interesting - I gave up.
So a few random posts and year-or-so later and here we are.
So why start again?
To be continued...
Sunday, 22 April 2007
Post Envy
Consider this a To blog or not to blog interlude:
Wil Wheaton wrote in a recent post about his respect for writers Warren Ellis, Neil Gaiman and John Scalzi and how his developing fiction writing skills don't match up:
I'd just like to say I completely agree with this statement but I'd like to add another name: Wil Wheaton himself.
I've been reading his blog for a couple of years, along with his other web writing like Games of Our Lives, and Just a Geek is one of the few hardbacks I own.
Man, I wish I could put posts and online articles together like that!
Wil Wheaton wrote in a recent post about his respect for writers Warren Ellis, Neil Gaiman and John Scalzi and how his developing fiction writing skills don't match up:
I find myself feeling like that more and more with various authors. I read something and think, "Man, I wish I could put words and images together like that!"
I'd just like to say I completely agree with this statement but I'd like to add another name: Wil Wheaton himself.
I've been reading his blog for a couple of years, along with his other web writing like Games of Our Lives, and Just a Geek is one of the few hardbacks I own.
Man, I wish I could put posts and online articles together like that!
To blog, or not to blog ...
As you might have noticed, if you even exist at-all, I've not really bloged in a while. Apart from some random bits of stuff I've been off the posting-wagon since December 2005.
There are some practical reasons for this.
I have been busy moving and am now the proud owner of my first property, a nice little one-bedroom flat in a cool looking 100-year-old, 4-storey, redbrick converted school building. This has meant two things: one, I've had a lot less money to spend and two, I was physically off-line for a couple of months while I moved and had my broadband installed.
But to be honest these problem were resolved months ago. The main reason is I’ve had something of an existential crisis about my reasons for continuing to blog.
In my first post I said “The reason for doing this blog ... well truthfully there isn't one” but that wasn’t entirely truthful.
I had this idea that it would be a good way to record and share the things in the interweb that I liked and also a way to practice and publish my writing; something between an old fashioned link-list and micro-journalism.
Things started off well. My posts were irregular but a pleasant mix between the micro-journalism, links to the fun and the interesting on the web and original content (photos and the like). I even branched out into other specific blogs, one to record my birthday trip to America and a communal blog with my mate to dramatise our Urban Dead games. There were a couple more blogs that stayed at the idea stage but the whole blogging experience was ticking along nicely.
So, what went wrong?
To be continued …
There are some practical reasons for this.
I have been busy moving and am now the proud owner of my first property, a nice little one-bedroom flat in a cool looking 100-year-old, 4-storey, redbrick converted school building. This has meant two things: one, I've had a lot less money to spend and two, I was physically off-line for a couple of months while I moved and had my broadband installed.
But to be honest these problem were resolved months ago. The main reason is I’ve had something of an existential crisis about my reasons for continuing to blog.
In my first post I said “The reason for doing this blog ... well truthfully there isn't one” but that wasn’t entirely truthful.
I had this idea that it would be a good way to record and share the things in the interweb that I liked and also a way to practice and publish my writing; something between an old fashioned link-list and micro-journalism.
Things started off well. My posts were irregular but a pleasant mix between the micro-journalism, links to the fun and the interesting on the web and original content (photos and the like). I even branched out into other specific blogs, one to record my birthday trip to America and a communal blog with my mate to dramatise our Urban Dead games. There were a couple more blogs that stayed at the idea stage but the whole blogging experience was ticking along nicely.
So, what went wrong?
To be continued …
Tuesday, 6 June 2006
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Sunday, 14 May 2006
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Next Sun (21st May) I will be running in the Great Manchester 10k Run for the 2nd time. Last year was the first time I had run in an organised race and the first time I had run 10k - or anything over for the bus distance to be honest.
Last year I raised money for an AIDS charity in Africa - Tackle Africa - but this time I've picked something a little closer to home. I'll be raising money for the Yorkshire Cancer Research charity.
If you would like to sponsor me you can online via the link below:
http://www.justgiving.com/markslattery2006
I'll let you know how I do next week.
Last year I raised money for an AIDS charity in Africa - Tackle Africa - but this time I've picked something a little closer to home. I'll be raising money for the Yorkshire Cancer Research charity.
If you would like to sponsor me you can online via the link below:
http://www.justgiving.com/markslattery2006
I'll let you know how I do next week.
Sunday, 5 March 2006
Saturday, 25 February 2006
Bang! Bang!
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Sunday, 1 January 2006
Happy New Year!
HNY! to all my readers [echo...echo...echo]
And in the spirit of all things old and new here's 100 things we didn't know this time last year from the BBC online.
And in the spirit of all things old and new here's 100 things we didn't know this time last year from the BBC online.
Wednesday, 7 December 2005
Evolution of the Apes
What this special report from Channel 4: Gorillaz in our midst.
Cheese and rice! Did you see those holograms?
Now I've been a sci-fi fan my entire life. I have seen practically every episode of Star Trek and every other sci-fi show out there (Shut up, I'm geek and I'm proud) but that's better than most of the pseudo-holograms you see in films and TV!
Finally! The present is surpassing the future ... now about that jetpack.
Wednesday, 30 November 2005
Where's Wil?
WWW Extras
One of my favourite parts of DVDs are the extras. I love to watch the making-of freaturettes and the behind the scenes documentaries.
Now that the Web is being used more and more to promote new movies, a lot of these extras are appearing on the WWW first and for FREE.
Here are a couple of my faves:
Production video diaries by Bryan Singer during the making of the new Superman movie; Superman Returns.
A blog with video diaries for Kevin Smith's Clerks 2: The Passion of the Clerks.
Now that the Web is being used more and more to promote new movies, a lot of these extras are appearing on the WWW first and for FREE.
Here are a couple of my faves:
Production video diaries by Bryan Singer during the making of the new Superman movie; Superman Returns.
A blog with video diaries for Kevin Smith's Clerks 2: The Passion of the Clerks.
Tuesday, 29 November 2005
I [brain] Urban Dead
UD is a amazingly simple yet, incredibly playable online, multiplayer, turn-based zombie apocalypse game.
Me and my friends have been playing it for several weeks now and it's become a little adictive.
If you've not tried yet you should go play now!
Then you can follow the progres of our characters at our UD blog: UD Iron Reavers
And remember: Always have your shotgun loaded and a safe place to sleep.
Sunday, 27 November 2005
HULK RIP!
WOW! It's scenes like this that remind me why I love comics.
You couldn't descibe this moment in a novel with the same impact and you wouldn't have enough time in a movie to absorb the relevance.
This mini-series is deffinately going on must get list.
Saturday, 19 November 2005
Nerd Porn
How did they know? How? Have they been reading my mind?
Geek Fantasies
Hmmm ... magic misslie resisted ... [drool]
Seriously though, this sort of thing gives geeks a bad name. Now nerds, those freaks would probably love this sort of thing. Sickos!
Geek Fantasies
Hmmm ... magic misslie resisted ... [drool]
Seriously though, this sort of thing gives geeks a bad name. Now nerds, those freaks would probably love this sort of thing. Sickos!
Wednesday, 16 November 2005
Truth vs Non-Truth, init?
Ali G vs the NBA! Visit the site and view the video clips to find out what it's like to be MP3 of the Year, how many springs are in the average basketball and if they have to play in their underpants...
Monday, 14 November 2005
We Now Return to Our Regular Scheduled Viewing ...
After a long brief absence for laziness personal reasons I'm back.
Let the celebrations begin ...
M
Let the celebrations begin ...
M
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