Archive for the 'Film on Fusion View' Category

From the high culture of last week’s Film on Fusion View (Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press), we get down to some slo’-mo’ violence with high speed bullets ripping through a variety of objects…

This is a fascinating look at an early media technology that changed the course of history from pop culture Renaissance man Stephen Fry.

For the remainder of the programme, sliced into a further five YouTube sized bits go to Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press, which may only be online for so long as it’s not subject to a take-down notice from the BBC….

Even the likes of Madonna has to do the hoovering - it makes me feel so much better!

(She’s obviously flogging her new CD but it’s still a fun clip!)

This film was made by Ed Saunders and a team of his friends who challenged themselves to make a short film in 48 hours from scratch, including story line, filming and editing - and all for less than £10.

Ed is one of the volunteers involved in Dulwich OnView, the online magazine that I’m co-editing, and this film was first shown on that site.

Ed says, “I organised the film weekend to give my colleagues a break from making boring corporate videos and to give my friends and family a chance to get involved in the filmmaking process.”

“To get the films started I wrote out the first lines of thirty novels and stuck them in a hat, each team then pulled out a line and had to incorporate it into their film either as dialogue, a scene, or just let it serve as a stylistic reference.”

The film was inspired by the first line: ‘Everett Hilgarde was conscious that the man in the seat across the aisle was staring at him intently.’

“I hope you enjoy it, it’s very silly but we had a great time making it!”

Ever been challenged by new technology? Well, this should make you feel better….

My source* tells me that the scroll gradually disappeared in favour of the codex between the second and fourth centuries. It was the Romans who first started to sewing together wax tablets for legal documents, gradually replacing the boards with parchment and thereby creating the objects that were the pre-cursor to the modern day book. The Christians really took to the codex, partly because it was cheaper than scrolls, more durable and allowed for numbered pages and a contents list which helped with accuracy when making copies, all important in a new religion.

*Ideas: A history from fire to Freud by Peter Watson

Is Jim flirting with Paul?

You remember the scene in The Sound of Music when Julie Andrews makes clothes for the von Trapp kids using the old curtains? Well, here is a whole new way to think about re-cycling …

Thanks to loudmouthman for first tweeting about this video

A few weeks ago, I showed a hilarious music video about F***ing Matt Damon by Sarah Silverman. Today’s video is the reply to Sarah by her long-time partner Jimmy Kimmel about him and Ben Affleck.

The main attraction of this second video is spotting the big stars who all wanted to be part of this viral video phenomenon.

I saw Robin Williams, Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz and Harrison Ford. Did you recognise anyone else belting their hearts out?

We all learnt about the South Sea Bubble at school and not long ago, we’ve had the tech stocks bubble. This is video is a cynical take on all the excitement about social media.

What I find fun is that I’ve blogged about a number of the people and applications on Fusion View and ZenGuide. I’ve also visited my cousin when they were in Palo Alto for a time, the heart of Silicon Valley and seen the kinds of houses mentioned in the video.

Every girl’s fantasy?

(You’ll need the sound enabled on your PC to enjoy this one)