No politics, no current events, hopefully amusing…
Link to videos of Kirsty MacColl’s work on YouTube.
Archive for October, 2007
I started from scratch again and it took a while plus there were a few probs with the file size.
If you don’t know the music, congratulations, you’re younger than me.
Pop over to the Little Gems site and look for Belle et Sebastien (theme and incidental music used) and The Flashing Blade.
I really wanted to use the Singing Ringing Tree and Robinson Crusoe music, but neither fits the animation.
The Flashing Blade lyrics seem to match the animation quite nicely.
If you don’t get the analogies, maybe it is a bit contrived but I don’t think so. I’m too knackered to explain my line of thinking 
I know it seems counterintuitive to put up animations or images that make people ponder a bit, considering a lot of virals are essentially quick-fixes (nothing wrong in that), but that’s what I prefer.
I’ve converted it to the new Flash standard. If you can’t see it, please let me know.
Restrictions on protests outside the Houses of Parliament will be reviewed, Justice Secretary Jack Straw has said. - BBC
Reading between the lines, I think we’ll end up with something like this..
“One at a time please !”
Please note that the full animation has now been completed and posted here - Link.
I haven’t posted too much this week, something I hope to correct next week.
Distractions aside, the main reason is I started working on a very brief animation. Although it remains brief, it increased in complexity due to additions and, probably, poor planning. In my defence, you can be halfway through an animation and then have an idea which you do want to include but yet some hours work have to be amended (sometimes binning it and starting again can be quicker.). There’s no way I can plan ideas if you know what I mean.
Anyway, at 5 this morning, I thought, well I’ll just post the damn thing but realised I still have to sweeten the thing up and tweak it a little which I plan to do today and tomorrow.
So, here’s a trailer for it. It’s not a big all singing and dancing production like some of the stuff I’ve created with the wonderfully talented eccentric eclectech and doghorse but I’m reasonably happy with it. Due to cropping the animation, the background in the final scene doesn’t move in the trailer but does so in the final product.
I hope to have the thing complete for Monday morning and then focus on some other parties and countries as well. (A tad too many yellow bird motifs recently.)
The trailer has sound. I trust you recognise the music. In my search for the right sound, I revisited a great site for fans of 70s kids shows called Little Gems which hosts various stills and music clips. I sourced the music from elsewhere but it would be rude of me not to mention a little gem of a site.
Trailer removed as finished item is in this post and I need to save bandwidth.
Story on BBC
2 concepts presented :
Apologies to the folk at the BBC who sometimes come visiting…
Tories score Nul Points in attempt to get Gordon Brown to call a referendum.
New pic for Channel 4 News.
Iain Dale, much to my surprise, has posted The Strawb’s ‘Part Of The Union’ song on his website.
“When we meet in the local hall
I’ll be voting with them all
With a hell of a shout
It’s out brothers out
And the rise of the factory’s fall.”
Unfortunately, the Kelvin Mackenzie of the blogosphere has put a pathetic pro-English (but not anti-Scottish - according to him) cheap-shot video up with it.
No-one has disputed the facts in the video, he claims, but maybe he is wearing green-waxed barbour blinkers because I see many comments disputing the sentiment and facts of the shitty little piece of propaganda. It’s so poor, it makes 18 Doughty Street’s campaigning videos look semi-professional.
Now, without delving into the Barnett formula and debating what contribution Scotland’s natural resources, manpower, fighting men and women and inventions have helped to bale out Britain as a whole, the point Dale fails to make is that some part of London’s economic success is down to the city processing other countries wealth, including the other home countries and that of some English counties.
Still, the one thing Dale has made clear in his pro-English (not anti-Scottish) propaganda is that The Conservatives have abandoned all hope of making any further inroads into the Scottish vote. They are prepared to sacrifice any Scottish votes in their efforts to maximise the vote in their main constituency of England.
That’s why the Tories have an English Oak for their logo in England, a Welsh Oak in Wales and a Bonsai Tree for their logo in Scotland.
His mates are content to enjoy the hunting, shooting and fishing and being condescending to the locals. But that’s OK because Iain Dale’s party is concentrating on England’s green and pleasant land to source their votes, even though its tactics (as amplified on ID’s blog) belong on the grey and unpleasant wastes of the dodgiest of football terraces.
Next election, the Scottish Conservatives will do well to to rename their party HQ an embassy (that is if Tory mouthpieces had any idea of the meaning of diplomacy.)
Difficult to distinguish between candidates and rumours of selection being based on style and ‘cultural’ criteria.
Lembit Opik has ruled himself out despite calls to do so from members who believe it would make the party more ‘entertaining’.
As I completed this, I got a niggling feeling that someone may already have done an Ant and Dec/Lib Dem spoof - If so, apologies.
