Posts Tagged “liberal democrats”

Yes, I know there are different ‘Pravdas’ but the context in which the articles are used clearly show that there are few limits to The Conservatives’ use of the mantra :
‘My enemy’s enemy is my friend.’

Update 2: The Tories have now (really) produced a videotape of the police search of Damian Green’s Parliamentary office. As far as I can see it does nothing but keep the kettle lukewarm.

What with the ‘Zanu Labour’ and ‘Stalinesque’ attacks and now this non-exposé, the Tories are unintentionally making themselves look desperate and panicked when, I suppose, they intend their campaign to have this effect on the government.

Now it’s starting to look if they really have something they want to bury and are keen for any investigation to be curtailed.

Update:
Here’s a cropped version of yesterday’s image for Channel 4 News.

You can see the full version here. When you get there, click on the image for super size.
(btw – despite what it says on C4 News, it’s an image not an animation)

Morten Morland has created an image along similar lines but much classier here.

Hopefully a new image on the same topic a bit later on C4 News.

I’ve been a bit under the weather for the past few days (not self-inflicted) so apologies for no new images.
I’ve just realised amongst all the other news – The Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards, the Tory conference lapdance scandal etc. etc. that the Lib Dems are currently holding a conference so I’ve put an old flash file onto video and uploaded to YouTube.
With the plethora of video packages around and their constant relaunching of new versions, it seems possible to make basic videos using trial software and spending nothing these days but I reckon I will take the plunge and buy the new Ulead offering…..eventually.
Converting an old flash file does limit what can be done (unable to animate certain elements until they come to rest) but I hope you’ll put up with the animation’s and my inadequacies.

Oh, and well done to Glasvegas on reaching No. 2 in this week’s album charts with their first album and a fine one it is too.
A few of us at the local pub are grateful to Glasvegas songwriter and lead singer James Allan whose presence at the Crown and Goose a few weeks ago ensured the pub didn’t close as early as the management initially planned.
We’re planning on digging up the corpse of Hattie Jacques next week, standing her in the corner of the pub and telling the management that Beth Ditto’s popped in for a late night drink. That should keep it open for a while.

Nick Clegg agrees to abandon Lib Dem voters in Haltemprice and Howden to support (edit) Conservatives’ and/or David Davis’ publicity campaign on 42 days.

For those relatively new to the site who may be wondering where my new version of the Lib-Dem bird came from, view this video which I put together while Chris Huhne and Nick Clegg were battling it out over who was going to replace Menzies Campbell :

Dave Brown in The Indy – This link takes you to the comments page where you can then click to enlarge. A direct link can mess up your browser.
The cartoon link from the comments page is updated daily, so this will be out of date tomorrow.
and
Morten Morland in The Times – This link takes you to the cartoon section, so it will be gone in a few days.
Very different styles, lovely ‘gags’ analogies/settings – both outstanding.
Great stuff.

I may as well repost this then.
EDIT – Currently badly rated by one Lib Dem supporter who has now suggested that I delete the video and kill myself.
I am crushed.
BTW – If it doesn’t seem to be loading, click on it and you can see it directly from YouTube.
(Looks like YouTube has a bit of a problem with the embedding at the moment.)

I’m trying out YouTube to post a couple of things before my evaluation period of the new Flash software expires.
To make things easier on bandwidth if folk want to see or share, I’ve uploaded my recent Lib Dem animation. an updated version of my recent Lib Dem animation to display the minor calamity that happened between the leadership candidates yesterday.

btw. It’s not a mistake me tagging this post with Chris Huhne, Nick Huhne, Nick Clegg and Chris Clegg.
The video, before YouTube converted it, looked very clean but the conversion has muddied it a fair bit. I’ve left the original animation a few posts back which is crisper but it doesn’t have the updates. I’ve uploaded the first version (with some minor amendments) to my YouTube account as well.
I would ask that no commercial site runs it, including the larger blogs that seem to provide more advertising (which downloads soooooo verrrrrrry slowly) than sense these days.
I’ve made a few other small amendments to the animation- The swarming birds have been tidied up, a few sound effects added and I’ve tried to sort out the cloud movement in the second half, so when the ‘camera’ becomes stationary, the clouds slowly go in the opposite direction from those in the first half, when the camera angles are reversed.
Note for Flash animators :
Converting so it would work in video took ages because, even in the newest version of Flash, you have to manually change embedded movie clip property settings from ‘video’ to ‘graphic’ and (after checking via Google) set these at ‘play once’. NO! :
Not ‘play once’. If you want it to play once, then that’s fine but if you want a clip to loop during a tween, (flapping wings for example) then set it to loop. That seems pretty obvious doesn’t it, but the advice I found on the web seemed to say that the embedded clips would only work if they were set to play once.
Adobe needs to get its act together on exporting an animation correctly to video without the user having to reset say, one hundred, embedded clips manually. They should also make clear that you cannot export to Quicktime unless you have Quicktime Pro because if you haven’t shelled out for it, Flash works away exporting the damn file and then hangs at 100%.