look at this red-hot plasmic photo of the sun

Just look at it.



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happy hallowe'en everybody!

In honour of my favourite holday (which I hope you're already celebrating since it's one of those rare occasions where the fun gets a many-night extension in the buildup to Saturday eve's all-out hauntfest!), here's Army of Darkness in 5 seconds. OK, 48. Whatever.

stimulingual

The 'Received Pronunciation' affected accent spoken by all on-air personalities of the BBC is such a turn on, I swear I must live in the wrong country. I think was supposed to have been born in the English countryside circa 1900. But it's not an entirely natural sound, it's actually a completely fabricated way of speaking tracing its use back to the ivy league types who assumed an exaggeratedly-proper sound while posted up at Oxford studying to be Lords and Chamberlains and stuff. I guess phonetics was the last bastion not separating them from the lower classes. It wasn't until the 1950s when 'The Queen's English' had a cemented rep for total snobbery, and the BBC adopted it, noses jettisoned firmly up into the air for all time.
When an English person hears RP, they think 'snoot', when I hear it, I'm happy in my pants.

Accents! Stop motion! Nice BBC promo piece shot entirely in-camera from Director, Sean Pecknold.

got a minute? grab a corona

More goodness shot with a Canon 5D [have I mentioned the terrific crush I've got on this camera already? Of course I have]. Floridian Director/Cameraman, Ryan Lightbourn uses simple pans and pushes to tell a story of colour and viewpoint with the glorious bright blues and greens of the Bahamas as a backdrop. Broad-strokes slowly focus in on the details. It's oh-so-pretty. There's an abrupt switch mid-way through to imagery not usually associated with 'paradise'. I'm not sure there's an underlying comment here, but the theme continues to visually seduce. Ultimately it's really a gorgeous expression of the type of creation the Canon's capable of.

this is slightly awkward for both of us

I have an instant newfound [renewed?] love for Luke Perry after he posed for Sears-style portraits with his fans [airquotes] at DragonCon this year.

My inner fourteen year old is squealing with lovesick glee right now.







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tripods and tearjerkers

Love-your-pet day at the Shift Show continues with Phos Pictures beautiful mini-doc, 'Last Minutes with Oden' about a dog.... well, really, it's about life.

I bawled.

Won best vid and doc at the Vimeo Festival + Awards.

more ireland, as if i needed convincing

It's only noon-ish but I can already tell you that the four minutes I spent watching this surfing vid shot at Mullaghmore Head by Peter Martin has been my time best spent all day.

miaou

MiCha is a cat. a lamp. a cat-lamp. I'm sure they took some inspiration for their design idea from Pixar's anthropomorphic logo-lamp, but they've really made a leap and created an extremely adorable whiskered real-life gadget complete with its own video. I want to cuddle one without getting burned somehow. I should also point out that despite the misleading video evidence, I'm thinking it can't actually reposition itself without your help and imagination.
Made in France, where all chic things are made.

the softest sell?

I'm not sure what to be more offended by - the fact that The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas (a hotel marketed towards today's lucre-dripping luxury-chasing gal-of-privilege) seems to think the typical woman mostly just wants to treat handsome men as objects - quite literally furniture - and cuddle baby animals while being photographed, or that they're sort of right. Either way, great spot. Bring on the kittens.

"i'm meant to be tall in my body"

I don't want to steal any Chilean miner thunder or anything, but if you really want to reflect on the triumph of the human spirit and meditate on long-term social innovation that'll impact lives, get a tissue right now, especially if you used your legs at all today.