It's Christmas almost

"Tis the season for self promotion tra-la-la-la-la-la". Or so it seems. I've worked on 2 Christmas promotions. First Glass Partnership's Santa Uncut promotion. Win a camcorder. Try it.

The other is a TONIT&GUY.TV Promotion. Pictures to follow.

Princess

Nostalgia is getting the better of me. I have to get up early and have loads to do sooooo let's talk about "Princess" - which you can see here and here. I worked on the documentary "Shocked" creating graphics and titles at World's End Productions (see below) It's the story of 2 animators taking a lot of money off a big software company to create an x-rated kids animation. Genius.

Future Fear

I've become obsessed with the podcasts of Jett Loe - Letter to America - 3 down 74 to go. I can't work out if they're as good as he thinks they are or if my obsession with it has something to do with hearing a voice from a previous life. Either way I'm enjoying them and I'd highly recommend them.

Jett was Creative Director at Telewest's broadband division - back in the early noughties when he commissioned lo-fi sci-fi television series "Future Fear" from independent production company World's End. I worked on the online design - and made the suggestion that Paul Darrow of Blake Seven fame would be perfect for the part of "The Narrator" to Jerry Drew - Executive Director of the show - and Director of World's End no less. Jerry's previous works had included the pay-per-view Cat TV a channel for our um... well yeah cats.

Paul Darrow was brilliant - I remember he was all showbiz stories and fast wit. He's reference to the director's hissy fit on set as "a touch of the Val Kilmer's" still brings a smile to my face. Jett's posted an episode here

Oddly enough a puff piece just appeared in the Independent about World's End heralding their status as "one of Britain's hottest independent television companies". Judge for yourself by visiting their website - with so much going on they must be too busy to update their news page -the last entry was WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2006.

Glass Homepage

Ok I'm rewriting this after a few comments that this entry was on the titchy side.
I cut the small homepage video seen here. This is a revised edit of sections taken from a pitch for a French Mini site. It's really just a loop - and this is the third version - but from this some feedback and focus has been given to the job of cutting a more fully rounded showreel for Glass.

The Iphone

I got one. It's great. Not perfect. But I'm hooked. Here are a list of things to do / I'm doing plus a few resources and the odd niggle.

1. Watching film trailers. I didn't before. I do now. But their easy to access and short snippets of self contained video download quick. The quality of hollywood (and big European) film trailers really varies.

2. Iphone Disk. Iphones don't mount on the desktop. You can't store data. Or retrieve notes written on the thing. Both of these problems can be overcome with this handy application.

3. The iphone only has few pre-installed applications. New application for the moment are web based. The best new one: BBC Podcasts The BBC has launched an iphone friendly formatted page allowing users to access podcasts in an iphone friendly quick time format.

4. Apple have a site for Iphone web apps here. It's a great resource. However there's no iphone formatted version. Come on Apple.

5. Wordpress unlike blogger blogsites have mobile formatting built in. They work really well on the iphone. I was talking shit here.

6. The BBCi Player allows UK iphone users to access a lot of BBC content it's incredible.