Acieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedddddd
Friday, August 22nd, 2008 Posted in Music | 2 Comments »An email flew across UK new media types today, exhorting people to take part in a flashmob to celebrate 20 years of acid house. Or as most people would term it, acccieeeeeeeeeeeedddddddd - courtesy of D-Mob's We Call It ...
Jessica Hynes is still funny!
Sunday, August 17th, 2008 Posted in Media Musings, Television | No Comments »As long-time readers of this blog may know, I (along with lots of pop-culture-obsessed UK'ers) am a huge fan of Spaced. For those not in the know, it's almost a British piss-take on Seinfeld, albeit obsessed with pop culture instead ...
The play’s the thing…
Monday, August 4th, 2008 Posted in Media Musings, adayinthelife | 1 Comment »About a decade ago, I had my first experience of Hamlet, via Kenneth Branagh's full-length sumptious cinematic adaptation in glorious 70mm. I remember at the time, thinking the following: - blimey, 70mm is gorgeous - I can't follow everything that's going on, ...
Me and Ewan McGregor
Thursday, July 24th, 2008 Posted in Films, adayinthelife | No Comments »In the late 1990s, inbetween freelance web jobs, I spent a day as an extra, being a Singaporean stock trader in the film Rogue Trader, a film about how stocktrader Nick Leeson managed to bring down the United Kingdom's ...
Two random moments from American television…
Thursday, July 10th, 2008 Posted in Television, adayinthelife | No Comments »Last night, we were at a sports bar grabbing a bite to eat. A sports bar with about sixty thousand LCD screens showing various moments from American TV - including coverage of the Ultimate Fighting Championships - which just ...
How can we take the time if we never make the time?
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 Posted in Music, Zeitgeist | No Comments »There's a fascinating article in the Washington Post about what happened when they persuaded a world-class violinist, using a rare Stradivarius, to play some of the world's 'best' classical music purposes while standing on an intersection in a busy ...
Wired UK - take two…
Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Media Musings, Professional, Technology | No Comments »Wired UK magazine Originally uploaded by jovike Back in 1994, Wired magazine tried to launch a UK version, working closely with the Guardian. Since I was barely in university, I couldn't afford ...
