This morning, Lo and I went to a blogger’s viewing of Watchmen, The new Zach Snyder film, based on Alan Moore’s classic graphic novel. The screening was in the viewing cinema at the Paramount offices out towards Richmond, and a beautiful cinema it was (if all cinema experiences were like that, I’d go 5 times as often as I do!)
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Seesmic goes celeb crazy
Things got very exciting this morning on Seesmic, the video conversation site, as a few of the regular posters got to interview some MASSIVE cinema celebs at the Cannes film festival… Something v. interesting occured, but as this is a post about seesmic, I think I’ll use seesmic to comment on it – and you can use seesmic to comment back, whether or not you’re logged in – via the link at the bottom of this post. {seesmic_video:{“url_thumbnail”:{“value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/WA5KOeAjm5_th1.jpg”}”title”:{“value”:”Seesmic goes celeb crazy “}”videoUri”:{“value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/fn9WLeaa9q”}}}
There you go – what fun! Please do add a video or a text comment, especially if you were part of the Seesmic frenzy this morning – what fun that was!
(here’s Jemima Kiss from the Guardian talking about it in their PDA column.)
Iraqi Refugees in Jordan video
Christian Payne is a photographer and photo-journalist who went to Jordan, supported by the UNHCR, to tell the stories of the Iraqi refugees there. Powerful stuff.
Free documentaries to watch online…
Lo. just found this site – FreeDocumentaries.org – loads of streamable/downloadable docs, including SuperSize Me, Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling For Columbine and a couple of episodes of Morgan Spurlock’s ’30 days’ series. Plus lots of other great stuff, and a couple of things that look like crack-pot conspiracy movies which should be good for a laugh.
Days and Days of quality brain food!
video of last night's gig…
here’s the video from last night – I can’t remember what I said in the gig, so some of it may be a little off for the childrens… :o)
anyway, here’s how to loop with no pedals… :o)