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Month: October 2007

  • On trying to unblock the i-pod touch.

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday I tried to unblock the ipod touch and it froze the first time and started to heat up and the second time the screen went to black. I thought on two occasions that my ipod was bricked. I’ve been able to re-install everything and am now syncing the content back…

  • Using leopard as an operating system

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesLeopards are a strong animal capable of lifting animal carcasses into trees to keep their catch safe. It’s also the new Apple operating system and I purchased it. After taking about two hours to install the operating I’m quite happy with the new operating system. Safari has had some new interactivity added.…

  • Black Gold – Documentary about ethiopia and coffee

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhilst in Paris I was given a coffee due to a misunderstanding between the waitress, a friend and I and as a result this was the first coffee I ever finished. It’s almost a week later and I’ve just been to see the documentary Black Gold which discusses the plight of…

  • Why I went to Paris

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe digital era of communcation is a great one because research for video material is no longer restricted the archives of the INA, France television, BBC, TSR and other archives to find footage you’re looking for. A producer from steamboat films was working on a documentary about the walkman and found a…

  • Twittoholism

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwittoholism is seeing the world through twitter. Rather than reading newspapers, books and other intellectual adventures you see the world through what others are twittering about. It’ a bit like a chatroom but you take this one with you wherever you go, from your bedroom to the living room, across town…

  • 503 is an interesting protest documentary.

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhenever I hear that people are protesting I discount this as bored people keeping themselves entertained but upon watching the film 503 I changed my mind. The documentary is about the protests that took place over a period of 503 days when Augusto Pinochet was kept under house arrest in England…

  • Current Affairs in Podcast Form

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is an increasing number of professional outfits now offering their content in podcast form, from Euronews to the BBC, from Reuters to The Guardian and others. As a result there are a number of great resources for news content. The Media guardian was one of the earlier outputs and concentrated mainly…

  • Jamaican Gang Culture And South African Drug Culture – Unreported World

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesAs I write this I am happy that I have been to watch quite a few interesting documentaries at the Frontline Club. The two most recent were made for Channel 4’s Unreported World. This is channel four’s “acclaimed foreign affairs series” and covers a number of topics. The two documentaries I watched…

  • A crude Awakening, the oil crash

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat makes a good documentary is the quality of the interviews and how they are put together to inform and educate us on the topic they are tackling. A Crude Awakening – The Oil Crash is a perfect example of this. Using a great wealth of interviews and archive material it…

  • How Using a Laptop for Client Led Video Editing Work Helps The Environment (Blog Action Day)

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen I started video editing it required a powerful desktop computer and moving it around was hard. Now I’m working on a laptop. This is great for the environment and here’s why. When the equipment you are using is portable it means that you can edit from the client’s offices rather…