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  • Negotiating Overhangs

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesNegotiating overhangs is physical, fun and sometimes scary. It is for this reason that the Via Ferrata de Thônes via ferrata section is such fun. It gets your adrenaline pumping as you fight to keep hold and clip and unclip in the relevant sections. It forces you to overcome your fear of…

  • Watching independent film rather than mainstream cinema

    Watching independent film rather than mainstream cinema

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen I saw the Wired headline below I was happily going to say that I haven’t been to see a film at the cinema in years but that isn’t strictly true. As you have seen from my blog I have been an active appreciator of independent films. I was at FIFAD earlier…

  • The Theta+ Video app is available

    The Theta+ Video app is available

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday the Theta+ Video app came out for Android. The Theta+ video app allows you to trim video clips and then share them to social networks. This means that you no longer need to wait until you get home to prepare content for sharing. You can do it while you sit and have…

  • Thoughts on Youtube Backstage

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYoutube backstage is a consequence of Youtube comments not playing nicely within Google+. Google+ is a pleasant social network where people who want to have conversations and share pictures can meet and broaden their horizons. It is a place where you can write comments that are as long or as short as…

  • A Climbing Two year Old

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesA Climbing two year old is ordinary. They try to climb on to chairs, they climb to stand up. They climb up the stairs and the swings. What is less ordinary is for a two year old to rock climb like a grown up. As I watch the video below what inspires…

  • Prison Architect Game Play videos fill a niche.

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI sometimes envy people who produce gameplay videos because the barrier to entry is so low. In theory all you need is a microphone, a gaming PC or console, a capture card and the ability to talk without being asked questions. In essence you are providing an interior monologue whilst staring…

  • Colin Furze and the 360 Swing

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen you have lengths of pipe, a welder, a water container and a big enough garden you can get up to some mischief. Colin Furze and the 360 Swing are an interesting demonstration of this. In the first two videos you see him build the structure and in the next two videos…

  • Squadron Scramble – book review

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesSquadron Scramble is an interesting book to read in post-BREXIT England because it highlights aspects of the Second World War that BREXITers forget about. It looks at how the main character had to flee France via Dunkirk as well as the situation that Polish airmen had found themselves in. First they lost their…

  • FIFAD – Day 7

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen we watch the news and when we read articles from France we often hear about the disadvantaged youth and the mischief that they get up to. Par-Delà les Hauteurs, shown at FIFAD, is a documentary about a team of youths who go to the Alps and experience the mountains for the…

  • FIFAD Day 4 – Youth and Alpinism

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe fourth Day of FIFAD could have had the banner of youth and children of Alpinism. It began with a conference by Swiss university students who had travelled to Siberia for their projects, a short documentary about the actress who played Heidi in the recent film, disadvantaged youth who went to the mountains to…