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Who Needs Spielberg?

Check out this little film about the making of some scenes for a BBC documentary on the WWII Omaha landings. It just goes to show that, if you’ve got a little imagination, creativity and determination, then the sky’s the limit. I can’t believe how good the sequence looks by the end. Just ignore Hammond at the beginning. He hardly features elsewhere. Promise.

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Categories Film TV Tags creativity Film TV

By on 16/1/08

Talent Gets You On The Floor, Teamwork Keeps You On It

You’ve got to love adidas’ new ‘Basketball is a Brotherhood’ campaign.

If you haven’t seen or read about it yet (and why would you - it’s happening in the States) then it’s a cool idea that will hopefully start to dispel some of the ego-centric traits which are affecting more and more sports these days. Think of our footballers here in the UK - sorry, here in England I should say. Do they know the real meaning of teamwork? It certainly doesn’t look like it from where we’re sitting. Determination and togetherness, as we’ve said before on here, are not qualities you’d normally associate with any recent England teams. Who knows what will happen under Capello.

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Categories Sport Media Tags Basketball Sport

By on 16/1/08

Age No Barrier

You don’t have to be over 18 to buy a new 12”. Nor do you need an iD to download a 320 from iTunes.

But you’ll need a fake one if you’re under 18 and want to see up close and personal the musicians whose careers you religiously help to fund. Venues have responsibilities that make it difficult to cater for an underage audience.While some have experimented with lowering the entrance age to 16 and handing out wristbands to those not old enough to drink alcohol, problems invariably arise when those permitted to purchase the booze do so on behalf of their younger colleagues, and so the principal dilemma for young music fans remains: how to get in.

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Categories Music Tags Music

By on 15/1/08

Laughing In The Face Of Kryptonite

“The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless.” DEAN KARNAZES

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Categories Sport Tags Running Sport

By on 8/1/08

There Or Not?

Bob Dylan played by a 14 year old Afro-America? Bob Dylan played by Cate Blanchett? Strange, but true.

This is Todd Haynes’ brave and inventive new Dylan biopic, I’m Not There, which opened in cinemas last week. Skimming through mostly favourable reviews beforehand, I was expecting confusion. This is a film without a coherent narrative structure in which Dylan’s life is divided up into different periods played by different actors, which are then pieced together as a seemingly incoherent whole. Oh, and neither act goes by the actual name of Bob Dylan.

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Categories Music Film Tags Dylan Film Music

By on 4/1/08

African Soul

Were he alive, you could bet your life that Ryszard Kapuściński would be in the thick of the current unrest in Kenya after Mwai Kibaki was officially re-elected last week amidst claims of fraud from opposition leader Raila Odinga.

News surfaced yesterday of 30 people burned to death in a church they hoped might provide them with shelter. Some 300 or so are confirmed dead in total, and that number continues to rise. This is the bad side of Africa, the volatility, the clan mentality, the violence; and all this in one of the continent’s most stable countries. As Desmond Tutu said today, “”This is a country that has been held up as a model of stability.” No longer.

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Categories Politics Tags Icons Politics Travel

By on 3/1/08

Winter Sun?

Where beach sport meets pure artistry look out for the latest waterfront craze of Bossaball. Combining the skills of football, volleyball, gymnastics and capoeira is no mean feat, and these guys do it whilst adding in a bit of dance and drama for creative flair.

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Categories Fun Tags Sport

By on 2/1/08

12" Faces

I came across something yesterday that brought me cheerily into the new year. A bunch of people have been sending in pictures of themselves using record covers in place of their own body parts.

A record + a camera + a short period with nothing else to do + a little imagination = a hilarious collection of photos...

Check out more of them here.

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Categories Music Fun Tags Fun Music

By on 2/1/08