With today’s news about Hostess, here’s a post on The Coiled Spring about how it affects the podcast’s ongoing project to review said snack cakes.
Year: 2012
Slender Trails
When I get home, Gordon is keen to go out, so I switch my work shoes for my walking-the-dog trainers, then head out into the night, and up on the old railroad trail behind our apartment in the Oakland hills. At this time of year, it’s completely dark, so I have my flashlight. It’s bad… Continue reading Slender Trails
The Tunisian Frank Sinatra
My friend Claire Belhassine, whom I met through Cassie after they met at London Film School, recently released her directorial debut documentary Papa HĂ©di… …a 21st century portrait of one of Tunisia’s best loved musicians, HĂ©di Jouini, through the eyes of his British Granddaughter. A contemporary documentary searching for traces of HĂ©di’s spirit, we uncover via encounters… Continue reading The Tunisian Frank Sinatra
Podcast news
Surgery Tomorrow
The date is set, I’m back under the blades tomorrow, 9am. Bit nervous. As well as slicing the nasty out, he’s going to shove a camera down my gullet to check out the inner me. I will of course, demand and post the footage. Perhaps loop it with some Maruosa or Whitehouse. People at work… Continue reading Surgery Tomorrow
US/UK Adjectivenoun Revelations
I’ve always been bemused (is that the word?) by the difference in pronunciation between the US and UK of terms like “apple sauce” and “ice cream”. In the UK, they are pronounced with equal emphasis on the first and second words. “Apple Sauce”, “Ice Cream”. In the US, the emphasis is on the first word, “APPLE sauce”,… Continue reading US/UK Adjectivenoun Revelations
Videoing The Day-to-day
This article on Retro Thing makes a point about not documenting the mundane in our lives. I think we document more than ever, but not always the regular stuff – just crazy or unusual stuff, or images which don’t document rather than say, “ooh look how that ivy grows on that wall”, or “ooh, look at the mist“.… Continue reading Videoing The Day-to-day
About Time Too
Jamie Palmer, director of the recently-televised documentary We Who Wait: The Adverts & TV Smith, London Film School alumnus and friend of my wife Cassie (who was a camera op on the above film), has finally got himself a blog. I say finally because whenever we see him on visits back to London, it’s always… Continue reading About Time Too
LA Film Shoot, NAS FTP
Cassie is away in Los Angeles this weekend, filming for her new documentary project. She’s the creative one in this case, but I have a big role to play in making sure all the tech stuff is ready. The camera uses big CompactFlash cards, which fill up quickly with HD footage. So that she can… Continue reading LA Film Shoot, NAS FTP
Back To The Cheese Slicer
Looks like I have to go back to the place with the gas and knives… Last December I had an operation to excise a lesion from the roof of my mouth. It had been spotted by my dentist during a regular checkup and cleaning, she had sent me to the surgeon, they’d done a biopsy,… Continue reading Back To The Cheese Slicer