Notes from a Small Online Island

Ernest Hemingway once said the Internet is a fine place and worth fighting for.
I agree with the second part.

  • 19th
  • May
  • 2010

By nerimon

‘Get this song on iTunes: http://bit.ly/timeofyourlife

Check out the rest of my music: http://www.alexdaymusic.com

Massive love to -
Emma - http://youtube.com/freeasabee - for being a robot
Charlie - http://youtube.com/charlie - for making the video
Tom - http://youtube.com/hexachordal - for producing/instrumenting the song’

  • 18th
  • May
  • 2010

“Fullerton” by Woodpecker - Directed by Susan Buice

Synopsis:
Haunted by the memories of everyone else you’ve been with doing the same things in that same bedroom running into the same problems you realize that there is only one constant. Your dog.

More of Woodpeckers Music here:
http://woodpeckermusic.com

The Periodic Table of Super-Powers
by Chris Sims
via www.comicsalliance.com
‘With this table, you can easily represent your favorite super-heroes’ power-sets in simple, not-at-all-far-too-complex-to-be-useful formulas!For instance: Superman comes out as: OAFSISpVxVhSnWolverine can be represented as XWxHSn’

The Periodic Table of Super-Powers

by Chris Sims

via www.comicsalliance.com

‘With this table, you can easily represent your favorite super-heroes’ power-sets in simple, not-at-all-far-too-complex-to-be-useful formulas!

For instance: Superman comes out as: OAFSISpVxVhSn

Wolverine can be represented as XWxHSn’

  • 17th
  • May
  • 2010
Illustrator Gidi Vigo has produced nine minimalist posters inspired by several superhero films of the last several years.

Illustrator Gidi Vigo has produced nine minimalist posters inspired by several superhero films of the last several years.

Changes (for 6 Music)

By Adam Buxton and

Chris Salt @ Oblong Pictures

Where tiny little men move one frame at a time 

The BBC has announced plans for a restructure of some of its services. As part of that restructure, 6 Music, a radio station that caters almost perfectly to my tastes, is to close. Adam Buxton, one of the DJs on the station, made a little song to encourage people to show their support and try to change the minds of the powers that be. I have made a little video for that little song. I have made it very quickly (by my standards) so it’s a bit wobbly in places.


For more information on how to make your voice heard and maybe grant 6 Music a stay of execution, go to http://www.love6music.com and follow the steps there to contact the BBC Trust.

I thought it was fairly obvious, but apparently not. The man with the stripe on his face is meant to be David Bowie. The tune is David Bowie’s “Changes” and the new lyrics were written and performed by TV’s Adam Buxton with backing vocals by top pop motorway man Tom Robinson. I did the moving and the faces.

Any hair that you don’t recognise, except for the Bowie one, is from Arealight’s Custom Work - google for link.

A tutorial that describes the process for the face animation is linked on the description of my Fight Like Apes film. Go there for that.

Other links: http://www.adam-buxton.co.uk for Adam and http://www.flickr.com/photos/38509565…for Pete’s Lego creations. Also http://www.davidbowie.com/ for the guy with the stripe on his face.”


Know Your Meme

Challenging a YouTube Take Down with Fair Use

The Rocketboom Institute for Internet Studies explains how YouTube makes it easy to dispute a wrongful copyright claim.

For more information on the YouTube takedown process, visit the Electronic Frontier Foundation athttp://meme.ly/DisputeYoutube

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Amanda Palmer + Mitch Benn “Everything Sounds Like Coldplay Now” Live at Bush Hall

April 25th 2010.

Filmed and Edited by Drew K Forrest for KhufuMedia and Amanda Fucking Palmer.