March 2009
11 posts
Cinema
Some of the best films I’ve ever seen have been watched in the last few days. Sarah has set about compiling a definitive list of cinema to watch in rebellion to the trash films that spew out from Hollywood at an alarming rate. Of course, some of which we have unfortunately watched — hence the need for such a list. We’re back tracking across the vast sea of art, drama, comedy, foreign...
Why Is "The Great Sperm Race" Unique?
As a teenager, when “educational” was appended to something I assumed would be fun, it immediately lost its appeal. I would assume that a group of adults had seen what people of my age enjoy and then tacked on the educational bits. It would no longer be an enjoyable experience. It felt almost patronising.
Sexual Education takes this to another level, arguably covering an ever more...
Brave New World
‘Brave New World’, written by Aldous Huxley was first published in 1932. Yet, when I read each chapter the modern context in which ‘Brave New World’ could be set forces me to remember that this is a book that was well ahead of it’s time, in even some ways ahead of our time.
I remember reading ’Nineteen Eighty Four’ and feeling the same grimace, the...
When I hear the sound of disappointment in a persons voice in reaction to something I’ve done, it haunts me.
I hate missing opportunities, but with so much going on at once it’s hard to have everything in balance. When my concentration is shifted, like it always is, inevitably there is something or someone that goes without attention and it nearly always causes problems.
Today I...
Proud Camden
What a jerkfest. We went to see Helsinki play at Proud in Camden and it was the dumbest place I’ve ever been to a gig.
For a start, the ticket price was advertised as £5 but when we get there they claim it’s £10 and it’s for charity (who cares). What a con from the word go, anyway, we parted with our cash because we were already there.
I went to buy some drinks, they seemed...
In Summary
We won the job! Is wasn’t really much of a competition after we showed them our game engine and illustration ideas.
Since it’s a quick turn around job, it helped to let them know we made Sandstorm in 5 days too!
This will be our first full design/development job for a UK company. It’s quite nice that we can go for coffee and discuss ideas with them, I’ll update when I...
Meeting
I have a meeting in 9 hours, 51 minutes in Soho.
I need to go to sleep.
