Month: April 2014
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Trunk TV – old BBC intros
Lovely journey back in time to see rare TV title sequences from the BBC courtesy of Jonny Trunk. They don’t make ’em like that anymore….partly because the program would be over before the titles finished…long, much? Still better than the current ‘shrink em down and talk over them’ approach, that must be depressing for those…
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God was doing a new thing
…and it involved really bad Christian rap and terrible dancing. Yeah, that’ll work! Move over Justin Bieber for Michael Clancy! Who seemed quite cool when this blew up a few years back… To give him credit, the starting material wasn’t that good, and I prefer his version to the original. It’s a cover of song…
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360 degrees Go Pro video
Although I am starting to wonder if all the Go Pro viral videos are just adverts, here’s a great idea – 360 degree video. You need 6 Go Pro cameras though, and a mount…and I guess the software to warp the video to fit. Inspired me to mess around with Photosphere on my phone after…
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Norman McLaren & Geoffrey Jones
The names of Norman McLaren and Geoffrey Jones pop up quite a lot especially given my love of Len Lye – but apart from Geoffrey’s Snow I’d not seen their work. How wrong I was! These films would be dead certs for VJing sets, if I was still doing it. Proving that Oramics was around…
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BBC Radiophonic Workshop rare footage
Firstly is a good mix of clips of all the archive footage – you’ll recognise some of this in later videos. I still haven’t found what I’m looking for – but the bonus is finding some rare footage of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Above is the Workshop in 1964 – with Jenyth Worsley, Maddalena Fagandini…
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16 bit Doctor Who Theme
Love this chiptune version of Doctor Who! Talking of Doctor Who – more hunting around for other clips, I found that ‘More That 30 Years In The TARDIS’ is on Dailymotion in two parts (still didn’t find that BBC Radiophonic genesis of the Doctor Who theme clip I was looking for – maybe they cut…