Friday, 28 June 2013

Blankets and other winter joys

'The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence', but at least I have shorts to keep my knees cold, and my blanket to remind me how much I love winter.

Saturday, 22 June 2013

Movie Night: Angst

Emiel Penders paints life as a series of mishaps and fears, with a happy resolution in this rather lovely six-and-a-half minute animation.

Friday, 21 June 2013

Father's Day, Will Smith and M Night Shyamalan

I wanted to write something about Gobabis, but it won't come. It makes me sound like a stuck record. It makes me feel depressed. There's always some barracks lawyer in the wings waiting to mess everything up. "No, the group areas act was never a way of getting around the Christian principle of  love, or at least acknowledge and respect, your neighbour."

Saturday, 15 June 2013

A note on web privacy and sharing posts with the CIA

Even if you can prove that you don't peer through the window when your wife is in the bathroom, it won't endear you to the neighbour who catches you leering through the window when his wife is in the bathroom.

Movie Night: Harvest

Writer's block, a field and a scarecrow. What could possibly go wrong? 14 minutes from Robin Nevitt.

Saturday, 8 June 2013

Movie Night: U TURN

Ghosts hitchhikers. There's a lot of potential for corniness in the thing, but this one comes across as different, and fairly creepy. Five minutes from Snap Judgement Films.

Saturday, 1 June 2013

Movie Night: Alpha

Sometimes sex drive switches everything we have learned off. A wry observation in six and a half minutes from Nicolai Slothuus, Matthías Æ. Bjarnasson, Christian Munk Sørensen.