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I'm really looking forward to Bladerunner: The Final Cut, essentially a big DVD boxset that'll be the final version of Bladerunner, a classic SF film that's definitely up amongst my favourites, but which has a troubled version history.

But it's a little disingenuous, for Ridley Scott to claim to claim that he has an aversion to remakes.

I'm a massive Ridley Scott fan, and despite the horror that was A Good Year, it's great to see him back on form with American Gangster, but he was clear when there was a director's cut of Kingdom of Heaven, that it was done for marketing purposes (Note: Wikipedia refers to a Total Film interview about the extended DVD being made as a result of paying too much attention to preview audiences, but I distinctly recall Scott claiming marketing reasons being behind the release in a TV interview. This was around the time, for example, that Oliver Stone's Alexander was being released in numerous versions. Unfortunately, I have no source for this).

Anyway, roll on the 3 December release, and hopefully I'll be able to see it in the cinema too.

Sillyness at work this morning...

Scarily accurate...

Up early for camera duty for the Breakfast Show panto this morning. Great fun with Thandie Newton, David Tennant and Brian Blessed joining the team.

I have to link to this because, well, I made it.

I won't embed this, but what the...

A timelapse of Sheringham, 30 September.

The clouds are coming nicely towards the camera, and the sun crosses the frame towards the end of a day that saw everything from clear skies to rain.

A couple of glitches are the strange encoding at the start - something really doesn't like matt blacks - and a brief moment when the camera loses focus. I guess I forgot to leave it on manual focus.

You can also see, very briefly, flocks of birds fly close by at a couple of points.

The music is from The Draughtsman's Contract by Michael Nyman. But we shan't dwell on that...

I love this IBM video explaining relative distances. The Power of Ten...

(Via Badscience)

Shh. I'll have to take this down very shortly.

It's just a fun little video I made today at work to help with something we're doing. It features the Virgin Radio breakfast team amongst others and Chris Goldson came up with the concept - I just shot and edited it.

Over the last couple of days I've been trying out some time lapse experiments with my video camera. Typically, it's only recently that I've discovered that my camcorder (Sony TRV30E) does it: there's a mode called Interval Record.

Anyway, here's my first effort in all its glory. It's a bid strange at the start because I should have chopped off some darkness which the various codecs (DV AVI > MPEG-4 > Google's Flash Codec).

I could have picked a better day than yesterday, but at least it's better than Tuesday which was really dull. However, there are a couple of exciting things to look out for. Watch the birds sit in formation on an antenna, a hot air balloon fly by in the morning, and look at the clouds flying in different directions at different altitudes towards the end of the day as the weather improves markedly!