I do have one think I can share with you all, and it is only sharing. It’s a 10 minutes animated short for a Tim Minchin piece. Watched ‘Are you ready for this?’ last week and was quite struck with it, only to discover there was also an animation for it, which is also really cool. It very much sums up how I feel about alot of fluffy nonsense that is used to exploit the vunerable or emmanently stupid.
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Another brave venture into the world of youtube and spoken word. This time it is a flash fiction piece called “Free at last”
Free at Last – Dan Patmore 2011
Sat in the pub with a fresh pint in hand, everything became clear. Life was what he could make of it. It didn’t matter that he wasn’t the smartest or the fastest or the most determined guy out there, he was happy with his life’s chips, they were what they were and he was who he was. It was simple.
As his brother went got up to go to the toilet he took one big mouthful of his frothy beer, sighed with satisfaction and left the pub.
The fresh spring air hit him, it was mild tonight. Hands in his pockets he walked down the street, avoiding the underdressed teens with over inflated dreams. He walked until he reached the fields at the edge of town.
As he hopped the fence he discarded his phone and walked. He was free at last.
I threatened this a few days ago when I posted “When is it right to kill a man?” and here it is, my first attempts at sharing some spoken word with the world on yutube
I changed a few of the words, but hopefully you’ll enjoy this spoken word video version of when is it right to kill a man?
Internet be gentle with me please – peace and love to you all x
Check out this video called ‘Miniature Earth’. Imagine if you could take the global population and condense them into an index of 100 people. How would it be broken down?
Appreciate what you have….
One year in 40 seconds by Eirik Solheim is a video I found on stumbleupon, I really enjoyed it and thought I’d share it here.
The video shows a years worth of footage from the same place, with the audio captured in the same place. Erik is a Norwegian media sort of chap who has done a few of these time lapse videos.
One year in 40 seconds from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo.
I’m a sucker for a good inspirational/motivational video. Friend of mine shared this on facebook, 3 minutes well spent. Make every moment count….
Paper Fortress: 2009 – 2011 Reflection from Paper Fortress
This is something I found a long time ago, I had a link to it on danpatmore.com for a while, and in looking for content to update the site with now, I thought I’d share it.
Simple and striking and beautiful I hope you enjoy this video of ‘people in age order’. Bang the drum people, bang the drum x
Hey everyone,
Tilly recently moved into her big girl bed, so bed times have become even more about stories – we’d always read stories before bed, but I used to sing after them. Now it’s stories in bed and time to sleep.
It’s a bit sad for me, as I used to enjoy singing to her each night, but then it’s probably just as well as she was started to demand which songs she wanted and they were all kids songs. Dont get me wrong I happily sing kids songs with her, but I quite enjoyed singing an array of different stuff to her at bed time.
Last night was the first time in a long time I was able to cuddle her in the rocking chair and sing, after Old Macdonald, baa baa black sheep and twinkle star I snuck in ‘I aint scared of lightning’ by Tom Mcrae
It worries me how someone who isn’t even two can have watched so much on youtube. Most watched has to be Peppa Pig, closely followed by a great variety of versions of wheels on the bus.
Here is one of her favourites
Mango and Papaya have an iphone app you can amuse your little one with Wheels on the Bus with Mango and Papaya – Lil’ Gamer