Personal Memories of Jedi... This week's podcast discovery is Missing Frames, a show where the host is joined by guests who haven't seen a particular film (sometimes they'll have one guest who has seen it, one who hasn't), they have a short discussion beforehand, go away
Film Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Last week saw the release of what is said to be the final Indiana Jones film, at least with Harrison Ford playing the character (I think the jury's out on whether Disney/Lucasfilm will go ahead with some form of prequel series on Disney+). Understandably, the last outing
Art Apes will rise I've been getting itchy fingers recently wanting to do some more artwork. I enjoy working on paper but I want to explore creating images digitally. This is my first proper foray, something done in anticipation of the release of the latest Apes film.
Film The Phantom what? I'm almost afraid to write this in case I get lynched but here goes... I went to see The Phantom Menace in 3D. Before you get on with the lynching, I just want to say that I'd be the first to agree with someone when they
Film True Grit Six weeks down, fourty-six to go! This week's piece was infulenced by our recent viewing of the Coen brother's take on True Grit (definitely worth a viewing or three). I hadn't really intended on doing a portrait of Jeff Bridges but I thought it&
Film Chaplin It's no secret that I'm a big fan of Charlie Chaplin and it was only a matter of time before he was the subject of one of these illustrations. To be quite honest, I'm surprised I left it this long and it's
Opinion Movie poster colour palette Earlier today Empire Magazine tweeted an update announcing the release of the latest movie poster for The Woman in Black, an upcoming film adaptation of the book of the same name, starring Harry Potter star, Daniel Radcliffe. Intrigued to see the new poster I went and had a look and
Photography Lomokev's influences, friends and heroes Posted by my mate on yesterdays project50 shot [http://www.flickr.com/photos/nocturnalmonkey/6018790029/], the video below is a presentation by Kevin Meredith, a photographer and author whose book (Hot Shots) sits in that pile I shot yesterday. Worth watching when you can sit and watch the slides.
Photography The WVIL concept camera Really interesting idea, I'd love to see something like this come to fruition.
Film On Chaplin I've been a fan of Charlie Chaplin for a relatively short time. Although I've always been aware of his films, I'd never actually seen any until I saw a documentary on the BBC about 4 years ago. The documentary concluded with a showing of
