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“The Piano” is a widely acclaimed 3-D animated short film by Aidan Gibbons, a touching retrospective of an older man’s experiences, loves and losses in life. His reminiscences derive from the evocative imagery created by his piano playing, the music of Yann Tiersen’s evocative and reflective “Comptine d’un autre été: l’après midi.”
This piece includes a number of color photographs, as well as the masterful animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/the-piano-a-remembrance-of-things-past/“The Piano” is a widely acclaimed 3-D animated short film by Aidan... more
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“She Farted and Created the World” is a curiously humorous two-minute animated short film by animator/creator Scott Coello, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Virgin Media Shorts Awards. A big puppy farts, and lo, a whole new universe is born, setting into motion an unprecedented cycle of evolution! Yes, it turns out to be the Red Queen Model of co-evolutionary interaction, which holds that the struggle for existence never eases up, so that no species ever pulls ahead for long. The music is provided by a band named Son of Robot.
This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations, as well as the wickedly funny animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/she-farted-and-created-the-world/“She Farted and Created the World” is a curiously humorous two-minute... more
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“Moon” is a delightful, superbly realized two-minute animated short film created by Melanie Horn, which was shortlisted for the 2010 Virgin Media Shorts Awards. The film tells the story of a little boy and the moon, both of whom are feeling very lonely on their own. The boy lives in a big house in the mountains and worries that the moon is very cold. Wanting to become friends with the freezing moon, one wintry night the little boy decides to embark on a journey up into the darkened evening sky to pay it a visit.
This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations, as well as the beautiful animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/moon-a-little-boy-comforts-the-freezing-moon/“Moon” is a delightful, superbly realized two-minute animated short film... more
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“Exposed” is a photographic collection presently on exhibition at London’s Tate Modern Gallery, which offers a fascinating look at pictures made on the sly, without the explicit permission of the people depicted. With photographs from the late nineteenth century to present day, the pictures present a shocking, illuminating and sometimes witty perspective on iconic and taboo subjects. “Exposed” presents 250 works by celebrated artists and photographers, including Weegee, Guy Bourdin, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Philip Lorca DiCorcia, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, Harry Callahan, Lee Miller, Helmut Newton and Man Ray.
The United Kingdom is now the most surveyed country in the world, fostering an obsession with voyeurism, privacy laws, freedom of media, and surveillance, images captured and relayed on camera phones, YouTube or reality TV. Much of “Exposed” focuses on surveillance, and the issues raised are particularly relevant in the current climate, with debates raging around the rights and desires of individuals, terrorism and the increasing availability and use of surveillance. “Exposed” confronts these issues and their implications head-on.
This piece include a number of high-resolution photographs from the exhibition, a slide show and two documentary short films.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/exposed-voyeurism-surveillance-and-the-camera/“Exposed” is a photographic collection presently on exhibition at... more
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Nobel Prize for medicine goes to Great Britain this time! The Nobel Prize distribution committee announced his name as this year’s winner of Nobel Prize for medicine by saying “his contributions to developing IVFNobel Prize for medicine goes to Great Britain this time! The Nobel Prize distribution... more
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“I Was Drunk” is a hilarious new smash music video by Riva Starr, starring talking babies with mustaches. The video’s track is real dope (or dopey), although it’s not clear what I should call it...gypsy house maybe? Anyway, to add a lighter note to your day, please take a listen and watch these mustachioed babies do their fantastic talking routines!
This piece includes color photographs, as well as the wickedly funny music video.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/09/29/riva-starr-talking-babies-with-mustaches/“I Was Drunk” is a hilarious new smash music video by Riva Starr, starring... more
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“Dot” is a new 90-second animated short film directed by Sumo Science (a.k.a. Will Studd and Ed Patterson) at Aardman Animations. Aardman (the creators of Wallace & Gromit) has done many amazing things in animation and earned dozens of awards, but none is likely to be quite as unusual as its new film “Dot” earning a spot in Guinness Book of Records for the smallest stop-motion animation character in a film. All the minuscule detail was shot using the new Nokia N8 smartphone, along with the CellScope technology.
The film features little Dot, a tiny 9mm girl who wakes up in a magical, magnified world and discovers that her surroundings are caving in all around her. She escapes the encroaching wave of destruction as her world unravels via a path made up of tiny, familiar objects, such as pins, pencil shavings, nuts and bolts, coins and a bumblebee, until she finally finds peace by knitting herself a blanket from the very stuff that pursues her.
This piece includes color photographs, as well as the amazing animated short film, “Dot.”
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/the-perils-of-dot-the-worlds-tiniest-stop-motion-animation-heroine/“Dot” is a new 90-second animated short film directed by Sumo Science... more
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“David A. Smith: Sign Artist” is an engrossing documentary short film by the English filmmaker, Danny Cooke. David A. Smith is a name that has become synonymous in Sign-Writing and Glass Gilding circles with high quality, hand crafted reverse glass signs and decorative silvered and gilded mirrors. This documentary short shows detailed work behind the scenes, including the techniques and visions that Smith uses when carrying out his passion as a glass embosser, one of the few remaining traditional UK glass artists.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, as well as the fascinating documentary short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/09/17/david-a-smith-traditional-decorative-sign-artist/“David A. Smith: Sign Artist” is an engrossing documentary short film by... more
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“Monument” is a very touching three-minute short film created by the English filmmaker, Robin Schmidt. The film was made as part of the competition in support of the Fireflies Charity, which recognizes relatives and friends’ battles with cancer. This year they asked for entries for a film challenge to create a three minute film about courage. “Monument” is kind of an urban fairytale about an aged Rastafarian in a wheelchair, who relives a knife attack and decides to rid the community of its knife problem once and for all by magnetizing his body.
The film was a finalist in the Fireflies competition earlier this year, and won the Bahamas 14 Islands Film Challenge. Schmidt is currently editing a full-length version, which will be going on the festival circuit very soon.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, as well as the remarkable short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/monument-an-urban-tale-of-courage/“Monument” is a very touching three-minute short film created by the... more
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“Tell-Tale” is a powerful, intriguing film-noir thriller by the acclaimed English photographer Greg Williams. Carrying on the cinematic tradition of Femme Fatale films, Williams’ dramatic directorial debut takes the preconceptions of this character type and uses them to create a visually striking short with an ever-twisting narrative. Inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Telltale Heart,” the short film is a story of devotion and guilt that is carried out with smoldering visual flair and flamboyant confidence.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, as well as the wickedly perverse noir-esque short, “Tell-Tale.”
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/tell-tale-an-erotic-film-noir-thriller/“Tell-Tale” is a powerful, intriguing film-noir thriller by the acclaimed... more
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“Visions of Auto-Magic” is a captivating collection of photographs of automobiles through the years, images that often transform the ordinary of urban daily life into intense images that sizzle and delight the eye. The photographs range from very early street pictures, to more recent highly abstract views. The master photographers represented in this photo-essay include: Walker Evans, Alfred Steiglitz, Ray K. Metzker, Dennis Stock and Harry Callahan.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution photographs, a slide show and a video.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/09/03/photos-of-the-day-visions-of-auto-magic-through-the-years/“Visions of Auto-Magic” is a captivating collection of photographs of... more
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“Spiral” is a hilarious animated short film directed by the English filmmakers Ross Neil and Matt Clark. In the film a man boards the subway late at night, which is empty except for a woman he finds strangely alluring. She looks just like him. His face grows towards hers, and hers to his. Not a word is spoken, this is their moment to lose themselves in each other, but ultimately they are just passing ships in the night.
This piece includes colorful illustrations, as well as the wickedly funny animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/spiral-two-ships-just-passing-in-the-night/“Spiral” is a hilarious animated short film directed by the English... more
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“Wednesday” is the remarkable debut short film by the English filmmaker Rob Sorrenti, which has screened at 50 film festivals around the world, has won several awards and has recently been signed to Shorts International, the world’s largest short film distributor. “Wednesday” tells the story of a girl and boy born on the same day, at the same time, in the same hospital, whose paths cross again years later, in the very same place.
Sam, 24, is shy and introverted. The only woman in his life is his grandmother, Nan. Until now. Lilya, 24, is Nan’s nurse. She is kind and caring, and Nan would like to bring her and Sam together. But how? Nan soon discovers that playing Cupid is strictly for the angels. As if by chance, when Nan says her goodbye, Sam and Lilya say their hellos. But there is a sense of déjà vu. What was always meant to be is now becoming.
This piece includes a number of color photographs, as well as the very touching short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/08/20/wednesday-one-day-its-going-to-happen/“Wednesday” is the remarkable debut short film by the English filmmaker... more
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“Highbeams” is a hypnotically engrossing experimental short film by the young English filmmaker Thomas F. Midgley. The film was created to explore the darker notions of habit. Was it all just an ugly nighttime dream, or maybe not?
This piece includes a number of b&w photographs, as well as the captivating short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/highbeams-the-darker-notions-of-habit/“Highbeams” is a hypnotically engrossing experimental short film by the... more
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Fickmaschinen (F**k Machine) is a darkly wicked two-minute experimental short film by the London-based filmmaker Matt Lambert. In the post-digital age, do our sexual identities become purely combinations of the countless sexual images we have absorbed? Have humans become objects and actions become automatic recreations of past experiences, recreations of past observations? When the lights go out, do we turn into something scratched, twisted, and carnal, the ghostly forms and grind of pistoning flesh?
This piece includes photographs, as well as the twisted, carnal short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/fickmaschinen-the-dark-carnal-grind-of-pistoning-flesh/Fickmaschinen (F**k Machine) is a darkly wicked two-minute experimental short film by... more
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“Howard” is a beautiful animated short film from London’s Royal College of Art by Julia Pott. The film is a touching reflection on long term relationships, with thought provoking script beautifully brought to life by hand drawn animation. Julia’s combination of the human and animal characters is cleverly thought through and describes greatly the loneliness and heartache of their relationship.
This piece includes a number of colorful illustrations, as well as the remarkable animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/08/12/howard-an-emotional-ride-through-loves-twists-and-turns/“Howard” is a beautiful animated short film from London’s Royal... more
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Saturday's edition of my three times a week LIVE talk show.
Watch or listen to the show LIVE at 11.00am UK time on Tuesday's
& Thursday's & also at 3pm on Saturday's at :
http://www.unitedkingdomradio.co.uk
or watch a recording of the show here on CURRENT TVSaturday's edition of my three times a week LIVE talk show.
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Britain is in the middle of a new media storm over the safety of beef — but this time it is not about mad cows, but cloned ones.
Earlier this week a Scottish farmer admitted that he had raised cows derived from an American clone. Meat from at least one of the animals was sold to wholesalers and probably ended up in stores.
British government experts say there's no danger. In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration says it is legal and safe for meat from the offspring of cloned animals to enter the supply chain, though in reality a relatively small amount has made it to store shelves.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129034395Britain is in the middle of a new media storm over the safety of beef — but this... more
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Tuesday's edition of my three times a week LIVE talk show.Watch
or listen to the show LIVE at 11.00am UK time on Tuesday's & Thursday's, & 3pm UK time on Saturday's at :
http://www.unitedkingdomradio.co.uk
Or watch a recording of the show here on CURRENT TVTuesday's edition of my three times a week LIVE talk show.Watch
or listen to the... more
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* Sterling hits 6-month high of $1.5968 GBP=D4
* Next target $1.5970, strong resistance seen ahead of $1.60
* Dollar hurt broadly by lower U.S. growth, rates outlook
LONDON, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Sterling hit a six-month high against a broadly weaker dollar on Tuesday, lifted by expectations the UK will continue to recover after recent upbeat economic data and robust bank earnings.
The pound also benefited from across-the-board weakening of the U.S. dollar on concerns about a slowing U.S. economy and speculation of further monetary easing by the U.S. Federal Reserve. [FRX/]
The pound rose to as high as $1.5968, its highest since early February, stopping just short of $1.5970, the 61.8 percent retracement of its move down from a high in August 2009 of $1.7044 to May's low of $1.4225.
Analysts and traders, however, believe sterling will face stiff resistance on the approach to $1.60, both because it is a key psychological level and due to reported options barriers around there.
"Sterling has had a really good run recently, but it needs fresh impetus to make a sustainable break above $1.60," said Audrey Childe-Freeman, currency strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman.
By 1527 GMT, the pound was 0.3 percent higher on the day at $1.5939 GBP=D4.* Sterling hits 6-month high of $1.5968 GBP=D4
* Next target $1.5970, strong... more
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