Archive for July, 2008
Memories and sunshine
Monday, July 28th, 2008
It’s been a really hot weekend in London, no complaints at all. Time spent swimming, in the park and having long lunches. Lots of friends and family, it was loads of fun.
But the weekend went by too quickly. Suddenly it was Monday morning.
It’s exactly the sort of weekend that I will need to remember in about 6 months time to help me get through the January cold.
So what’s the best way to remember it? Take lots of photos? Write a diary (!)? Just commit it to memory?
Not quite sure I know the definitive answer, but I’ve got a few ideas. Answers on a postcard.
I met the walrus
Monday, July 14th, 2008
Beautiful video - here’s the background, straight from the youtube site. Better seen in high resolution on the youtube site actually.
“In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon’s every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon’s boundless wit, and timeless message.”
