Sunday, 13 September 2026

Kiki Lost in Translation

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  Not this.    I feel I'm only just beginning to get Miyazaki. Some context: Kiki – for this is a scene from Miyazaki's 1989 Kiki...
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Friday, 28 August 2026

YouTube is probably dying BUT THERE'S A TWIST!

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   Well exactly, Man Carrying Thing.    I think – and this is a statistic I heard before they recently started counting a single frame as a ...
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Monday, 17 August 2026

I Demand these Fifity-Four Seconds of Grange Hill be Watched, then Universally Celebrated.

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 My strongest memory by far of the time Grange Hill went to Chessington Zoo is of Annette Firman negging a posh, ginger kid from between th...
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The sun again but the world will never

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 Unlike almost exactly twenty-seven years previously, there wasn't a cloud in the sky when I clicked publish on my previous post with a...
Wednesday, 12 August 2026

The safest way to watch the eclipse

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Is probably just to watch the last one, so here it is. I was ushering at the BFI on August the 11th 1999, and watched the solar eclipse fro...
Monday, 3 August 2026

By the Picking of my Thumbnail

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Hello friends/fellow students. As anyone who's subscribed to my YouTube channel might know, I've started a second one . And there, ...
Saturday, 1 August 2026

Those Little Grey Cells

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 well, A4-sized grey cells    When traditional paint-and-trace animation was explained to me as a child, in arts programmes of old, I was ne...
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