Unattended Articles

   To think there was a time I balked at the thought of putting my face on this blog. But here's a little record of my business trip to ...

 As America marks Bonfire Night just as we marked Independence Day, let's let it happen and just crawl down a hole, because it's all...

     And I think I may have found my people. Please don't alert them. My French isn't good enough to say for certain whether this ad...

     You may have seen this substantially meme-ified pig before, in its original untouched-up form . Online reactions to the film have been ...

 Using this blog simply to regurgitate videos from the BBC Archive does feel a little lazy, but it keeps putting out such treasure, and I wa...

     "Yeah, I'll be evil, I'll be the Bond villain." I had totally forgotten about Martin Shkreli! Do you remember Martin...

    Speaking of motherhood ...  The Space Parliament of Asgardia (the hard-drive orbiting Earth, chairman: Lembit Öpik) has just had its sev...

 Grey skies as I write this. Finally. The kind of darkness visible that turns all light golden. Here are a couple of frames from Ian Hubert...

 Almost as surprisingly, it was filmed in portrait mode.   A single camera/projector shot a pinwheel of light at the subject, and changes of...

 Last month I spent three nights in Bucharest. Beyond the flight times in my diary and the self tape I'd made pretending to look sad at ...

 We've all learnt to laugh into our arms.     I've adored John Oliver on here before , but never been able to squeeze in how much I...

   April the Second marks one year since I decided to start reading aloud Daniel Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year" on You...

 For April the First, my favourite accidental physicists "The Corridor Crew" loose their visual-effects-dissecting acumen on the ...

... in five chapters. While the Government attempts to ban protests that make noise and historians who teach history, here's fifty minut...

  "I would describe myself as nicely dressed, and pretty evil."    I'm not sure I've ever written anything that wasn't...

 Here's a little film I really love, originally made for Door Number 5 of Gemma Brockis' now absent Oddvent Calendar . Like all cont...

 I've just rewatched this video to confirm that Richard Herring's interview here with Brian Blessed may be the greatest one-man show...

 "I am very interested in lifts. I love original old relay logic lifts, especially the very advanced relay systems which can contain...

    "who'll have you."      I have so many takeaways from this video – I always have takeaways from Natalie Wynn's work , ...

 They are the best of places. They are the worst of places. They are the realistion of dreams. They are the stuff of nightmares. They are re...