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HBO Max and Paramount+: What It Might Mean For Sports
Today the deal was done, and Paramount took over Warner Bros. Discovery in a massive deal that has much of Hollywood quaking. There were some last minute wrinkles with a deal being struck a couple of weeks ago with a group of US Attorneys General, with the general view being that they folded and didn’t…
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A Fruitless Early Morning
The alarm was set for 4.00am. I’d bought some Baader solar paper. I’d made a solar filter for my camera, essentially following these instructions. I was already for the last Transit of Venus that’ll be visible from Earth until 2117, and therefore, my lifetime. Sadly, I hadn’t counted on the wonderful British summer. Actually, that’s…
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The Righteousness of the Twitterati
Actually, that title is inaccurate. What I really mean is the righteousness of a certain “mob mentality” on social media, and Twitter in particular. I refer, of course, to the apparent view that yesterday’s coverage of the Jubilee by BBC television was simply awful. If you were to venture onto Twitter yesterday – and today…
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Prometheus
I wrote recently about my travails in trying to pre-book a 2D screening of Prometheus. Come the release, there have been more 2D screenings made available than were listed for pre-booking. So I ended up heading over to the Hackney Picturehouse – a journey made considerably more complicated by Greater Anglia using the Jubilee Weekend…
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Screen Printing
I spent today at Print Club London on their beginners’ screen printing workshops. Eight or so of us learnt some of the basics of screen printing. You can see my results above and below from some artwork I brought with me. It was really interesting learning about the different techniques that you can apply even…
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The Photographers’ Gallery
Tomorrow evening across Europe, millions of people will be watching the annual festival of… well… music I guess, that is the Eurovision Song Contest. There have already been a couple of semi-finals, with the big show happening in Baku tomorrow night. So it was interesting in the same week as this is happening to go…
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How Should I See Prometheus?
I’m an enormous fan of Sir Ridley Scott, and can claim to have seen pretty much everything he’s directed. Yes, even the horror that was A Good Year. So with Prometheus imminent, with personal anticipation levels matched only by Dark Knight Rises, and perhaps Skyfall, I decided tonight that I really ought to sort out…
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RAJAR Q1 2012
It’s May, and that means it’s time for another round of radio numbers and RAJAR. I’m not sure that there’s a completely compelling over-arching story this time around. Nationally, Radio 1 has slipped a little in reach and hours, but Radio 2 has done well with a decent increase in reach to nearly 14.6m adults,…
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Damien Hirst
A friend organised a trip to Tate Modern to see the new Damien Hirst exhibition. To be honest, I’m not really a fan of his. Partly it’s the distaste I have for the overtly commercial imperatives placed on his work, either by him or others, and partly it’s the nature of it. You hear stories…
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Rolling Thunder
listen to ‘Storm Passing By’ on Audioboo I just can’t help myself when there’s a storm. I need to get out there and experience it. Sadly, this one passed away just that bit too far in the north, and I missed the initial hail. Still, here’s a binaural recording of some of the rolling thunder.…
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The Big Ride
Watch in HD over on Vimeo Yesterday, I joined several thousand others riding around some closed streets of Central London as part of the LCC organised Big Ride. In the week before Londoners vote for who should be the next Mayor, this was a massive protest to ensure that the person who does sit in…
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The ZX Spectrum at 30
While sometimes you have to rely on Wikipedia or somewhere else on the internet to work out how old something is, that’s never been a problem with the ZX Spectrum. It came out in 1982, and you know that because the first thing you saw when you switched it on was “© 1982 Sinclair Research…
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Margate
I recently went down to Margate to visit the Turner Contemporary gallery. Very nice it is too, and those HS1 trains whizz down there pretty fast from St Pancras if you’re in London. Anyway, I clearly took some photos while I was there (And so did David Bailey according to an interview on Front Row…
Hadrian’s Wall
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