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LBP, 1 Hour In

flipper01 — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:42:13 +0000

After an hour’s play we we are asked to decorate our pod… oh dear, we made a bit of a mess, maybe one too many donkey tails? The eyeballs on springs really pull the room together though.

Unto Others

flipper01 — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:32:00 +0000

Oh fancy, we’re making a little film. When I say “we” I mean us, our mate Richard Johnson, a director called Chris Klockner, a couple of actors called Roy Carroll and Frank Fitzpatrick, and a crew of about 15 people willing to give up their free time to make it with us. And when I say “making” I mean we shot it during Sunday night/Monday morning in a car park in Kilburn. We’re going into edit it tonight, and once thats done then we have somebody doing CGI and grading and music for us… so it’s not done yet. But even so, we only came up with the idea 2 weeks ago in our kitchen.

Here’s the obligatory set of too many photos of the night.

The film is initially going to be entered into the BAFTA 60 Seconds of Fame competition which has a deadline of 4th January, so we’re rushing to get it all done, but it’s all on track so far. I won’t go into any real details about the plot, we’ll save that surprise for later.

As I’ve already said in a few emails, thanks to all involved and all that jazz.

My life: The Adventure…

flipper02 — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:46:00 +0000

Bought a new frying pan, tested it by toasting some panettone with a tiny bit of butter (our little secret). Seemed to work.

I know, it’s ALL rock and roll now-a-days.

More good advice

flipper02 — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:18:00 +0000

Heed the warning.

Good advice

flipper02 — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:06:00 +0000

Smart list on the back of Creative Review this month from the walls of Tate Media director Will Gompertz’s office. Of course item 7 need not apply to The Flippers.

Fangoria approaches

flipper01 — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:38:00 +0000

The canopy is up, rehearsals are going well, many may still die.

6 days till Fangoria.

Have your costumes and explosives ready.

The Reward Helmet

flipper01 — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 19:46:00 +0000

Sometimes, when asked to perform certain tasks, the Boob needs this special helmet that keeps his reward in view at all times.

Big Blue Shitter

flipper01 — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:50:00 +0000

Now we can’t all design rockets or robot cats, somebody has to put some thought into the humble shit seat. This one (found in the Big Blue Hotel, Blackpool) has enjoyed some real TLC during the design phase. Points to note:

Low seat for good ‘exiting’.
Wide seat for comfort.
heavyily tapered seat, also for good ‘exiting’ as it, well how can i put it? Allows for a good ‘parting’.

In other news we also took maybe more photos than we should have during our weekend in Blackpool to celebrate Auntie Chells 70th. If you’ve got a few days to spare why not have a browse?

Children of Men

flipper01 — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:17:00 +0000

So we finally got round to watching Children of Men last night as we taped it off the telly on our sky box thingy months ago, and oh my is it good. OK so the plot is a bit predictable, and some of the dialogue and acting could be better but the direction is sweet. A great attention to detail in the art direction (check out the 2012 Olympics jumper worn towards the end of the film by Clive and the Guantanamo Bay pastiche in the ‘fugee center) along with massive long hand held single shot action sequences make for a genuinely believable vision of the future. There are no sweeping CG aerial camera angles of cityscapes, people don’t all listen to ambient trance, America has blown up, nothing flys that shouldn’t fly, there’s no overly elaborate computer systems – ok, maybe a few odd looking computer screens, but nobody has to wear special gloves to operate anything… except that one guy on the games console, ok it’s not perfect but I liked it alright? sheesh, you people. It’s even got a dog track in it, and no, the dogs are not robots.

Blogger video player? WTF?

flipper01 — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:11:00 +0000