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Harry Potter and The Cup of Wiz – Dee-Vee-Dee (Region: Blueberry)

Russ — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:36:12 +0000

The astonishing true story of how an orphaned boy, sent to boarding school, recedes into an inner world where he imagines himself as a famous wizard winning dangerous magical tournament and getting the girls while, in reality he is bullied and tormented by his classmates and exiled from most levels of social interaction among his peers. Young Mr potter finally comes to find friendship in the unlikely form of a life-size teddybear of a ginger child, normally used for stress-relief ginger boxing, that he names “Ronny”.

Harry and Ronny have many wonderful adventures until, in an argument about who gets to win the chamberpot, playfully dubbed the cup of wiz, one evening. Ronny brutally beats Harry and forces him to drink from the cup of wiz. As a last act of retaliation against his cuddly opressor, Harry ties Ronny up while he sleeps and sets fire to the bed, accidentally burning the school down in the process and killing two students and five faculty members.

Harry is finally imprisoned for his crimes in Azerbaijan prison where he is regularly beaten and raped by an old lifer named ‘Big Ron’ proving once and for all the existence of god.
What a relief.

Format: Doovde

Region: Blueberry (Do you remember when it mattered what region DVD you bought?)

Stickman Hitman

Russ — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:42:04 +0000

Here’s a short silen movie I made on my iPhone as a kind of proof-of-concept.
Stick Man Hit Man – Sometimes the little guy’s just gotta die.

I made still images with my highly creative finger-painting like skills and an App called SketchBook by Autodesk (The people who own nearly all the cinematic 3D software on the market nowadays) — It’s quite good; Autodesk sketchbook has layered image editing (there’s a limit of 6 layers to conserve system resources), configurable paintbrushes and can even save layered images in photoshop PSD format — No this isn’t an advert – I was just impressed.
Once I had my images built, I strung them together using another impressive app called ReelDirector which is pretty neat video editing app. I added some transitions and a bit of motion to a couple of images (pan and zoom) and uploaded to youtube without using a computer at all.

Here it is:

Pretty good eh?

A couple of interesting things I discovered:
Firstly SketchBook can only make images in one resolution – a portrait image size that fits neatly on the iPhone screen.
Secondly Reel Director sets the final output frame size of the produced movie by the screen resolution of the first image or movie added which is why my sketchbook images turned it into a portrait movie.

Ken Korda Reviews Baby Baby Baby by Joss Stone

Russ — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:19:38 +0000

It’s always a pleasure to see some silliness from Adam Buxton. This super review of Joss Stone’s Baby Baby Baby is classic Buckles in his Ken Korda guise.

I’ve got to admit, the first 15 seconds are possibly the funniest start to a youtube video I’ve ever seen.

Truly awesome.

London Eye Cruise

Russ — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:33:05 +0000

Just a small snippet of what I did on my holidays. A cruise on the London Eye, complete with panoramic views and hoards of tourists… like me.

London Eye Cruise

T-Mobile Dance 2

Russ — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:06:00 +0000

T-mobile Dance 2 video!
Okay, maybe not, but I was inspired to video this when it happened for you guys.

T-mobile dance 2