Last Straw

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I’ve just been updating some photos on Flickr and it struck me how much we record and photograph children’s lives these days. Looking back on photos and video is a great way to reminisce. But what if one day you could video record your entire life and play it back? Freaky.

Edit: Watched a film called Code 46 the other day, in which you can upload your memories to a device and play them back in video.

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Spooky. Click through for the video.

This a time lapse I put together of a social housing project I worked on in London. The photos were taken over a period of two and half years with various cameras by a friend from his canal boat moored in the adjacent basin. Each photo had to be cropped and straightened by eye before being stitched together to form the video.

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May I present Neptune Storm by Night Star Fireworks.
Credit goes to Elisabeth for breathtaking camera work, Kristin for unrivalled spectatorship and yours truly for deftly wick lighting skills.

Channel 4’s Dispatches last night: Do You Know What’s in Your Breakfast? A reminder that, in capitalism, it’s not the job of the food industry to provide good healthy food. Their job is to make as much money by whatever means necessary, even if that means sneaking copious amounts of saturated fat, sugar and salt into [...]

This is a clip from Fragile Paradise, the first in a series of documentaries by the BBC called South Pacific.
This is the first video I’ve posted using the new <video> tag of HTML5, which does away with the need for browser plugins (e.g. Quicktime, Flash and Realplayer). You do, however, need a modern browser such as Firefox, Safari or [...]

Sirocco the Kakapo, a native parrot of New Zealand, gets frisky. An extract from Stephen Fry’s and Mark Carwardine’s new BBC documentary, Last Chance to See:

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Neda Agha-Soltan is a young women from Iran who was shot dead while protesting against repression in Iran. She has a page on Wikipedia. Photos and video and of her death have been widely broadcast by the Western media, with copious amounts of faux sympathy.
She deserves our sympathy because she appears to be a victim [...]