Friday 28 December 2012

DSO Channel 69 The End

DSO 2012 Channel 69
Audio Ltd RMS 2040 Channel 69
Great idea can't wait. Just a few days to go to DSO and then my sets of Audio Ltd RMS 2040 need £2000 worth of re-boarding to function on the tiny sliver that is channel 38.
What's next? Maybe sell off infra red or the colour blue. Replace it with a bit of mauve perhaps. 

Thursday 27 December 2012

Grimes Vanessa Official Video


My favorite music video from 2012 even though it was actually released April 2011
(must have cost £20 and the camera never moves) 
by ARBUTUS RECORDS and HIPPOS IN TANKS.
director: GRIMES
director of photography: JOHN LONDONO
stylist: MARILIS CARDINAL
dancers: ALLY MACKINNON, ASHLEY OBSCURA, CAROLINE DUTKA, CLAIRE BOUCHER, EMILY KAI BOCK, JANE PENNY, MARILIS CARDINAL, MING LIN, MIRIAM GALLOU
music: GRIMES

Sunday 23 December 2012

Robin Windsor and Kristina Rihanoff

Strictly Come Dancing
Strictly Come Dancing  Robin Windsor and Kristina Rihanoff
Press launch of Burn the Floor with Robin Windsor and Kristina Rihanoff

Filmed by Paria Kamyab in London using a Canon DSLR   Interview recorded using a Schoeps M4 and 744T

Picture supplied by Sam Palmer at AKA Media

watch some mad crazy french film making Todor + Petru

Wednesday 21 November 2012

Sunday 18 November 2012

London W10 Photos


Photos: Roger Mayne (1955-1957)
Music: "Bad Penny Blues", Humphrey Lyttleton

Some fantastic photos of W10 in Southam Street from the mid to late 50's. Photographed by Roger Mayne. The construction of Trellick Tower resulted in most of Southam Street's demolition. Though in many ways very little has changed 

More W10 see the largest Gang at Notting Hill Carnival


Wednesday 14 November 2012

A Chorus Line London Palladium Auditions

Chorus Line Auditions London Palladium
Back Stage at the London Palladium A Chorus Line
On stage at the London Palladium with the hopefuls auditioning for A Chorus Line

Auditions with Baayork Lee A Chorus Line London Palladium
Baayork Lee London Palladium
Original cast memeber Baayork Lee casts a knowing eye over the hopefuls at the London Palladium auditions for 
A Chorus Line


Wednesday 24 October 2012

Life and Deaf is a Winner

Life and Deaf Sounfd Recordist Jonathan Ridge
Life and Deaf
Life and Deaf  has won "the Ritter Sport Film Prize worth EUR 3,000, donated by Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co.
Berlin's Babylon Cinema  It will now be entered into the Berlin Interfilm Festival . Shown now on BBC2 BBC1 @ the South Bank Queen Elizabeth Hall  and Berlin's Babylon Cinema




Wednesday 10 October 2012

Sunday 30 September 2012

Chorus of Disapproval Press Night Rob Brydon

Chorus of Disapproval Rob Brydon
Rob Brydon with TrevorNunn and Nigel Harman
Rob Brydon, Trevor Nunn and Nigel Harman
Press night after party Chorus of Disapproval

Press Night Rob Brydon Chorus of Disapproval
Rob Brydon Press Night Chorus of Disapproval
Rob Brydon doing a radio interview at the press night after party following playing the lead in Chorus of Disapproval at the Harold Pinter Theatre Panton Street London 
A Chorus of Disapproval

The end film with Jimmy Carr, Harry Enfield, Julia Davis, Marcia Warren, Ronnie Corbett, Julian Barratt, David Baddiel, Hayley Tamaddon, David Tennant, Lynda Baron, Rob Brydon, Nigel Harman, Ashley Jensen and Bryn Terfel

Thursday 27 September 2012

Press Night for Let It Be in London

Press night Let it Be Paparazzi
 paparazzi
Press Night Cilla Black
Cilla Black
Claire Sweeney and Daniel Riley
 Claire Sweeney
 Ian Hislop
Red Ken on the Red Carpet
Ken Livingstone and Daughters

Red carpet press night for Let It Be at the Prince of Wales
Leicester Square London with after party at 
DSTRKT Rupert Street WC2H 7BY 
Crazy Horse London Forever Crazy 

Tuesday 25 September 2012

Catnip: Egress to Oblivion?


Funniest film I've watched in a long time - film by 
Jason Willis (.com) 
The website is pretty cool too with lots of photos and stuff from Arizona

Thursday 20 September 2012

Crazy Horse Forever Crazy Press Night London


Paps get pappin at Crazy Horse press night 99 Upper Ground, Forever Crazy South Bank, London SE1 9PU

The Parisian line up from Crazy Horse
Forever Crazy in London after press night

The Final Result
Presented by Esther Shephard, Directed by Sam Palmer and filmed by Simon Gooden
Rob Brydon Chorus of Disapproval

Sunday 9 September 2012

Open Horizon and Filter by Gravis, Russell Houghten




Two glossy promos by Russell Houghten. Open Horizon has time lapse grip work intercut with skating The Gravis one has some real close up steady camera work of skateboarding through Tokyo.

Tuesday 28 August 2012

Gang filmed at Notting Hill Carnival

Adhering to the common troupe of gang culture. "Dem Filthy Babylon" gang members are heavily influenced by the mores of genre film. These two gang members filmed here at Notting Hill Carnival in London. Give an insight into their fantasy world, living out their delusions as if in a Sergio Leone western.


Gang members reaching for their weapons 


Photos taken at Notting Hill Carnival 2012

See more of this Gang operating in Notting Hill Carnival


Monday 27 August 2012

Gangs operating in Notting Hill Carnival

Gang members have been operating in and around the Notting Hill Carnival for decades. Acting as a law unto themselves the steamer gangs can be identified by their all black clothing and their willingness to show their weapons in plain sight. As can be seen by "Dem Filthy Babylon" gang member in the middle of this photo 

Members of the W10 Steamer Gang known locally as 
"Dem Filthy Babylon"
choose their next victim at Notting Hill Carnival


Another gang member this time attempting to disguise herself as a mid 90s raver. Uses a metal bar which is inserted into the mouth of a large animal then pulled back violently (see the whitening of the knuckles) with leather straps. In a successful attempt at intimidating local residents attending the annual Children's Day at Notting Hill Carnival 

Saturday 25 August 2012

Ultra High Def



One of only 3 Ultra High Def camera in the world

The 8k light sensor


The screen you need to watch the footage on

Below was widely reported in 2010. Now it is an actuallity.

Super Hi-Vision, also known as SHV, Ultra HDTV, 8K, and simply 4320p, is the future of high-def video. With16 times more pixels than 1080p, SHV is incredibly sharp, with lenses and TVs having to be freshly invented to do it justice. The tech is likely a decade away from wide adoption, but progress is being made swiftly: The BBC and Japan's NHK teamed up this week for the first SHV broadcast to be made over the Internet, a performance by The Charlatans.

SHV, proposed as the next standard by the BBC, NHK, and Italy's RAI, -when it was demonstrated in 2003, it used 16 separate HDTV cameras to capture the demo video. These days, there are three cameras, all developed by NHK, that can handle the video's 7680 x 4320 resolution, but for this broadcast, the NHK had to create a customized lens and a 103-inch plasma screen for viewers. Even that screen doesn't quite have the pixel density to display the video properly.

The bigger problem is moving that much data at a reasonable speed. To give an idea of how much data, a 20-minute video requires about four terabytes of space. Other SHV broadcasts have had to drastically compress video and audio to fit the constraints of the connection. SHV requires a lightning-fast 24Gbps link, which isn't widely available; a demonstration in 2006 compressed the 24Gbps down to 180-600Mbps (which, is still crazily fast compared to home Internet in the States. Verizon's FiOS gets about 50-60Mbps, and that's several times faster than most cable services).

NHK hopes the format will start rolling out in bits and pieces, possibly with the first bits coming as soon as the 2012 Olympics, both for BBC archives and possibly for giant public screens. So how long before you can get Super Hi-Vision in your living room? NHK aims to start broadcasting by 2020--although that might be only in Japan, or other countries with equivalent Internet speeds. North America has been quite slow in improving broadband speeds, partly due to infrastructure, partly to cost, and partly because the US is a massive country.

Friday 24 August 2012

AZEALIA BANKS 212 ft LAZY JAY with Lyrics


Hi kids let's learn the words in time for carnival and impress your yummy mummy as she tucks into her vegan falafal 

[Verse 1]
Hey, I can be the answer
I’m ready to dance when the vamp up
And when I hit that dip, get your camera
You could see I been that bitch since the Pamper
And that I am that young sis, the beacon
The bitch who wants to compete and
I could freak a 'fit, that pump with the peep and
You know what your bitch become when her weave in
I just wanna sip that punch with your peeps and
Sit in that lunch if you're treatin'
Kick it with ya bitch who come from Parisian
She know where I get mine from, and the season
Now she wanna lick my plum in the evening
And fit that ton-tongue d-deep in
I guess that cunt getting eaten (4x)
[Verse 2]
I was in the 212
On the uptown A, nigga, you know what’s up or don’t you?
Word to who made ya
I’m a rude bitch, nigga, what are you made up of?
I’m-a eat ya food up, boo
I could bust your eight, I’m-a do one too, fuck ya gon' do?
I want you to make bucks, I'm look right nigga, bet ya do want to fuck…
Fuck him like ya do want to cum
You're gay to get discovered in my two-one-deuce
Cock-a-licking in the water by the blue bayou
Caught the warm goo in your doo-rag too, son?
Nigga, you’re a Kool-Aid dude
Plus your bitch might lick it, wonder who let you come to one-two
With ya doo-doo crew son… fuck are you into, huh?
Niggas better oooh-run-run
You could get shot, homie, if ya do want to
Put ya guns up, tell your crew don’t front
I’m a hoodlum nigga, you know you were too once
Bitch I’m 'bout to blew up too
I’m the one today, I’m the new shit, boo, young Rapunzel
Who are you, bitch, new lunch?
I’m-a ruin you, cunt (4x)
[Bridge]
Ayo (ayo), I heard you're riding with the same tall, tall tale
Telling them you made some (made some)
Saying you're grinding but you ain't going nowhere
Why you procrastinate girl? (-nate girl)
You got a lot, but you just waste all yourself
They'll forget your name soon (name soon)
And won't nobody be to blame but yourself, yeah
[Hook]
What you gon' do when I appear?
W-when-when I premiere?
Bitch, the end of your lives are near
This shit been mine, mine (x2)
[Verse 3]
Bitch, I’m in the 212
With the fifth cocked nigga, it's the two-one-zoo
Fuck you gon' do, when your goon sprayed up?
Bet his bitch won't get him, betcha you won't do much
See, even if you do want to bust
Your bitch’ll get you cut and touch you crew up too, Pop
You're playing with your butter like your boo won’t chew cock
The gun, too -- where you do eat poon, hon?
I’m fucking with you, cutie-q
What’s your dick like homie, what are you into, what’s the run, dude?
Where do you wake up? Tell your bitch keep hating, I’m the new one too, huh?
See, I remember you when you were
The young new face, but you do like to slumber, don’t you?
Now your boo up too, hon
I'm-a ruin you, cunt

Friday 17 August 2012

Wednesday 8 August 2012

Realität


Realität is a research and experimentation lab founded in Mexico City. It involves digital media, music, architecture, and sound art
define( "HACKPACT" ) =
"1. Write some code each day for one month
// 2. Document your work
// 3. Share it" 

Tuesday 31 July 2012

Skylarking Riddim Mix


Ft: Big Youth, I Roy, Prince Jazzbo, Lone Ranger, Horance Andy, Al Campbell, Dillinger, Trinity, Erol Dunkley,  Tappa Zukie, Tony Tuff, Barrington Levy

Friday 27 July 2012

Thursday 5 July 2012

Sound Devices 744T

Using Sound Devices 744T in the field for C4
2 Sound Devices 744T with RMS 2040 radios and Sound Devices 302 mixer
Recording sound for C4. Using 3 Schoeps CMIT,  3 Schoeps MK 40, 1 Radio mic Audio Ltd RMS 2040 with Tram TR50. Boom via Sound Devices 302 wireless with Sennheiser SKP. All fed back to 2 Sound Devices 744T with the help of another Sound Devices 302. Boom recorded to both recorders and also sent back to main camera via another Sennheiser SKP. 

watch some lovely animation Dubstep Dispute 73secs

Thursday 31 May 2012

Elton John at Billy Elliot 3000 performance


Sir Elton John does the red carpet thing at 
Billy Elliot the musical
3000th performance gala night
at the Victoria Palace Theatre 

Tuesday 22 May 2012

Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision


Part of a BBC Omnibus documentary
"Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision".
Some jolly nice English chaps meet 
Dr Gonzo. 1978
Imagine getting this on the BBC now  

Friday 16 March 2012

Sweenty Todd with Micheal Ball and Imelda Staunton

Filming Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton

Kitchen set from Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd at the Adelphi Theatre The Strand London


The score for Sweeney Todd in the orchestra pit at The Adelphi Theatre