Arguably the worlds oldest working cinema, The Curzon celebrates 100 years of uninterrupted operation this weekend.
It was due to open 5 days earlier but the opening was postponed out of respect for those lost in the Titanic disaster.
(via The Curzon Project)
“She kissed me. I was kissed. All yielding she tossed my hair. Kissed, she kissed me.
Me. And me now.”
Someone must have sent me this or linked to it recently, because it was in my “watch later” list on the Youtubes.
I listened to it three times today already whilst working, I might listen to it again.
“Everybody has that thing when they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that is what people observe.
You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
It’s just extraordinary that we should be given these peculiarities and not content with what we were given we create a whole other set. Our whole guise is like giving a sign to the world to think of us a certain way.
But there’s a point between what you want people to know about you and what you can’t help people knowing about you, and that has to do with. what I have always called, the gap between intention and effect.”
OK, I’ve had a cup of tea and a slice of cake so I’m slightly calmer now, I’ll explain a bit more fully:
I work at BDH making CGI for television, which can involve making all sorts of things, from visualizing thought to animating bouncing sex toys.
Last year we were lucky enough to work on a miraculous programme called “Wonders of the Universe“, hosted by Professor Brian Cox, and produced by the BBC.
For someone who grew up on Carl Sagan, Star Trek and Doctor Who it was a very special experience for me personally.
I was largely responsible for star surfaces, coronal loops and solar flares.
So now the work we did has been nominated for a Visual Effects award at the Television Craft BAFTAs, alongside Great Expectations, Inside the Human Body, and… DOCTOR WHO.
So today couldn’t really get more awesome.
(There is 15 minute edit of just the work we did here, with music by Timo Baker (full screen, head phones on please)):
and a lovely playlist of clips from the actual series here:
in case you are unfamiliar with it’s magic.
Did I mention I just had cake?
see also:
reblogged from mollycrabapple:
“I get this question alot, and I never know how to answer it. Truth is, I don’t know anything BUT working. It’s what I breathe, what goes through my veins. If I don’t work, rent doesn’t get paid. Nor do I really know what to do with myself.
When I’m inspired, I follow my inspiration. When I could give a fuck, I draw a thousand hands or every historical figure I ever took a shine too. If you want to be an artist (or anyone for whom their job is their vocation, and who is their own boss), you need to just work, long and hard, whether or not you feel like it.
That discipline will let you capture fleeting inspiration and turn it into something as inspiring to others. And it will keep you going when you’re not inspired at all.
Good luck!”
Paul Greer 