These rhubarbs, only 79 cents.

 

A brief fixation on Australian local supermarket adverts from the 80s led me to this handful of beauties. I'm particularly struck by the integration of early motion graphics, and the blunt use of typography. Providing stimulus for some moving image I will be working on with Hugh soon. Nearly bought a JVC video cassette camera in Brighton at the weekend which looked like Megatron's ballsack. Dude didn't know if it worked, useless thespian. Hopefully my fellow Freecyclers can offer me something more appropriate than half a fucking ikea table.

Chuck Hoberman

 

Looking at expansion compression of man-made mechanisms.

VIDEO HERE

BIBLIOMANIA

I feel that I will, not out of choice, become this man in later life.

KALEIDOSCOPIC PAINTY FACES

LLAMAS AND BAD DANCING

DOODY//

A real gem from the depths of Youtube.

Dedicated to Justin.

NIGHT CAP //

Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe is genius. I've been trawling his back catalogue every night, slugging through all six series of the cynic's reviews. Him being so blunt, to the point of cringing at the accuracy of his strip-downs, means that I can somewhat relate to his showers of abuse aimed at the shallow world of crap television.

Acutely topical and disturbingly angry, Brooker interrupts his sofa onslaught with hilariously scathing caricatures of some of the biggest c**ts on the box. (See above.)

I strongly recommend you also watch his new chatshow/gameshow/pre-recorded butchering You Have Been Watching. Catch it on 4OD HERE

Here's a snippet//
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvst&v=2sckkrxYSNk

LIQUIDS RESEARCH

Since Justine and I first thought about making a short film together, we have been putting our heads together to find a subject that is unassumingly mundane but can be transformed into a spectacle that arouses intrigue and beauty. These are a few of the films I have come across in the past few days after playing with a ferrofluid at the Science Museum last week.

Liquids, obviously are ubiquitous, but it is not the aesthetics of these experiments that really have us hooked; it's the unusual physical properties that they hold. For example salt water will not freeze until it makes contact with air and cornstarch paste possesses the appearance of a liquid but the impact of a solid.

Today, I bought cornstarch and began to play with the substance that is known as gloop, and Oobleck, which has been adopted by popular culture from a Dr. Seuss. It is scientifically known as a non-Newtonian fluid, which is an allusion to the ambiguous nature of the substance's viscosity. Oobleck and other 'shear thinckening fluids' are being tested on their effectiveness to stop bullets.