What are the most significant differences and similarities between Englishmen and Scotsmen? – Part 2

January 26, 2011
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Hoping everyone had a wonderful Burns night, here is the second instalment of the Englishmen/Scotsmen podcast extravaganza. Click here to play Part 2

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What are the most significant differences and similarities between Englishmen and Scotsmen? – Part 1

January 25, 2011
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Indeed, who has not pondered this question at one time or another?  Well, the answer, I suspect, is anyone from England.  It is almost certainly the prerogative of the Scots alone to wish to define and differentiate, although this pattern appears to be taking some measure of hold south of the border. Let us not [...]

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There’s a moose loose aboot this hoose

January 21, 2011
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When you stumble across a real, old classic , the sharing prerogative kicks in. The delivery is sublime and instantly familiar, and anyway there aren’t enough moose gags out there nowadays. Usual story; moose gets fame, equality rights issues appear, messy personal life, red tops go anti-moose…you know the rest. But, hey, that was just [...]

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Undercity

January 14, 2011
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Urban historian, Steve Duncan and Director/Cinematographer, Andrew Wonder explore the underground world of New York City. It’s the mixture of the fear of being caught coupled with a passionate interest in the history of the City’s architecture – from the sewers up – that makes this a compelling watch.

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The Ashes, the series, the lot…

January 7, 2011
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This is not the usual fare for VOTW, but neither is winning the Ashes down under. We’ve been following Graeme Swann’s video diaries during the series and he appears to have a genuine interest in the power of the moving image – or am I still trying to justify this VOTW? Anyway this link will [...]

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“Things To Come” (1936)

December 17, 2010
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This week’s Video of the week (VOTW) might be the greatest film that I have never seen!  I stumbled across this little treasure in the US based, internet archive – simply called The Internet Archive – whilst I was searching for something else (as you do). ‘Things to Come’ is completely legally free for you [...]

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Video on the web…finally

December 14, 2010
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Back in 2000 I had neither heard of, nor anticipated, any of the following: blogging; iPhones (or i anything else for that matter); wii; web 2.0; Vimeo; Simon Cowell etc., etc. But the web did exist and it felt like connection speeds would take-off pretty quickly and with that the demand for video on the [...]

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Apollo Run – Stars

December 10, 2010
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Never heard of this band but just fell in love with the video. Must have been a tricky and extremely time-consuming shoot.

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Out of Sync

December 3, 2010
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Video of the Week has, this week, gone for its first short film. Out of Sync is a Dutch short that had us drooling over the grading and sound. We might still be arguing at VOTW HQ about whether or not the ending offers hope but whatever, this is a terrific shortie. Out of Sync [...]

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5 reasons why companies need online video

December 3, 2010
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It is always great to read an article about our business sector – corporate video – that talks up its economic relative dynamism. The BBC article, Corporate video conquers the internet (Fiona Graham, December 3rd 2010), brings me out in a warm glow which in the current snowy weather conditions – and icy economic climate [...]

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