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• A Seriously Killer Song

  So mysterious and gloomy I need Morrisey to explain it to me…

  Posted by Madame Raymond 26.04.13 • View Comments

  

• Staggering Beauty Sausage

  What is going on here? Nice though.

  staggeringbeauty.com

  Posted by Madame Raymond 21.11.12 • View Comments

  

• I'm liking SOLIPSIST

  SOLIPSIST from Andrew Huang on Vimeo.

  WINNER at SLAMDANCE 2012 of the Special Jury Prize for Experimental Short

  via Vimeo

  Posted by Madame Raymond 03.07.12 • View Comments

  

• I enjoyed being Henry

  

  I enjoyed being Henry in his interactive film :)

  Posted by Madame Raymond 05.03.12 • View Comments

  

• Haunting music from a slice of tree!

  A record player that plays slices of wood by Bartholomäus Traubeck. Modified record player, wood, sleeves. 2011.

  Beautiful.

  via https://twitter.com/tbertz

  Posted by Madame Raymond 20.01.12 • View Comments

  

• Run Rabbit Run!!

  Maybe it’s the mood I’m in …but I enjoyed this bunny tale …lovely grade :)

  Mixomatosis – A short film.
  Dir: Nicholas Ray Rutter & George Ancock
  via: FutureShorts

  Posted by Madame Raymond 05.01.12 • View Comments

  

• 1,000's of stickers vs 1000's of kids!

  

  This is what happens when you give thousands of stickers to thousands of kids.
  via thisiscolossal.com

  Part of the The Obliteration Room installation.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 03.01.12 • View Comments

  

• Meet composer Edward Cowie and his colour pencils

  
  
  A cute little film of nature – seen through the eyes of renowned British composer Edward Cowie. Including inspired coloured pencil drawings, drawn in his small studio at a rural retreat.
  
  
  Ed’s website is here: edward-cowie.com

  Posted by Madame Raymond 22.11.11 • View Comments

  

• Why not meet Baby Bang?

  

  Meet Baby Bang in London on the ASOS Interactive Urban Tour:

  He’s a 16-year-old Street Dancer specializing in Popping. Since 2007, he has competed in different battles all over Europe, including Sweden, Norway, France, England and Italy.

  Loads of brilliant visual trickery work going on here. Nice work all round.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 07.10.11 • View Comments

  

• Masterclass Blast from Sir Terry Gilliam's Past

  A brilliant tutorial from Terry Gilliam and Bob Godfrey on the Do It Yourself Animation Show from 1974. Who cares about copyright – lets do more art!

  Posted by Madame Raymond 15.09.11 • View Comments

  

• I've Wrangled me a man!

  

  Enjoy unzipping this man on Wranglers Blue Bell site.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 11.07.11 • View Comments

  

• I want to do a Suwappu!

  Oooh Augmented reality fun from Berg London.
  
  
  via: http://berglondon.com/blog/

  Posted by Madame Raymond 08.04.11 • View Comments

  

• SXSW - A Brief History of Title Design

  A Brief History of Title Design from Ian Albinson on Vimeo.

  nice

  Posted by Madame Raymond 17.03.11 • View Comments

  

• In Praise of Sister Rosetta Tharpe

  

  Hendrix guitar picking, lesbian loving, ahead of her time heroine, better than Aretha Franklin singing, Godmother of it all. Ladies and Gentlemen, Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
  
  
  via BBC Four for a while.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 17.01.11 • View Comments

  

• Skins Naked Ambition

  A discreet shout out for my favourite character in Skins series 5! Well she did do work experience here at BDH :)
  
  
  Happy landing x

  Posted by Madame Raymond 05.01.11 • View Comments

  

• The Joy of Stats!?

  This clip is from The Joy of Stats on BBC Four presented by Hans Rosling. This is now one of the fastest trending viral videos on the planet. Not bad for a show about stats!
  
  
  On BBC iPlayer for a few days here.

  Made by Wingspan makers of Ian Hislop’s Do-Gooders.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 16.12.10 • View Comments

  

• ...another peak into the brilliant mind of Adam Curtis?

  

  A wonderful experiment from the excellent Adam Curtis blog called: THE STRANGE DEATH OF POLITICAL ENGLAND
  
  Another mix of archive and music, this time capturing the drugs, sex and politics of 1970. I forgot about Bunny Girls – they’re just weird! Especially when a bunch of them almost get run over by Hugh Hefner’s plane?!

  Posted by Madame Raymond 22.11.10 • View Comments

  

• Tony Wilson's Headstone

  

  In death as in life: Peter Saville and Ben Kelly’s memorial to their friend and collaborator Anthony H Wilson is three years late, but it was worth the wait.

  via Creative Review

  Posted by Madame Raymond 27.10.10 • View Comments

  

• The Seven Sins of England - still fresh!

  Still fresh after a couple of years.
  
  
  In The Seven Sins of England from Diverse Productions, real-life hoodies, binge-drinkers and chavs deliver the authentic words of 11th century binge-drinkers, Edwardian yobs, Elizabethan xenophobes and 17th-century hooligans in this recreation of historical ‘chavvery’.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 11.10.10 • View Comments

  

• Coastal Erosion - take it to the edge!

  

  An excellent exhibition of Julian Perry’s Coastal Erosion paintings starts Oct 13th.
  
  
  Austin Desmond Fine Art
  68/69 Great Russeel Street
  London

  Posted by Madame Raymond 07.10.10 • View Comments

  

• Flipboard for iPad - it's the future

  

  Flipboard on iPad?
  
  
  What do you think?

  Posted by Madame Raymond 27.07.10 • View Comments

  

• An Extraodinary Prospect

  

  An irresistible sneak preview of Julian Perry’s inspired new paintings to appear this Autumn.

  More of Julian’s work can be found here: Austin Desmond Fine Art
  Pied Bull Yard, Gt Russell St London.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 27.05.10 • View Comments

  

• 2 billion views a day... and counting.

  Happy 5th Birthday YouTube!
  
  

  Posted by Madame Raymond 19.05.10 • View Comments

  

• The Unfinshed Swan - Splat!

  The Unfinished Swan - Tech Demo 9/2008 from Ian Dallas on Vimeo.

  SPLAT! SPLAT!

  The Unfinished Swan is a first-person painting game set in an entirely white world. Players can splatter paint to help them find their way through an unusual garden.
  
  
  To a couple of years old, the game is still in development and no release plans have been announced. You can track the game’s development on Giant Sparrow’s blog.
  
  
  via Tom @ Beef

  Posted by Madame Raymond 14.05.10 • View Comments

  

• Need a Champloo?

  White Caps Trail (Champloo.co.uk) from Wilkie Branson on Vimeo.

  The brilliant Bristol based Champloo – their name is from a Japanese word that means ‘to mix unusual combinations of things to derive the most amazing outcomes’. What it should mean is – if you’re going to run semi-naked through the forest like a nutter, wear shoes!?

  via Champloo website

  Posted by Madame Raymond 26.04.10 • View Comments

  

• Star Wars vs Saul Bass

  a coupla years old… But it’s made out of love :)

  Posted by Madame Raymond 17.04.10 • View Comments

  

• Masterpieces in 3D

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SRxLp97I7c

  Nice one. And Bob Fossil too!

  Sorry Samsung seem a weird about embedding the movie…

  Posted by Madame Raymond 16.04.10 • View Comments

  

• Saved from extinction: Instant Polaroid film

  

  Thanks to the team at Impossible you can now buy Instant Polaroid film. They’re very cool guys at The Impossible Project – I recommend watching their backstage movie!

  via.The Impossible Project Shop

  Posted by Madame Raymond 26.03.10 • View Comments

  

• Tumblr Mosaic Viewer - inspiration incarnate!

  

  I’m loving Tumblr Mosaic Viewer! Stuff, stuff and yet more visual stuff!

  Posted by Madame Raymond 10.03.10 • View Comments

  

• Future Milk

  

  Thank you Futuremilk for your continued visual sustenance. Tres bon.

  Pic from Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek’s Photostream on Flikr

  Posted by Madame Raymond 03.03.10 • View Comments

  

• Ninja's Unboxing

  This is excellent animation. Don’t know if the phone’s any good.
  Can anyone find the ‘making of’?

  via. twitter.com/bhostler

  Posted by Madame Raymond 16.02.10 • View Comments

  

• God is dead. Long live the Mandelbrot.

  

  Professor Al-Khalili’s ‘Secret Life of Chaos’ is one of the finest explanations you’ll ever likely see on television, dispelling the human fantasy of the existence of God forever.

  Perhaps only 200,00 people will get see this very smart, yet simply presented set of ideas directed by Nic Stacey and Furnace Productions for the BBC.

  Chaos Theory is a mindbending, counterintuitive and for many people a deeply troubling idea. But Professor Al-Khalili reveals the science behind much of beauty and structure in the natural world and discovers that far from it being magic or an act of God, it is in fact an intrinsic part of the laws of physics. Amazingly, it turns out that the mathematics of chaos can explain how and why the universe creates exquisite order and pattern.

  Professor Al-Khalili, (now officially my second favourite TV Presenter) has one of the smartest pay-off lines on any science programme I’ve ever seen. “I can scientifically guarantee that I have know way of telling you what the future will hold”. That’s chaos.

  The official webiste of Professor Jim Al-Khalili is www.al-khalili.co.uk

  Posted by Madame Raymond 18.01.10 • View Comments

  

• Retro Futures Book Collection

  

  This set of Retro Future Books keep my bookshelf upto date. I love how each book Facebook, Myspace, Tumblr book design has a creation date on it. Very smart.

  From the photostream of Olly Moss here on Flikr.

  His website is here: OllyMoss.com.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 11.01.10 • View Comments

  

• The Real Destiny Angel?

  

  OK. So how long has it taken to allow girls to fly jet fighters? Apparently the Red Arrows now has a ‘lady pilot’ here on the BBC.

  If you’re feeling nostalgic, Captain Scarlet and Destiny Angel are in action HERE.

  Destiny Angel is now in her 70’s.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 12.11.09 • View Comments

  

• oh! to be this talented and 16!

  

  Eleanor Hardwick – catch a rising star.

  via EleanorHardwick.com

  Posted by Madame Raymond 06.10.09 • View Comments

  

• CGI Eyebrows are the window to the soul?

  CGI-brows from Andrew Gaynord on Vimeo.

  “This will literally change the face of the motion picture industry” Mark Kermode

  via http://twitter.com/serafinowicz/status/4319748828

  Posted by Madame Raymond 24.09.09 • View Comments

  

• Tomorrow People. You know, for kids!

  I like the type
  I like the music
  I like the attitude
  What is there to not like?

  Posted by Madame Raymond 07.09.09 • View Comments

  

• Jack Freak from Gilbert & George

  

  Gilbert and George know Jack Shit (excuse my Inglish)!.

  I love these guys.

  via: White Cube Gallery and Amelias’ Magazine

  Posted by Madame Raymond 21.07.09 • View Comments

  

• Awkward Family Photos

  

  Some lovely Awkward Family Photos website recommended by John Ronson.

  via http://twitter.com/jonronson

  Posted by Madame Raymond 24.06.09 • View Comments

  

• It Felt Like A Kiss

  “It Felt Like A Kiss is a show I am doing with Felix Barrett of the theatre company Punchdrunk. It’s at the Manchester International Festival and is a co-production between the festival and the BBC. It starts on July 2nd. This is a short trail.”

  Adam Curtis – The Medium and the Message

  Posted by Madame Raymond 22.06.09 • View Comments

  

• OMG, like, I just love Summer Heights High!

  and like, I just love her hair but I don’t think she’s like, right about lesbians? You know?

  If you haven’t like seen it yet? It’s like, a must see?

  via. YouTube

  Posted by Madame Raymond 27.05.09 • View Comments

  

• It's a ...gas ...gas ...gas.

  

  Luverly

  Thanks FutureMilk

  Posted by Madame Raymond 14.05.09 • View Comments

  

• Photography of the devil or a turnip?

  

  Atomic Bomb detonation Photos at 1/100,000,000 of-a-second exposure by Harold Edgerton

  thank you Plot

  Posted by Madame Raymond 13.05.09 • View Comments

  

• Is it me you fancy? Or vermiculate?

  

  Thinkmap’s Visual Thesaurus is quite handy at visualising any words you might fancy or vermiculate. Keep reloading at the beginning, if the trial runs out on you.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 29.04.09 • View Comments

  

• When clowns turn bad, ad

  

  this interactive cinema ad from Philips is exciting me…

  thanks The Weakest Leg

  Posted by Madame Raymond 20.04.09 • View Comments

  

• a trolley of psychedelic jelly visits hospital...

  

  “…alcoholic architecture …flavour tripping, …scratch and sniff cinema?
  From Bompas & Parr. Can’t wait to get ill.

  thanks Clare

  Posted by Madame Raymond 17.04.09 • View Comments

  

• 28dayslater Urban Exploration

  

  I can’t say I hang around old Asylums much. But these people at 28Days Later Forum are on something or onto something weird.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 07.04.09 • View Comments

  

• Ooops. Credit Crunch explained by animators

  
  The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

  Well, you have to hand it to animators. They make it so simple.
  Credit Crunch explained.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 01.04.09 • View Comments

  

• Feeling My Way

  An insightful short Feeling My Way by Jonathon Hodgson and 4mations.

  Feel slightly better now about seeing those weird scribbles in my head on the way to work.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 25.03.09 • View Comments

  

• Sign of the TImes?

  

  The Guardian certainly thinks so.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 19.03.09 • View Comments

  

• You Thru Music Mash Up

  

  Here’s a lovely use of edited YouTube clippery, in You Thru.

  thanks Matt
  :D

  Posted by Madame Raymond 17.03.09 • View Comments

  

• Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives

  
  Watch Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives [Part 1]  |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

  Here’s an opportunity to see the BAFTA-winning documentary about geek-rock musician Mark Oliver Everett who learns about his dead father’s ground breaking discovery, that parallel worlds can be explained through quantum mechanics!

  Posted by Madame Raymond 10.03.09 • View Comments

  

• The Czech Bog Monster & the Tourist

  Thanks Ben at Beef for sending me this fantastic bit of telly of Czech musician and comedian Ivan Mládek!

  The song follows a man driving through Moravia, and finding a village terrorized by a bog monster named Jozin which eats mainly tourists from Prague. The man asks the mayor of the village to give him a crop duster plane to defeat the monster, and the mayor agrees, promising half of the collective farm and the hand of his daughter in marriage if the man is successful. The man takes the crop duster into the air, and defeats Jozin, trapping him, and selling him to a zoo.

  You can find more about them on Wikipedia here.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 03.03.09 • View Comments

  

• Conspiracy anyone? Try 'theyrule.net'

  

  TheyRule.net scans information on the internet and finds out who sits in the chief boardrooms in the biggest companies in the USA.

  You can drag companies or businessmen into the space and TheyRule can work out how close they are linked. It’s great for developing conspiracy theories and is designed in such a neat way. Check it out…

  thanks via: The Weakest Leg

  Posted by Madame Raymond 02.03.09 • View Comments

  

• Bonnaroo Music Festival

  ooh! I like this animation for Bonnaroo, thanks Burning Fence Post!

  via Cartoon Brew

  Posted by Madame Raymond 19.02.09 • View Comments

  

• Lets make our own Indian Headdress!

  

  Woop! Woop!

  via Flickr

  Posted by Madame Raymond 12.02.09 • View Comments

  

• Random Bus Slogan Generator

  

  Oh! Here comes the Random Bus Slogan Generator and there’s probably no God either.

  via Creative Review

  Posted by Madame Raymond 09.02.09 • View Comments

  

• The Art of the Title Sequence

  

  …a link to the the Art of the Title website for all you Film and TV historians out there!

  Posted by Madame Raymond 03.02.09 • View Comments

  

• 360 degree video? Zut alors!

  

  Mais oui…

  …an example of underwater 360 video from the BBC.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 15.01.09 • View Comments

  

• Google Moon - might be handy?

  

  OK so I found Google Moon here via The Mighty Boosh Moon. Maybe one is more useful than the other?

  Posted by Madame Raymond 12.01.09 • View Comments

  

• Inhaling Alice in Wonderland!?

  After Willard Wigan admits inhaling Alice, he goes on to paint a figure using a fly’s leg. Check out at the end, how much this guy sells his life’s work for.

  Anyone got anymore ‘weird Brits abroad’ for a new collection!?

  Posted by Madame Raymond 10.12.08 • View Comments

  

• September WINS Best British Film @ Encounters

  

  September was kindly awarded BEST BRITISH FILM at Encounters International Festival 2008. On the panel were Adrian Utley, Simon Perry and Lynda Myles.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 05.01.09 • View Comments

  

• The Fall - a wonderful homoerotic Wizard of Oz

  

  …a much overlooked piece of genius from Tarsem Singh. The Fall is a sort of Baraka) meets the Wizard of Oz. Highly recommended.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 22.11.08 • View Comments

  

• September @ Encounters Film Festival

  Catch September on the big screen at the Encounters Short Film festival.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 08.01.09 • View Comments

  

• Swedish Dance Bands

  

  hair today, gone tomorrow?

  …More to be found here.

  thanks toungestubble

  via Yemi Pics

  Posted by Madame Raymond 12.11.08 • View Comments

  

• Yellow Mad Men

  ;o)

  via CR Blog

  Posted by Madame Raymond 11.11.08 • View Comments

  

• No News. Strangley calming.

  This has quite a powerful, pleasing and relaxing effect…

  via Adam Buxton

  Posted by Madame Raymond 23.10.08 • View Comments

  

• Forkbeard Fantasy Genius at last on DVD

  

  Forkbeard has brought out the brilliant “inCOMPLETE WORKS”, a compilation of Forkbeard’s film and video work over the last 30 years. To order a copy please e-mail ff@forkbeardfantasy.co.uk.

  Here’s a small taster of their genius…
  

  BDHers can sneak a look at the office copy!
  ;)

  via
  Forkbeard Fantasy Website

  Posted by Madame Raymond 20.10.08 • View Comments

  

• "Fashions Come and Go"

  

  Check out this great selection of old programmes from the BBC Archives.

  What We Wore

  Oh, almost forgot… and check out the British Style Genius BDH Style Genius here.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 24.09.08 • View Comments

  

• Don LaFontaine 'The Voice-Over Guy'

  Dave Navarro's Spread TV: Tribute To Don LaFontaine: Spread TV Interview: EP 12
  
  Powered by maniaTV.com

  A relaxed interview with Dave and Todd of Mania.TV, paying their respects to legendary Hollywood voiceover artist, Don LaFontaine, ‘The-Movie-Trailer-Voice-Over-Guy’, who died on Sept 1st.

  …rather movingly, he gets kindad deep when discussing how technology and media are deadening kid’s experience of the world.

  from Mania.TV

  Posted by Madame Raymond 10.09.08 • View Comments

  

• "Naughty to Nice"

  

  A cute spoof viral film for Axe Vice from Dare.

  Go on, I dare you not to giggle at attempts to turn girls from Naughty to Nice.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 10.09.08 • View Comments

  

• Allotment sheds are go!?

  

  Going, going, gone. Julian Perry on Front Row on Radio 4

  As the allotments in East London are forced to make way for the Olympics, Mark Lawson talks to artist Julian Perry who has captured many of their sheds on canvas. If you’re listening to “BBC Listen Again”, he’s 12mins in…

  Find a set of his pictures here.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 04.09.08 • View Comments

  

• The Paper Cinema

  

  Saw The Paper Cinema at the Forest Fringe at the Edinburgh Festival. Brilliant and poetic, live animation.

  What happens at the accidental meeting of inkblots, photocopies, cardboard, angle-poise lamps,
  the occasional table, video technology, a laptop and a banana box?

  A cast of hand-drawn marionettes are
  magically brought to life by the Paper Cinema.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 19.08.08 • View Comments

  

• The Banana Splits are Back?!

  

  “Uh Oh! Here comes Bongo!”

  The Banana Splits

  Posted by Madame Raymond 18.08.08 • View Comments

  

• dancing on a sub-woofer near you

  I think this might be useful. But I’m not sure what for yet.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 12.07.08 • View Comments

  

• Not something you see every day.

  

  I was looking for stuff and I just liked it.

  Thank you Getty Images
  ;0)

  Posted by Madame Raymond 03.07.08 • View Comments

  

• Cool 'Matrix style' pole vaulting

  

  Faking cinematic special effects live on stage at Kinchan and Katori Shingo’s All Japan Costume Grand Prix

  nice. Thanks Duncs.

  via. Bore Me

  Posted by Madame Raymond 12.06.08 • View Comments

  

• a fascinating note from my doctor

  

  I stumbled across this fascinating description about the small NHS Health Centre in Montpelier, Bristol.

  It’s worth scanning down to the midway point of Dr Stefan Cembrowicz’s article. It’s an amazing insight into living and working in one of the most vibrant cities in the UK, from homes that are resolutely additive-free, to those with cases of female circumcision. But most welcome, is the heartening professional fascination from my own Doctor.

  That reminds me I must pick up some more Khat leaves next time I pop down.

  Via. Montpelier Health Centre, Bristol

  Posted by Madame Raymond 27.05.08 • View Comments

  

• Can this be happening? The French entry is sung in English!

  

  It’s worth checking out these links ’cos the Eurovision is going mad this week.

  Even the French are singing in English, Ireland are using singing puppet turkey and Estonia have… well… lost it.

  Just comment below and I’ll tell you where the Estonians are having the ‘after party’!

  Posted by Madame Raymond 19.05.08 • View Comments

  

• You, The Living. Are excellent.

  

  As an antidote the to the footie on Wednesday, you could always go to one of the best films of last / this year.

  The stunning, You, The Living, directed by Roy Andersson is back at the Cube Microplex this week or at most discerning independent moving image outlets.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 19.05.08 • View Comments

  

• Dancing Brains

  Here you go Burning Fence Post. Your link got broken.

  As you said. Brains dancing. What a pleasure.
  x

  Posted by Madame Raymond 09.05.08 • View Comments

  

• Are you Availabot?

  

  These were in the RCA Show a couple of years ago, does anyone know if they have gone into production?

  Availbot from Schulze & Webb

  Posted by Madame Raymond 07.05.08 • View Comments

  

• Contains Violence (and Penguins!) at the Lyric

  

  …well if you want experience something new, Contains Violence at the Lyric Hammersmith could be for you.

  Watch the drama unfold from the from the roof of the Lyric, whilst a psychotic performance is played out in the office buildings across the square. With more than a hint of Rear Window, you can watch through the binoculas provided and tune into the action with a very effective bluetooth headset.

  Wrap up warm though, maybe take a small snifter for comfort, and oh, look out for the Penguins!

  Posted by Madame Raymond 08.04.08 • View Comments

  

• Stefan Sagmeister: Yes, design can make you happy!

  Big thanks to someone for pointing me at this… Mr Stagmeister certainly makes good lists as well as good design philosophy.

  This talk at TED on what design makes him happy is “happy-nin”.

  woop woop! I made up a word!!

  Posted by Madame Raymond 19.03.08 • View Comments

  

• Get with the beat Daddio!

  

  ’cos the Daddy is watching Mad Men on his iPod Touch!

  Doesn’t it feel good when something just works?

  And the BBC iPlayer using Quicktime for it’s streaming is just great. You can’t be really cross with the hackers… I mean… we have paid for the stuff and we could have recorded it anyway… and you can’t take away my right to watch Mad Men in bed, on headphones with the lights out!!

  Posted by Madame Raymond 18.03.08 • View Comments

  

• The Humans Are Dead. Soon.

  
  
  ASIMO - The Humans Are Dead from Jeffery Patch on Vimeo.

  The more I hear the Flight of the Conchords, the more they make me smile… and even though I’m watching the end of civilization, set to The Humans are Dead, it still seem fun!

  Do you want one of these ASIMO robots??

  ps. Business Time is still a favourite
  x

  Posted by Madame Raymond 27.02.08 • View Comments

  

• Dawn of the Dumb

  

  Please dip into (or buy!) Dawn of the Dumb, Charlie Brooker’s excellent diatribes in The Guardian, captured in this bumper volume of barbed bile.

  Mr Brooker has this enviable knack of spotting why you feel slightly nauseous when watching… well… anything!

  Posted by Madame Raymond 15.02.08 • View Comments

  

• The Pearce Sisters

  

  A quick shout out for my chum Luis Cook and his short film for Aardmans: The Pearce Sisters.

  …having just received a well deserved recognition from those portly ladies and gentlemen at BAFTA, for Best Short Animated Film.

  Does this mean I’ll have to share my pillow with them all again? The things a hard working girl has to do!

  Good luck Luis
  x

  via. thepearcesisters.com

  Posted by Madame Raymond 02.02.08 • View Comments

  

• Making Slough Happy?

  This is an excellent piece of work from The.Ronin and BBC Interactive for the Beeb’s Making Slough Happy series. Nice work guys.

  We’ll be sure to feed this into our current Happiness project with Plot.

  Making Slough Happy, now that must have been a helluva challenge…

  via YouTube.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 31.01.08 • View Comments

  

• Habits of Happiness

  As part of our Happytowns project with Plot we’ve been looking here at Matthieu Ricard’s talk at TED on the Habits of Happiness.

  TED seems an interesting hot bed of thought. I might snuggle up closer now and again ;o)

  Posted by Madame Raymond 25.01.08 • View Comments

  

• How you say... I am enjoying you're ed banging!?

  

  Edbanger Records MySpace.

  Inspiring stuff from the EdBanger and So-Me guys.
  See me on the dance floor, the next time I’m in Paris!!

  Posted by Madame Raymond 22.01.08 • View Comments

  

• BBC iPlayer for Mac seems dandy

  

  ooh… it seems that the BBC in it’s wisdom has rolled out the new BBC iPlayer service for Macs anyway…

  It works fine for me. Now catch up with episodes of the Antiques Roadshow anytime I like!!
  ;0)

  Posted by Madame Raymond 07.01.08 • View Comments

  

• Something to warm you on a cold Christmas night x

  …and I like to lie around on shag pile and admire the smooth tones of Brucie Campbell’s Hungry Like a Wolf.

  Bon Appetite!

  Posted by Madame Raymond 18.12.07 • View Comments

  

• Tenori-On; Rock & Roll or an alien language?

  

  Tenori-On

  Check out the demo.

  Is this cool or geek tastic?

  Posted by Madame Raymond 11.12.07 • View Comments

  

• you see Vic... 'It's a Knockout' could be cool

  Will we see ’It’s a Knockout’ ever again? Will the Royal Family still join in?

  Come on Mr Vic Reeves, put in a proposal. I’ll be there.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 01.12.07 • View Comments

  

• £20 quid for Sea Bass? This got me. Hook, line and sinker.

  Well this hooked me in. But then again Jude Law usually does!

  This is a nice antidote to a busy day. Thanks to you Tate Modern I’ll visit more often.

  via. Creative Review

  Posted by Madame Raymond 21.11.07 • View Comments

  

• Are you feeling Listen Against

  

  And if you Charlie Brooker fans like fucked up radio, here it comes. It’s kinda edgy at first ‘cos the BBC ’listen again’ service includes the news before the programme, but stick with it.

  Listen Against then does your head in. (Look for the ‘listen again’ button on the right of the BBC page.) At first I thought how can the BBC do this, then I thought, mais oui, it’s aimed at me. I’m lovin’ it.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 16.11.07 • View Comments

  

• Apsirational TV anyone? Thank you Mr Brooker

  Charlie Brookers Screen Wipe is keeping some of us sane. It’s nice to have a rant now and again. (anyone wanting a career in TV should check out his (A Career in TV.)

  Posted by Madame Raymond 16.11.07 • View Comments

  

• Wonderbra know how the web works

  kinda genius

  Posted by Madame Raymond 12.11.07 • View Comments

  

• "When one's sleeve falls off" by John Lydon

  

  Here is a short mp3 gem from John Lydon about what he does ""when one’s sleeve falls off".

  He’s speaking about Transition and Transgression in British Fashion for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

  How you say in England:

  “Lardy daa!”

  Posted by Madame Raymond 05.11.07 • View Comments

  

• Andy Martin's Flikr Photos

  

  I got to this picture on Andy Martin’s Flikr page and I thought;

  I might not actually be doing research at all, I’m just enjoying myself to much!!

  Via: Flikr

  Posted by Madame Raymond 01.11.07 • View Comments

  

• Ideas Have Legs: Andy Martin

  

  Andy Martin’s site is full cool stuff.

  I especially like Rag & Bone.

  I bought his book Ideas Have Legs: Ian McMillan Vs Andy Martin from FUEL the other day.

  I then dropped in the bath. It looks even better!
  :)

  Via: AndyMartin.com

  Posted by Madame Raymond 31.10.07 • View Comments

  

• Play Doh Bunnies? Oh yea! Play Doh Bunnies!!

  I like the smell of Play Doh. I like the smell of rabbits!! Perfect.
  Did this only take a day? Mmm… maybe not…

  Thanks Daily Motion

  Posted by Madame Raymond 15.10.07 • View Comments

  

• Tribal Wives sound-u-like?

  Could there be something in this sound by M.I.A. that’s the inspiration for the music for Tribal Wives?

  ’tis cool if it is… and we are liking “Hombre” by M.I.A.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 10.10.07 • View Comments

  

• D.A.N.C.E. T.Shirts

  …this cool series of T Shirts made me kinda nostalgic. I must wear more… (but I should definitely dance less). C’est manifique non?

  Directed by Jonas and Francois of French production company 75

  via: Creative Review

  Posted by Madame Raymond 26.09.07 • View Comments

  

• Heroes of Modbury: Plastic Bag Free World

  

  Ooh look! The Plastic Bag Free World campaign is really kicking off!

  Bristol is proud of its filmakers: Message In The Waves,

  Spread the word x

  Posted by Madame Raymond 22.09.07 • View Comments

  

• Modern Toss / Accident & Emercency

  I’m enjoying Modern Toss=

  I like the framing on this….

  And I’m enjoying their site yea?

  “See ya!!”

  Posted by Madame Raymond 07.09.07 • View Comments

  

• Fuerzabruta Showtastic

  

  Check this out:

  Fuerzabruta

  …saw it in Edinburgh, C’est manifique!

  Posted by Madame Raymond 29.08.07 • View Comments

  

• Man to Man with Dean Learner

  I ave to admit I mizzed ziss Man to Man on ze television…

  But I am in lurve vizz its comic timing… non?

  Thank you YouTube

  Posted by Madame Raymond 16.08.07 • View Comments

  

• Skittles Gags

  

  I’ve been enjoying these crap Skittles gags from Aardmans.

  One a day commercials. neat idea.

  via. goskittleyourself.com

  Posted by Madame Raymond 15.08.07 • View Comments

  

• Kaboom!

  I enjoyed this little war movie Kaboom!

  via PES

  Posted by Madame Raymond 14.08.07 • View Comments

  

• Star Flat

  
  http://www.gluesociety.com.au/

  Check out Star Stories on this Glue Society site.

  ‘cos it’s a flash site you’ll have to look for Star Flat under Work; Glue TV; Star Flat

  It’s kinda like Star Stories or Stella Street but, it seems, with lookalikes.
  nice ’n short.

  Posted by Madame Raymond 10.08.07 • View Comments

  

• Hamster eats broccoli shock

  …it’s good he’s eating his greens.

  Via YouTube

  Posted by Madame Raymond 06.08.07 • View Comments

  

• Talking Cat from YouTube

  Posted by Madame Raymond 06.07.07 • View Comments

  

• http://www.thebigask.com/

  “http://www.thebigask.com/
  check out the video wall!

  Posted by Madame Raymond 06.07.07 • View Comments