Messing around with with video settings on my new-ish Canon G12 camera at a gig last night, and discovered the "miniature" setting. Basically a tilt-shift setting, which blurs the top and bottom a bit.
What I didn't realise is that it also plays back at x10 speed and with no sound. I'm a bit gutted there's no sound as this was one of the best songs of the night, but then at 10x it would be rubbish - which I didn't realise at the time either. I would also have liked the tilt-shift blurriness to have been a bit stronger, as at the minute its more of a time-lapse video rather than minature or tilt-shift. - more play needed I think.I still think it looks kinda cool being condensed down into 24 seconds - The light show was really good considering the relatively small size of the gig and lead singer Ed Macfarlane dances around like a mad man.Anyway I thought I'd post it up, so hear it is. Let me know what you think.
So on Sunday TBWA\Manchester entered a team into the inaugral Creative Cup, pitting 32 of Manchesters creative agencies against each other in an all or nothing battle to the death/5-a-side football tournament Enduring unseasonally high temperatures, some of sporting hangovers (Paul), and illness (Sean) and with the games coming thick and fast, Team TBWA managed to win 8 games on the bounce before an unlucky penalty shootout defeat in the semi-finals cruelly knocked Team TBWA out.
RESULTS
Group Stages TBWA 4 v 0 Marketing List TBWA 3 v 2 Orchard TBWA 3 v 0 Melbourne TBWA 3 v 2 Marketing List TBWA 1 v 0 Orchard TBWA 5 v 0 Melbourne
Second round TBWA 3 v 1 The Drum
Quarter Final TBWA 1 v 1 IAS b2b Marketing (TBWA win 6 - 5 on penalities)
Semi FInal TBWA 0 v 0 Lightbox (Lightbox win 4 - 3 on penalities)
Final Penalties also decided the winner of the Creative Cup 2010 with Gyro HSR beating Lightbox on penalties 3-2 after the game was level at 1-1.
All in all Creative Cup was a great day, the weather was awesome and nearly £2000 was raised for charity. It was just unfortunate we couldn't walk away with the cup, but there's always next year!
As an empolyee of TBWA\Manchester there is great scheme available where you recieve half a day off once a quarter to go and do some thing cultural.
This is the story of my Culture Club afternoon.
With the current quarter ending on Thursday and free slots rapidly dwindling I quickly booked mine for Monday afternoon with the intention of going to see Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's exhibition at the Manchester Art Gallery, however I arrived to find gallery is closed on Mondays.
Annoyed at my lack of preparation, I quickly hot footed it across to the Cube gallery on Portland street, as there is usually some good little exhibitions on there. Although on Monday it just seemed to be hosting a forum on energy saving from Calor. I did manage to snap a pictures of the seemingly only piece of work being displayed.
So after these two disasters, I made a beeline for the Cornerhouse, but alas their 3 galleries were also closed (for changeover this time). All that was left to do was to take stock with a tasty beverage in the Cornerhouse's fine cafe/bar. At this point I recieved a phone call from Matt Cook, who was also on his Culture Club afternoon and suffering a similar fate to myself. After doing exactly the same route, he was now in the Northern Quarter finding the galleries closed there too.
Do people really not visit galleries on Mondays?
After much deliberation (and some beer), I decided to check out a film at the Cornerhouse. There was one film on, Enter the Void. Its got pretty good reviews and I watched a cheeky trailer on my iPhone which looked cool.
I was warned by two separate cinema employees about the use of strobe lighting and flashing effects as well as the threat of motion sickness during the film. This only made my anticipation of the film grow, however what I wasn't warned about was that the sickness felt by previous viewers of the film probably wasn't caused by the portions of the film shot in the first person, but was probably due to some of the the subject matter.
Now, this is a good film. Its shot in a pretty cool way, and uses some interesting and very stylised techniques. Some of the cut scenes do go on for far too long however, and about halfway through it suddenly becomes the most unexpectidly (porno)graphic film I've seen. I certainly felt "cultured" by the time I left!
I did also manage to squeeze in a walk through the set of the Hollywood blockbuster "Captain America" being filmed on my doorstep in the Northern Quarter on my way home. Below are a few snaps taken on my iPhone, for more information, (better) photos and videos on the filming check out this great blog, captainamericafilmingmanchester.co.uk.
Here is a video of the scene where the fire damaged car in my photos is being blown up.
Conclusion.
All in all it was a great half day even if it did get off to a slow start, with the culture having to be hunted down. So next time round and to avoid seeing a man reaching the point of climax from inside a woman, I might just do a bit more preparation. #cultureclub
Last Tuesday I went to the launch of a new illustration exhibition at Odd Bar in the Northern Quarter. I'd definately recommend popping in if you've got a few spare minutes, there are some really nice pieces - I particulary liked the typographic work. Its on for a month and its all at very affordable prices, I you wanted to take some home with you.
I visited Noise Lab (twitter.com/noise_lab part of Noise Festival) on Market Street for the first time last Sunday (31/01/2010), I’d been wanting to pop in for a visit since they opened and I’d not had a chance to make any of their talks so far. Last Sunday was different, I finally made it in as Jon Burgerman (www.jonburgerman.com ) was in town. To be honest the visit didn’t start very well. Firstly the heating was/is broken, and secondly we were left waiting an hour and a half for Mr Burgerman to arrive (something to do with flying in from Oslo).
Once Jon Burgerman arrived, and the talk/interview got underway the cold and (slightly) restless audience seemed much happier and engrossed in the man and his work. It was interesting to hear about his early motivations (not to have to work to much and not to starve, being the main ones), as well as hearing how he progressed from working in his bedroom to being an internationally known artist and doodler; drawing on everything from envelopes to Pepsi cans, putting on art exhibitions, annoying art agents/sellers and some of his new projects (including combining doodling and live music performance).
If you’ve not been down to Noise Labs yet I’d recommend it (although wrap up warm if it’s a cold day!), there is loads of great work to buy from lots of creative people, a nice little café and there are loads of great workshops and talks too going on.
