v-Idol
Posted: 25 July 2006 Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: film, workshop Leave a commentI recently did a series of workshops for iDAT with some summer schools shooting videos using mobile phones. Based on Googleidol, the kids picked tracks and then “mimed” a video. You can see the results here.
Printing background images
Posted: 14 July 2006 Filed under: Useful stuff | Tags: css Leave a commentThis is a nice little hack to print background images which are not printed by default by browsers. Normally you’d use the image tag but this little fix uses list-style-image instead.
So, lets say you’ve got an identifier setup called logo, in the print CSS you need to do this
#lo\go {
display: list-item;
list-style-image: url(logo.gif);
list-style-position: inside;
height: 39px;
width: 125px;
}
It apparently works in IE6, Firefox 1.0 and 1.5, Opera 8.5 and Safari. Pretty neat huh? A full explanation can be found here.
They think it’s all over
Posted: 11 July 2006 Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: football Leave a commentI think I have shown some considerable restraint over the last month. The biggest festival of football and not one entry on it. No mention of how positive the Germans played or the battle of Kaiserslautern between Italy and the US or Joe Cole’s goal against Sweden or Argintina’s 24 pass goal or Ronaldo’s “diving” or the real Ronaldo setting a new record for scoring or ZZ’s head butt or even me only missing one televised game the whole tournament (which unfortunately wasn’t the Swiss v The Ukraine). Still to make up for it, here’s 2 of my favourite TV ads.
MotionPlymouth launch
Posted: 3 July 2006 Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: award, film, MotionPlymouth Leave a commentMotionPlymouth launched today at the Big Screen and as Openreel is one of the official partners I went along. MotionPlymouth is a two-day festival which aims to illuminate the city, showing off giant projections, light-art and installations over 16th and 17th November. More details and how to enter the competition can be found on the website.
Katie and Dawn launch MotionPlymouth
Openreel logo on the Big Screen
It’s big and it’s a screen
Posted: 1 July 2006 Filed under: Ramblings | Tags: film, openreel Leave a commentFor Wimbledon fortnight, a big screen has been erected in the City Centre and Openreel were asked to provide some footage to show on it during the quiet periods when the tennis wasn’t on. So Sarah and I hustled and cajoed people to get enough work together to create a showreel along with some idents that Sarah made. Today was the 2nd showing of the showreel and I managed to get along to have a look. It was great to see the work on such a huge screen and played thru’ a massive sound system – I could hear it as far away as the uni. My one gripe though was that the idents weren’t shown. I guess with it being the BBC and them having a policy of not advertising (unless it’s their own productions that is – am I being cynical?) that’ll be why. Still, it was good to be asked.
You can see some photos I took of today’s here and more will be added later.