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Codnor - Behind-The-Scenes Pics

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Day three of the Codnor extravaganza, and as promised, here are a collection of pictures from behind the scenes at that location.

Been ages since I've done a pictures post, and it always feels like a cop out, so I shall be waxing lyrical about them for your information/annoyance. I have no doubt my comments will be hilarious, so don't be scrolling past them thank you.

Shall we?

Yes, let's...

(in no particular order)

2022-02-09 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

The ParaPod AVBGH "Yeah But..." 2

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For the second of our four consecutive Codnor posts, I'd like to welcome one and all to another edition of “Yeah But…”, where I have opened the floodgates for folk to ask questions about The ParaPod AVBGH.

More specifically, things in the film that may seem not quite right.  Last time out we had questions about why Barry was filming at East Drive when I went off to get a pot of tea (see, when I put it like that, it doesn’t sound so bad, huh?), and...

Codnor Deleted Footage Video Commentary

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Here we are with the first of FOUR consecutive posts about the filming of the Codnor Castle Sequence. We have this commentary today, then a written "Yeah But" post tomorrow, then a collection of photos from the set up on Wednesday, then some behind the scenes video footage of the set up, the recce and the shoot itself on Thursday.  It is going to be relentless mate, but there's some belting stuff in there.

If I could only bring myself to tell you the fuss this cau...

Sunday Art Post Video

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ANOTHER video!  And there's a video tomorrow as well (on a different topic).  It's like Video World here.

Anyway, is there a better way to spend our joint Sunday than mucking about in the garage doing building stuff? Yes, yes there is.  Loads.  Not least because it's freezing out there.

However, I have bypassed the arctic temperatures for you (as well as endured them), so that you can watch this video in the warmth of your own home.  It's...

Cabin Fever 5 Feb 22

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Regular as clockwork, here he is with a Cabin Fever podcast for you.

Once again it's as close to being live without actually being live as it was recorded just a few hours ago, so it's hot off the press, and contains the following nuggets of bronze...

• Song fuss
• Dust
• Saturday Night Gary Glitter
• Appeal to Denise’s mum
• Cramming
• Wandering around Leeds
• Freddy vs Jason “music”
• Autoharp dissectio...
  2022-02-05 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Progress Report From Castle Diablo

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It’s one of my patented middle-of-the-night written posts for you today, as this week has gotten away from me somewhat.  

It’s been a rather stress one for one reason or another, and my physical reaction to that has been near narcolepsy.  Genuinely been falling asleep at the drop of a hat, and could do it right now if I wasn’t typing this.  Earlier on, I parked the car, and rather than get out I just sat with my eyes closed and dropped off immediat...

Harping On Podcast 5

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Today I bring you a very special ONE-OFF podcast where I battle through playing the autoharp for you, whilst also trying to remember to sing as well as finding the keys on it.

Quick checklist;

Singing requirement dramatically out of my range - check

Not particularly familiar with how to play the songs - check

Recording late at night when my voice is even worse than usual - check

Genuinely, if I hadn't been attending to other business this week, ...

Tombstone Build Part 2

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Oh here is, with yet another video for you (which given the issues shown in this, is nothing short of a miracle).  Wednesday though innit?  And Wednesday is for videos, even if it has fallen the day after the first of the month video.

There were far less catastrophes in this video than in part 1, but it is a while before I actually speak.  It does happen though.  Just after some nice montage/sped up/utilising of iMovie stock music (which I am person...

First Of The Month - Codnor Deleted Scenes

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Today I am delighted to bring you some deleted/alternate/extended scenes from the climax of The ParaPod AVBGH.

I've recorded a video commentary for it (which took me four goes as I am presently in a very tragic trend of failing camera equipment which is really making me sulk), so I shan't say too much about it here.  There's also a "Yeah But..." post on the way at some point in the next week or so, which talks about the Codnor section of the movie in dept...

Oh The Humanity...

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Here we are, a new week with all the possibilities that holds.

Nobody ever points out that this means it also holds possibilities for rubbish stuff, do they? Why should we have their daft optimism forced on us?

That’s me starting as I mean to go on in this post.

Nah, it’s actually optimistic really, I think.  Basically about having matters taken out of your hands, which eliminates the need for decisions.  Which is always rather cathartic. It�...

Tombstone Building Part 1

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For today's Sunday Art Post you are getting yourself another video of me building stuff. 

As the title tells you, this is the first part of the bigger build I've started, which is a tombstone (I'm not even sure if that's what they are called, headstone maybe?) from the Haunted Mansion.  In the queue for the ride there are loads of graves with quirky epitaphs on them (they are usually named after Disney Imagineers too) (Disney Imagineers are the people who cre...

Cabin Fever 29 Jan 22

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Well, all you Cabin Fever podcast fans who made your big protest against the idea of me properly producing this show have certainly made a rod for your own Jane and Freddy here.

You asked for it.

The table of contents for this latest recording is as follows;

• King of water
• A ridiculously long chat that goes nowhere about a flat tyre
• Honestly you can skip till past 9 mins, I’ve no idea what all this was for
• Po...
  2022-01-29 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Little Speed Project

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It's been an oddly full on week this week, filled to the brim with very rubbish stuff that we shan't go into, however - I have snuck in a little art project of making something I wanted for my house.

Am undecided as to whether to make more of them, think they could be a thing to just have limited numbers on Etsy of, as now I've done one I could probably do it again 'relatively' easily, but for the time being there is just this one in stock and I am keeping it.

I'...

Built By Clowns

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I’ve come back to the top of this post to let you know it’s a long one.  It’s a good one as well though so it’s worth taking your time on the toilet to have a read of it.

So, I got a call off Rob Rouse the other day to check I was alright when Meat Loaf died.

He told me that he had called his mate (who is an actual real-life rock star) on the day Bowie died, so he was calling me on the day Meat Loaf died.  Which sounds about right.  It made...

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StoryBoard Collection 2

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Let's have a little sit back today with a few more storyboards from the vault.

Well, you can sit back with them.  I've got to finish my tax today. As always, all I can hear is my Dad saying "if you had a proper job they'd do it for you"...

So, today's storyboards are almost entirely retrospective storyboards, meaning they were drawn after the shoot had already taken place and used for piecing together the edit, as opposed to being a guidance for shots.

Tyre Tracks And Broken Hearts

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A very happy Monday morning to you, and today – as appears to have become tradition – I want to get a few words down on yet another recent death.

That sounded blunt, eh? I nearly wrote “passing” but I just don’t get along with that description.  To be honest, death is the best word too, as I’m talking about death a lot in this post.  That’s it Ian, sell it well…

It’s not really a morbid post though.  That’s not my intent at all....

Sunday Art Post

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I've only just finished this.  This is proper hot off the press.  Or tired off my drawing board.

First though, after the huge success of my Boba Fett picture from last week, let's have my artistic effort from this week's episode of The Book Of Boba Fett...

I probably could have done a better job of that but I had the idea right before I fell asleep on ...

Cabin Fever 22 Jan 22

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Now, I've just remembered that I didn't remember to write down the contents of this in the edit.

Off the top of my head I know I spoke about Tom Jones, tinnitus, record players, Smee from off of Peter Pan, and some potential proposals for future Cabin Fever formatting.  There must have been more.  Oh, Root Beer was in it a bit as well.

Look, as alway, best bet is to have a listen of it.  I do ask some questions so we shall see if you actua...

Rocky II - Art Post

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EDIT - This is a scheduled post so all quite by coincidence of course.

Today I shall be concluding the daft workload/detail piece that I made a start on in Sunday's art post.

Might end up being a daft move shoving it on a Friday, as I've nowt ready for this Sunday on the art post front, and I'm certainly not going to be doing any drawing before then. I feel like I may never actually do any drawing again after the fatigue this piece has left me with. &nbs...

Harping On - One Off Podcast - 4

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Try to contain yourself, because today I bring you a special one-off podcast event called Harping On, where I will be attempting to play the autoharp for you.

In this one-off episode (number 4), I shall be "performing" some tracks by The Magnetic Fields, and some tracks by The Gothic Archies.  If you are unfamiliar with either band, then you definitely won't know the songs at all.  Which is why I have also added a bonus track at the...

The Audiences

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For today's Wednesday video ( a video on a Wednesday) I shall be taking you through some footage from the tour of the movie.

I explain this in the video but I have been collating stuff for the potential/hypothetical blu-ray lately, and been looking specifically as audience response stuff, so here I shall be taking you through some of the footage of audiences watch the movie. 

There's little else I can say that isn't already in the video, so your best bet is ...

Not Just Black And White

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I started this so long ago.  Before I was poorly last year, so it’s been months.  It got shelved when I was off and the threat to finish it is now over, because I have.  I can’t even remember why I started writing it, but it’s here now rather than me being irritated every time I saw it incomplete on my desktop.

For today’s written post, I wish to have a little chat to you about something which certainly rubs me up the wrong way.  So...

Home Release Project Update

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A very happy Monday morning to you, and let’s get right out of the traps for this week with some news about the home release version of the movie.

Some news about the content that is, not the actual production of it.  That’s a job for February when I’ve done my tax and see what sort of state my credit card is in. I’ve one or two business outgoings to sort first (just some new recording equipment because I’ve had enough of waiting for the Tascam to sudden...

Sunday Art Post

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Carrying on my present inclination to do full page drawings, I'm here again with another one in progress.  

I would like to point out that before I started this drawing, my hands were so cold I couldn't hold the pen.  I bravely warmed them up and got on with it, and only mention it here so you can also acknowledge how brave I was, if you like.

Brave right? &nbs...

Cabin Fever 14 Jan 22

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It's Saturday, which means it is time for my weekly solo-blabber train of thought/wreck podcast.

I had that thing going on where I was struggling to talk particularly well, which is never ideal for a podcast, but we get through it in the end.

The vague contents of this recording are as follows;

• The Magnetic Fields
• Lemony Snicket audiobooks
• Juggling obsessions
• Not saying cricket
• Is it too late?
• The saga of t...
  2022-01-15 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Stupid Box Day

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Do you ever start something with the very best intentions and then get whisked away?

I don't mean like procrastination, because it's very much not been that, I just got sidetracked with something that I thought wouldn't take very long, and it stole me from my Thursday.  

I'd started with the intention of doing some Rocky Robot animation stuff, and then I was gonna do some content logging for here.  There's been a handful of new patrons (hi), an...

Vinyl Cutter

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FINALLY!  It has happened!  I got my Cricut machine up and running and learnt a bit about it...

I do mean "a bit" as well.  I filmed the day as video diary, coming in at a whopping 23GB of footage (I've really got to sort that out, it's the GoPro that's the main offender), which I have edited down for you into ten mins of me knocking about the house.  We even cover two days...

There's a chance that tomorrow will be a "contents" day - where I a...

Mini-Deleted Link

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As I mentioned in the "Yeah But" post on Monday, this is a short little deleted bit from inside East Drive. 

This originally fell between Barry going to sleep in the living room and then being woken up by texts in the middle of the night. One line remains in the film (well, two lines merged) as a voice over with a view of the house outside (incidentally, I shot all those exterior shots personally when I got back...it was about 5am I think).

As well as you ge...

Saget Interview

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Little switch around for today after the horrible news about Bob Saget being away.

Thought I'd post up the audio of the interview I did with him a couple of years back, which is admittedly available elsewhere but it's nice to hear it isolated.

In this interview I was literally seconds away from bumping him as a guest as he was late and we couldn't get hold of him.  I'm so glad I didn't, and the ultimate irony is we overran (it was meant to be ten mins) so he...