Life's Too Short & An Idiot Abroad 2

Apparently there will be a second series of An Idiot Abroad, which will focus on Karl experiencing 'bucket list' activities, which are things that people typically say you should do before you die. There are no other clues as to what these will include and Ricky has said that Karl is 'asking more questions this time around', considering what he went through last time. They start filming soon.

I would love to see Karl swimming with dolphins, climbing a mountain or running a marathon. Good news indeed.

I can't wait for Life's Too Short to air. After seeing the pilot episode the BBC have commisioned a full six-episode series. The sitcom will centre around Warwick Davis and will be a fictionalized account of his day-to-day struggles with being shorter than the average person. The series will include cameos by both Gervais and Merchant who will play themselves.

Depending on the success of the series there may even be a Life's Too Short film. The humour has been described by Ricky as being similar to that of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

What would we do without Karl, Ricky and Steve.

Submarine

Check out the trailer for Richard Ayoade's feature-length directorial debut 'Submarine'. Adapted from the novel of the same name written by Joe Dunthorne. Good to see the British film industry is producing some quality. Comes out in the cinema on Friday 18th March.




Film Trailers by Filmtrailer.com

An idea for a band.

I thought of an idea of a band who make music designed to sound as if it is a soundtrack for an old retro games console. Each album could be presented as a soundtrack for a fictional game, so that when you listen to the album you feel like your going through the game's levels. Each album's inlay could be presented as a 'manual' for the game (which doesn't exist) and there could be lots of pages going in to detail on what are actually very simplistic controls, with a small line of text on the last page saying 'music by...'

They could bring out an album for each console (megadrive, Amiga, Gameboy, N64) with each 'soundtrack' conjuring up what the console and its games were all about.

I don't know if this has been done...it seemed like a reasonable idea in my head.

Vintage soundtracks from the Sega mega drive

The song played over the bonus level on Cool Spot sounds like something Daft Punk would conjure up!



Couldn't find any of the original music but I found this remix of sounds and music from Micro Machines. It's grown on me.




Two tracks from Streets of Rage 1) Moon Beach and 2) Concrete Jungle.




I used to love Road Rash and the music for each location that you raced in was ace. Racing on a motorbike, using a chain to knock people off their bikes...I thought I was it. These are three of the best songs from the game (cut down because they run up to 20 minutes each!)
1) main theme 2) Alaska 3) Hawaii

Poladroid

Poladroid is a great little widget that you can download for free from here. The widget is essentially a polaroid camera that you can download to your desktop. You can then drag saved photo files from your computer, placing them on to the poladroid widget and after about five minutes you'll have a polaroid version of the original photo.

It's worth playing around with settings, which allow you to add scratches and a thumb print to your polaroids. This is a great widget and lets you turn photos taken yesterday in to something from the 70's!

Here are some of my own:

Cool Hunter

Earlier on this year I stumbled upon this really cool site, aptly named http://www.thecoolhunter.co.uk/.

The Cool Hunter roams around the UK and the rest of the world, celebrating creativity in all of its modern manifestations. The site has become the world's most-read culture and design site. It is the bench point and a leading authority on the latest innovative, original and thoughtful features in architecture, art and design, gadgets, fashion, events and music, to name just a few of the categories.

Here are a few of my favourite pages:

Pillow Fight Club:
Looks like the most fun in the world! The most recent event saw one thousand people battle it out in London and San Francsico.

Create your own cardboard cinema:
Save money going to the cinema. All you need is a lot of cardboard, a decent sized TV, surround sound speakers and some popcorn. I still don't quite understand how the cardboard supports your weight, but as the images show, it can be done.

SOUND Phuket night club:
Looks like a night club from the future.

Mishare - Share music:
The Mishare is a handy little gadget that enables you and a friend to connect two ipods and swap songs and albums, without needing to use a computer. Simple.

A life-size pinball machine!:
A colourful human-scale pinball machine completely lit by LED lights. It's like some surreal dream.

Sortin' Out

I've been sorting through a load of old stuff in my bedroom, taken ages though.

Fed up with my bed, it's too small for me. I have to sleep diagonally or curl up like some sort of insect. When I was younger I stuck all these stickers over the bed and stuff. Didn't really think it through back then, but it's really annoying being 21 and having Noddy and Pingu stickers scattered about your room. Don't peel off easy either. And I didn't really see the point of Noddy, he can nod off.