miniblog archive

  • National Geographic Unearths Its Buried Treasure: http://bit.ly/507mve

  • £200m retail park planned for Edge Lane in Liverpool http://ff.im/-edIwk

  • Security theatre -- Diamond Geezer notes the ludicrousness of airport searches http://ff.im/-edGRV

  • The Master joins McNulty in Liverpool as John Simm films with Dominic West http://ow.ly/VLAr

    • Sam Rockwell appeal. Sam needs your help. The children needed your help. http://bit.ly/732OwX (YouTube)

  • I can't help think of the third season of The Wire when I read about Tesco's disposable party phones: http://bit.ly/4D9hiz

  • The A-Team film trailer. It's just a pity the felt the need to change John Ashley's voiceover to something not quite as good: http://bit.ly/4J4uoK

  • My So Called Life - Complete Series [DVD] £6.98 (look at that John -- and to think my Region 0 cost £90) @Amazon.co.uk http://ff.im/-ecdl8

  • All hail the unbreakable phone! http://ff.im/-ebUA0

  • David Cameron unconcerned that Doctor Who dislikes him. God help him if he becomes PM. "Four words, just four." http://bit.ly/4QDb3w

  • BBC Four are looking for a head of scheduling. Paging Melvyn Bragg, Melvyn Bragg stat. http://bit.ly/7Hp67F

  • More Firefly stories on the way. http://ff.im/-ebQoa

  • Eric Rohmer, a ‘New Wave’ Pioneer of French Cinema, Dies at 89 (the closing moments of The Green Ray were transcendent) http://bit.ly/6yjIaH

  • British Library in Colindale: the final chapter (on the project to digitise the newspaper collection then file them at Boston Spa's Document Respository). http://ff.im/-e9Rm2

  • The myths of boozed-up Britain http://ff.im/-e9Rm0

  • One Year in 120 Seconds http://ff.im/-e7dMQ

  • According to a commenter in this Andrew Collins blog post, Gethin Jones has been given the Film 2010 gig. http://bit.ly/78HwMc
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    3 comments:

    1. John Robinson3:09 pm

      I feel the same way when I see the price of Buffy DVDs nowadays. (I think they were about £70 per season when they were first released, and now you can get all seven seasons for that price!)

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    2. Stuart Ian Burns3:49 pm

      Yes, bought season 4-7 for £70 each as they came out.

      And the space. I bought the whole of Angel for £45 a couple of months ago and they take up the same shelf surface area as five of the old videos. The new version which is sure to come out shorty will probably be half of that.

      I sometimes wonder how the creators of these things, and actors feel when they realise they can hold the sum total of seven - ten years of their life in the palm of their hands. Assuming they're not already too rich to care.

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    3. John Robinson8:56 pm

      I think that if I were a creator I'd just be pleased that portions of my life's work were still available years after the event, regardless of the physical format. Particularly if my bank account kept receiving royalty payments arising from sales of that older work from time to time...

      Soon, as the market shifts away from physical media and towards downloadable (or streamable) content, creators and actors will have to get used to the idea that the sum of their seven years' work is nothing but a stream of bits...

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