Film Making #5 (Kindness)

An edited down version of Skrines' entry to our house drama competition. I really enjoyed making the film and am very proud of the final result, winning was just a bonus. The full seven minute version is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcsiFBhzGNA&feature=g-upl

Film Making #0 (Porterloo)

This video is numbered '0' as it was the first one that I created, when I was eleven. Using what basics I knew about Flash, this is what I came up with, enjoy.

Film Making #4 (Hartley)

Don't ask me to explain, it's on this list for a reason.

Why time flies when you’re having fun

Ok, this isn’t true at all, I understand exactly why time seems to go faster when you’re being entertained. At least I think I do, I just needed some excuse for telling the whole world my idea, which I do think is kind of obvious though:

Right, electricity travels fast yes? No, you don’t have to answer (laughs aloud) I can’t hear you. And the brain’s messages are electronic signals that buzz round super fast to tell you what’s going on? (small steps) So this means that the brain thinks about stuff faster than they happen, let me examplise (all over your face): have you ever been thinking about something whilst something else has been going on, like a song playing or someone talking, you’re surprised to find when you’ve gone through a whole film or whatever in your head, the song or maths lesson hasn’t passed very far. This fact also explains why in dreams it seems like months or years of events have passed when it’s only been a couple of minutes. So, when thinking about stuff our fast thoughts make it seem more time has passed so time in the real world goes slower. This explains when having fun we are frolicking about in real world time, participating in tangible events, touching real objects only thinking about events as they unravel at normal speed. However when bored there is nothing to keeps are minds occupied, so we resort to reminiscing or imaging stuff in our heads because there is nothing else to think about. This happens a lot faster than the boring task you’re being made to do, so real world time seems to be slower as you’re travelling faster than it. So, when having fun, our mind is occupied with real world activities that keep us at real world speed, but when bored we think of other things and so in essence travel faster than the task you’re doing so the time appears to go slower.

Take that relativity!

I am everything I am not, I am not everything I am

Why don't people with high blood pressure become blood donors?

Film Making #3

So this is a stop-frame animation video made  entirely without my input. My 12 year old brother and my older sister (aka "JA JA" because they have the same initials) spent a short afternoon taking the photos and editing the footage on windows movie maker with music and effects from clip art. Hmm, puts my stuff to shame...

Senseless persistence

I’m going to be honest with you, I wrote the title of this one quite a while ago and now, looking back at it I can’t see why I don’t, or didn’t understand it. I guess it would be a “what’s the point in fighting a war you know you’ve already lost” kind of thing, but that’s not a very good philosophy. If you feel strongly about something you shouldn’t give up. Or maybe that’s not a very good philosophy either; because what if you are wrong and what you are doing will cause serious pain. I guess this is the philosophy of fundamentalists and terrorists. But the first one is the philosophy of the underachiever. The only thing we can draw from this is that nothing is true in every situation and we can’t generalise or stereotype. That statement isn’t true in every situation either, thus proving itself, and myself both wrong and right at the same time. Is that a paradox? Because I’m really confused. Anyway, I guess I just wrote it because it’s a nice-sounding phrase; it rolls nicely off the teeth and the tip of the tongue. And I suppose I just wrote it to sound clever, they are quite big words, if you say it in conversation you’re bound to look pretty bright, unless you’re wearing a lampshade on your head...yeah that didn’t work for me.

Why My Brain takes 5 Years to Process Stuff

I only just noticed that "Love Song" by Sara Bareilles (Sarah Baralis...Zara Braless? I dunno) is not a love song! STOP THE PRESSES! BREAKING NEWS: LOVE SONG IS NOT A LOVE SONG! The lyrics are "I'm NOT going to write you a love song", how misleading. It's actually a hate song. I still like this song (I don't love it because it lied to me).

Minty Bacon

How can anyone understand minty bacon? Nuff said.