View from the Potting Shed

The look of an expectant father on 12seconds.tv

I discovered this video (Money as Debt) embedded on Dave Gorman’s blog this week, and have only just gotten around to watching it — it lasts about 47 minutes, but it’s certainly well worth it — and if true … wow! Then the situation is more scary than I feared. There’s a […]

First of all there was this 12seconds clip from Documentally, about a dog and a field mushroom:

Mushroom The Size Of My Head on 12seconds.tv
… which later prompted this parody from AndrewJHolmes, about another canine and a fairy-tale mushroom:

documentally mushroom on 12seconds.tv
In other news
While you’re there, check out AndrewJHolmes’ answer to the 12 challenge: If I […]

Another new Metallica song — their first single — from their forthcoming album Death Magnetic: The Day That Never Comes.
To me it sounds like a combination of songs from Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, … And Justice For All, and Load/ReLoad.
I’m really looking forward to the album’s release …

In the UK there’s been a long-time medical TV series called Casualty; the YouTube video above shows you the opening titles from Series 15 (2000-2001).
The show is filmed in Bristol, but is set in the fictitious town of Holby — around which have sprung up two other series Holby City (set in the same hospital […]

Spotted on the Metal Hammer website:
Metallica played a track that will appear on ‘Death Magnetic’ at their Ozzfest debut on Saturday night in Dallas, Texas in its entirity, the first all-new material from the band in half a decade.
The track that Metallica have played is called ‘Cyanide’…
Sounds good — I’m looking forward to hearing the […]

My first 12second update on 12seconds.tv
Hoorah! Yesterday 12seconds send me an invitation to join their closed alpha of their new video status update website.
As the name suggests you have 12 seconds to record your video update.
This is my first post, using the Logitech “50s movie reel” effect built-into QuickCam. Very retro.
Not sure why I said […]