Tullamore Is On The Map

Did you think Tullamore was not on the Internet? Really? Well…….

3D Shopping

Well? What do you think?

 

Dragons In The Attic

New Company Launch : Look What I Found In The Attic .com . Like eBay . You find your “Treasure” , Take pictures, Email or SMS to us with a price and we add them to our 3d Graphics gallery. . Buyers click on them and are taken to our on-line shop which takes all major credit cards. The seller gets a copy of the receipt and dispatches the item. We take a handling charge. Basic package through to WOW package where you get http://LookWhatIFoundInTheAttic.com/ what ever. We found Dragons..

 

Windows 7 Advanced

Exploring the capabilities. It Is a fine operating system. So Fast. visit http://irishbusinesslink.com and please donate. mirror site http://windows7.blip.tv

The 7th Seal ~ Bergman

A classic no doubt but what to make of it? The characterisation is superb but so fraught with angst, it is almost distracting. Not embarrasingly so, though. Stoic Death, an everyman's last nightmare; no solace in love and definitely no solace in God. The church is played for the fool, The Fools "The horse is sitting in the tree" ??? Esoteric? Existential? Bit of a laugh really, which is why I chose this clip. Insults!

It all ends with Death leading the entourage into a merry distant dance while the visionary, his young, pretty, pragmatic wife smiling  wryly clutching her baby,  move off with the sunshine.

So there is hope, The Human Condition is not totally bleak……

Last movie a mistake?

Think I made a mistake with the last movie :-/

So response to Time Code = Figgis what did you start?

HTML5

html5

In 2010 a new protocol / code will be used for the creation of web pages. It is called html5. It is an upgrade to xhtml. html stands for hyper text markup language and it is fairly easy to learn and fairly easy to construct. If you want to see it go to View > page source. A good simple example is here : http://www.nowchangeyourlife.com/just4you/advice.htm.

Am I teaching Granny to suck eggs? Sorry

A great web site to see html5 in action is Phase-5, a German site which I have translated > http://html5.nowhostyoursite.com [thanks Google, bit stilted but with its own charm] One of the key features of html5 seems to be its ability to handle video which this short demonstrates. You can also get a cheat sheet code description from the site.

Anyway have a look and leave a comment. I am excited and will have something to show you in a couple of weeks. BTW filmed vertically as all the cool and fashionable sites are long and thin

Tech Info : Another iPhone production – have to get a better method

THE GOVERNMENT IS READING YOUR EMAILS

Paranoid? Need a Secure Server? Well here is your solution: http://irishsecure.com/isis.

Heard of ECHELON? They are reading your emails. They are watching YOU through SECURITY CAMERAS. They have a file on you, a DIGITAL FILE. They know who your friends are, they know who your mistress / lover is, THEY KNOW WHAT YOU DID ON SATURDAY 3rd NOVEMBER OUTSIDE CENTRA IN PATRICK ST AT 2AM.

…….they know your I.P. address, operating system, browser, cookies, java. THEY KNOW HOW BIG YOUR SCREEN IS., they know your resolution….

……trust me, I am your friend, I can help, just give me your password and I will encrypt it for you, just between us, I don’t usually do this but you are special..

Hey! I could encrypt your credit card details too, just fill out this simple form……

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Time Code ~ 10 Years On

Mike Figgis shot the movie Time Code over a period of two weeks but not as re-takes, but rather making the whole same movie again and again. The final credits say:

Time Code was filmed in four continuous takes beginning at 3.00pm November 19th 1999. All of the cast improvised around a predetermined structure

Budget: $4M (estimated)
Opening Wknd: $93.1K (USA)
Gross: $945K (USA)
Genre: Drama
Awards: 2 nominations
User Ratings: 6.1 (4,074 votes)

(From IMDB)

And one reviewer said:

“What is the purpose of the experiment? Above all, to show it can be done. With “Leaving Las Vegas,” the camera strategy came second to the story and was simply the best way to get it on the screen. In “Time Code,” the story is upstaged by the method, sometimes more, sometimes less, and a viewer not interested in the method is likely to be underwhelmed.

[The clip I took was done with an iPhone ~ one take lol]

What Figgis demonstrates is that a theatrical film can be made with inexpensive, lightweight digital cameras and that the picture quality is easily strong enough to transfer to 35mm. He also experiments with the notion of filming in real time, which has long fascinated directors. Alfred Hitchcock orchestrated “Rope” (1948) so that it appeared to be all one shot, and Jean-Luc Godard famously said that the truth came at 24 frames per second, and every cut was a lie.”

I found the movie an intellectual joy, my eye sweeping around the four cameras while letting the rising and falling of the sound direct my focus to one of them. With a little practise I was able to concentrate on all four screens at the same time, ‘out of the corner(s) of my eye’ . A non-focus, wide-eyed zen meditation technique.

Cinematic technique aside, the overall story itself is about the making of a movie at Red Mullet Studios, (Figgis’ own) in downtown L.A. It has five main characters:

1. The sensitive, “real” wife of the studio owner, torn in love, in therapy
2. The rich bitch lesbian in her stretch limo with her wire-tap
3. Her girlfriend wannabe actress
4. The Studio Owner, genius, drunk and screwing the wannabe actress
5. The Movie itself has its own life, its own character, its own screen-in-a-screen

The rest of the cast are awesome. Of note: Drug pushing security guy; beautiful auditioning actress; “Q” the mobile massage guy; pretentious Leiberwitz-quoting Russian-loving female existential singer avante garde wannabe movie director; the director casting a movie and the staff of Red Mullet.

The Story: A Love Story

Cinema semiologists speak of the “disjoined signifier,” and by that they refer to the separation of the viewer from the signified–in this case, from the story.

Have to look that up to comment !?

Love the soundtrack: Jazz, the movie is cinematic Jazz, punctuated with The Polish Symphony Orchestra and featuring Everything But The Girl

I will watch it again in about a week, come back and edit this, meanwhile here is “The Comfort of Strangers ” written by Figgis himself.

The Director’s Cut

He films what he sees

Posted on July 1st 2009 by A Committed Fan & Personal Friend

Emerging Talent

The Director: Pjfbncyl “Phil” to his admirers, “Oy you” to his detractors. Egocentric, centrally egotistical, you cannot mistake one of his films. His subjects are raw, four-take-wonders, rehearsed to the banal, mundane in exposure, He eschews the boom, the steady cam, the tripod and instead incorporates the “slight shake” of the hand-held. “Visually Stunning, Blade Runner Futurism, The Matrix Special Effects, Epic ” are all clearly not seen in his work. He uses colour sparingly preferring drab or perhaps Drab, When there is fast movement there is blurring which captures the speed and leaves head-spinning eye rolling breathlessness. To date all his professional movies have been set in The Living Room of his bijou downtown apartment in the fashionable, red-light district of Tullamore. Of course he is not angry, he has transcended anger, lifting hubris ” overweening pride, superciliousness, or arrogance, often resulting in fatal retribution or nemesis ” to a distinction seldom seen now-a-days, it is child-like refreshment.

A very young man in movie history but in fact really quite old, you will hear Neil Young sound bites throughout. He has been called existential, a “Cuckoo’s Nest” birth and uplifting we-have-all-been-there elfin simplistic comic-tragedies. His very first movie ” 0002″ later becoming “My First One” finalised in “OMG” has been banned in most catholic countries because of use of the f word in the screen titles. Despite this it can still be bought in Clara and is screened after 12.30 am on every third Tuesday. at Brian’s house. It will always be included in retrospectives.

Movieology:

Animation: April 2009

* “not-a-virgin-now-2” running time 22 secs, (includes first voice over)
* “Undo” running time 15 secs (nominated for best short film)
* “Wink on Prezi” running time 3 min 36 secs (first documentary)
* “foxTabs” running time infinity (pause enabled) alternative title “an adventure in 3D”

Moving Pictures

* “Mine” running time 4 min 32 secs (featuring Gomez ) a slide show of influencing scenes ~ filmed on location in Tullamore, Ladakh, Lamu and Monument Valley. Lens by : Canon
* “iPhone 3G(s)” running time 9 min 46 secs ~ embracing new technology. Historical keynote movie made with movie-in-movie-movie techniques. Starring Pjfbncyl (narrator), Morgan Freeman, Antonio Banderas, Michael Jackson (plus cameo Wycliffe Jean) and Bill Gates. First commercial movie, endorsing Apple Inc. (on General Release on Blip TV)
* “iPhone 3G (s) ~ Take 2” running time 9min 25 secs. Widescreen version and augmented sound (available on YouTube only) Sound track available on iTunes

Forthcoming

“What I did, Me ~The Complete Collection April to June 2009″ a Pjfbncyl film will be released July 18th on DVD and Blue-Ray . $14.99. For download on iTunes $3.75c

Director : Pjfbncyl
Produced by Schizo & Phrenia,
Screenplay: Pjfb / Scribd,
Lighting by ESB (Ireland),
Special Effects by : PJFBTRIX~7 + Cool Iris
Post Production: Sekani Finlay-Bryan, Dermot Kinahan
Graphics: CorelXARA 2 1998, Photoshop CS4
Sound by: CRELTIVE
Music: Cold Play, Leftfield, The Doors, Gomez, Thriller, Billy Jean
Key grip: HoldingLeft
Computer Operators: RHMouse & One Click (inc. right click 1994)
Stunt Coordinator : PjManSize
Internet: Firefox 3.5
Distribution Sole Rights: TechnologyIsMe Blip. TV (Adobe Pending)

Special Mention:
Cool Iris, © Microsoft Vista Premium, Apple Inc, Kate Bryan (for the mental training), Intel, Dell Computers, HostGator, Adobe, Wink. IMDb, and Bob Marley for doing what he does.

Phil can often be found at his local pub Just For The Craic

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