Arsenal Meet The Queen

Highlight of Mock The Week for me, Hugh Denis's voice overs, light relief from today's Royal Wedding coverage..

Ruarri Joseph "Severed Dreams"

Ruarri makes fantastic videos.

Hove Festival, Norway

Lovely film.. sums up why I love working at the Hove Festival, and what makes it unique.

Hove festival 2010 from Lavafilm on Vimeo.

Studio Killers - Ode To The Bouncer

Mobile Phone Viral sorry ADVERT

This video has been doing the rounds the last few weeks, yes its fantastically shot, its a clever idea (although the song is sort of out of tune / time), and it has quite a few YouTube views - it's one of those videos that keeps you guessing what its for, right until the very end, and that's where it becomes extremely disappointing.

What a let down. Two mobile phones sat there, the only connection being a wooden finish to the phone. You could run the same video and plonk a can of dog food at the end, it would't matter, I doubt viewers would care. If they wanted to make this advert "go viral" as I'm sure they did when it was conceived, maybe adding a simple bit of humour to the end would've encouraged more people to send / share it with friends, rather than the worry that they might be spamming.

Maybe after going all that way, playing Bach out of time and tube, the ball knocks into the phones and they splat into mud (face up of course) and the director shouts "take two".

Leaving Card

Was reminded of this today, when I heard someone humming Frank Sinatra's "My Way". When a colleague (Adrian) left Independiente (2003?) we made him a DVD rather than giving him a card - everyone said something to camera, without warning, and all were done in one take. Here's two - Ernan's was my fave, mine played on his gags, but both are now a lovely reminder of the label how it was back then.

Leaving Work from Ritch Ames on Vimeo.

Wills & Kate Wedding Song, by Amateur Transplants (NSFW)