Category Archives: Video

LSD + Playing War = Impossible

“After one hour and ten minutes, with one man climbing a tree to feed the birds, the troop commander gave up, admitting that he could no longer control himself or his men. He himself then relapsed into laughter.”

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Beautiful Balls

Watch them all. Watch just one

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Full length version of Beastie Boys – Fight For Your Right (Revisited)

Full length version of Beastie Boys – Fight For Your Right (Revisited) This may be the craziest half hour I’ve spent on the u toobe. Mild anarchy! A-list cameos! Dodgy acting! Will Ferrell playing cowbell! Spraying! (of more than one … Continue reading

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Amelie – Closing Scenes

I saw (most of) this film again this evening. Love it!

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The Peacock and the Chickens

Here’s a video I made of the mating and courtship ritual and display of the Brockwood peacock. He spends a lot of time with the hens. Unfortunately they are not peahens but chicken hens, so they are not very interested, … Continue reading

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Record Solo Eiger Climb

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A choice, right now, between fear and love

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Lyric of the Day: Ask – The Smiths

My Lyric of the Day posts are usually chosen by a lyric that’s in my head when I wake up, or by particularly relevant line or two, like yesterday’s yellow moon on the rise, or today’s spending warm summer days … Continue reading

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Lyric of the Day: Yellow Moon on the Rise – Neil Young

Yellow moon rising tonight, the night before it’s full: There is a town in north Ontario With dream comfort memory to spare And in my mind I still need a place to go All my changes were there Blue, blue … Continue reading

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Japan Quake and Tsunami – Inside the Evacuation Zone – Video

This compelling video was filmed last Sunday. Two Japanese tourists head into the 20km no-man’s-land of the evacuation zone. Radiation meters beeping like crazy, they proceed to as far as 1.5 km from the Fukushima nuclear plant. On the way … Continue reading

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Ellen Page (Juno, Inception, Super) talking about bee collony collapse disorder

And the Vanishing Of The Bees trailer Then you can forget about it all by watching the Super trailer:

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Scrap Book: Mexico Weekend Surf Trip 2006

While staying in California three of us took a weekend surf trip down to Mexico. The first night we stayed in the crappiest campsite, a car park basically, just somewhere to sleep before heading further south: We drove all the … Continue reading

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“Patriotism is a disease” – Einstein, quoted by Peter Joseph of Zeitgeist

Peter Joseph, of the Zeitgeist Movement talks a lot of sense. Here’s a short interview with him in which he outlines the basic principles: Come back to the basic necessities of life The current economic system is intrinsically flawed Almost … Continue reading

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110324 Nature Tour of Brockwood

Ten days ago, Phil, a visiting biologist gave a nature tour of some of Brockwood Park. He was kind enough to let me film it. The video doesn’t contain the whole tour but an edited thirteen minutes. We learnt something … Continue reading

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Comic relief in reverse. It does show up how patronising comic relief can be; not that the causes aren’t worthwhile. And how ridiculous our behaviour is in affluent countries. … Really like these images of the supermoon. Here’s a few … Continue reading

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Went to Petersfield, got on the bus to Selborne, walked to Petersfield. That’s my idea of fun. On the bus there was a little boy with his dad and granddad, going to Alton to ride the steam train. Are you … Continue reading

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110208 Alton to Selborne

Yoga when I woke up, then breakfast before driving to Selborne. From there I caught the bus to Alton so I could walk the first part of the Hangers Way back to Selborne. The path is 21 miles long and … Continue reading

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Geese Running

Nature meets suburbia. I like the sound their feet make on the asphalt.

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Vimeo Video Embed Test

Here’s my favourite scene from Castaway. Man make fire. With help of Wilson? Cast Away: Man Makes Wilson, Makes Fire from Duncan Toms on Vimeo.

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I’ve been resting in bed again most of the day. Still feeling weak. I seem to get this every few months. I don’t go down as hard as I used to with dizziness and aches, but that same sick feeling … Continue reading

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