Hamm and Clov

Posted on May 16, 2015 | 1 comment

With due acknowledgement to the original Beckett, and apologies to those better writers who have taken his absurdist nihilism as a suitable vehicle to pastiche when commenting on the futility of the Climate wars… Continue reading →

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Abstract-Minima

Posted on May 6, 2015 | 2 comments

Another couple of minutes of sound and vision…
No colour or taste has been spared to put together some abstract animated visuals and some simple minimalist sounds.

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Calories and Climate.

Posted on April 27, 2015 | 3 comments

There are many seductive similarities between the problem of too many calories causing obesity, and too much fossil fuel causing global warming.
There are fundimental differences as well. I am well aware that some of the following comparisons stretch the metaphorical Youngs modulus well beyond the linear range.

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Hot Curry Easter Egg

Posted on April 8, 2015 | 5 comments

The American Physical Society has released its draft Statement on Climate Change to the APS membership. This after a protracted episode of internal politics in which a ‘traditionalist’ cadre tried to reformulate the old statement from 2007 to include a more ‘skeptical’ nuance.
After due deliberation the APS has rather predictably drafted a statement of the mainstream position on climate science. Dr Judith Curry is clearly not amused. Continue reading →

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Audio-Visual Easter Egg

Posted on March 25, 2015 | 1 comment
Watermelon in Easter Hay

This is just a tryout, a first draft to test the integration of the audio recording and visual editing system. I hope there will be future posts with rather better sorted animation and audio. However it is nice to have a day of noodling with sound and graphics and see what happens. This is a direct steal of a Zappa riff and song… Continue reading →

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Cities, regulation and coal

Posted on March 25, 2015 | 1 comment

Sometimes, those who reject the serious potential threats from CO2 emissions driving global warming accuse those who highlight the possible impacts of climate change of wanting to return to a simple agrarian life. That the motivation is a wish to regulate out of existence modern technological society and entrepreneurial capitalism. The opposite is true. Regulation is a necessary feature of civilisation, required to make the urban environment and the manufacture of products possible.

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Climate Change at the BBC.

Posted on March 8, 2015 | Leave a comment

I am a little late to the party, the programs I want to talk about were broadcast last week, March 2nd -5th*. Work and other video editing have delayed this, and a couple of ‘how to’ video editing posts, and a ambient-minimalist audio-visual bit of nonsense… so no graphics, but anyway

Climate Change by Numbers
Climate Change: a Horizon Guide.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

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Chiddfest

Posted on March 1, 2015 | Leave a comment

A little exercise in video editing and animation FX to advertise a local music, and beer, festival.chiddfrest2015 Continue reading →

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Climate of a Lifetime

Posted on February 15, 2015 | Leave a comment

After last year 2014, being the hottest since records were kept, there have been the predictable complaints that the record is somehow suspect. From quibbles about the probability it was the warmest; it was the definite odds-on favourite, to raising dark insinuations of wholescale or widespread falsification of the record. Because of homogenisation, or something. A disinclination to accept reality that ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous.

But like the top-stone on a pyramid last years record only makes the point, it does not define the whole shape.Climate64_1 Continue reading →

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NALOT – Animation

Posted on February 9, 2015 | Leave a comment
 NALOT.
Not A List Of Ten.

As list based stuff seems to be a web cliche I thought I would have a go…                   A NALOT is an arbitrary list in arbitrary order of an arbitrary number of things I want to mention and talk about. all a bit arbitrary.

[PREEMPTIVE CAVEAT- Warning this post contains NO climate references at all. If you are only interested in the climate issue please see the link in the menu above. Thank You]
Films. Cartoons and animations. -read on –

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