The Unpleasant Moblog Of Spank The Monkey
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That enormous metal sculpture thing
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outside Liverpool Street station.
25th Sep 2005, 00:36
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Gang Of Four, Barbican Hall
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To the left of the picture, you can see vocalist Jon King twatting a microwave oven with a baseball bat.
24th Sep 2005, 23:23
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Party Hats Two
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Prehistoric condom vending machine, spotted in the gents at the Union Theatre, Southwark. I didn't have a quarter handy, so I can't tell you if it still works.
23rd Sep 2005, 09:26
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Steamboy
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...or, more accurately, what the Japanese animated film Steamboy looked like when projected via a big Barco onto the 20-metre-high flytower of the National Theatre. They've been doing this with movies here all summer, but the concrete surface of the tower and the ambient light at the top of the
building means that any film with a degree of visual subtlety will look like crap: and unfortunately, Steamboy has a lot of visual subtlety. Pity, as the steampunk lunacy of the plot takes place in front of some splendidly designed backdrops of Victorian Manchester and London. The English dub (featuring Anna Paquin, Alfred Molina and Patrick Stewart as three generations of the same family) came across surprisingly clearly in this screening: I was expecting the sound to be rubbish and the picture to look fab, rather than the other way round.
building means that any film with a degree of visual subtlety will look like crap: and unfortunately, Steamboy has a lot of visual subtlety. Pity, as the steampunk lunacy of the plot takes place in front of some splendidly designed backdrops of Victorian Manchester and London. The English dub (featuring Anna Paquin, Alfred Molina and Patrick Stewart as three generations of the same family) came across surprisingly clearly in this screening: I was expecting the sound to be rubbish and the picture to look fab, rather than the other way round.
5th Sep 2005, 17:11
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The Calamari Wrestler
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Actual screenshot from an actual Japanese movie about a wrestling squid.
30th Aug 2005, 22:49
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Refuse!
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Even the toilets at the Institute of Contemporary Arts have attitude.
28th Aug 2005, 16:44
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Rolf Harris, honestly
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Blah blah blah wish I had an optical zoom blah blah blah Pleasance Grand blah blah blah Edinburgh.
28th Aug 2005, 16:43
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Joss Whedon & Shane Danielsen, Edinburgh Film Festival
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With the video display caught between two-shot and close-up.
24th Aug 2005, 01:40
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