Intel’s latest campaign celebrates Geek’dom and Tech’head culture. This appeals to me – I take pride in being a geek – and although the wider audience may not immediately recognise the achievements of the ‘rock star’ engineers – and OK, the ‘rock star’ comparison is tired, and actually, are ‘rock stars’ cool anymore?  –  the overall treatment focuses on the Intel folks’ talent; their pride and their immersion in what they do -  this is communicated to everyone.

Elegant motion detection from the Natal development team. This is clearly a controlled – or pre-rolling – promotional piece, but judging by the responses from E3 crowds – as crowds watch live demonstrations of the basic motion capture function – this project is moving closer to a full implementation. I’m really not evangalising about the big-evil-Microsoft, contrary to the recent amount of related posts…

Contrary to the dark themes in Sorrow’s Army we spent a lot of time laughing-and-giggling making this video.

ITN TV on MUZU.

Consisting of pieces that function like supersize Legos, these sets make it easy to construct a room divider, home office, or sensory-deprivation pod on a lazy Sunday afternoon. I have an urge to construct a giant bubble-space; sit inside with latte and a good book…

Back in the 1960s, there was no better way for a larval engineer or scientist to stand out from those pursuing more mushy majors than swaggering around with a fancy slide rule in a spiffy leather holster dangling from their belt.

Microsoft’s 2019 Future Vision Montage: Envisioning the Future. This is an enticing show-reel; some beautifully visualised themes and ideas. If only Microsoft could realise some of these ideas. Will they ever? Well, Microsoft Surface is a fully realised interactive experience…

Easter eggs and lazy’ness are all good ingredients for the typical Easter weekend. Heading out into the woodland with Graham and friends to film music videos is more tasty than a lorry load of Creme Eggs and more hilarious than watching the Morecombe & Wise Easter special. I first heard ‘Sorrow’s Army’ on Graham’s iPod in Camden’s cafe Nero over a year ago, so to be filming the footage for Graham was such a privilege. The brilliant director and animator Chris Hopewell (you probably know him from Radiohead’s There There video) is creating the animation and effects for Graham’s In The Morning. In an effort to sprinkle in a few more pieces of motion footage Graham, Team-Coxon and myself all kitted-up and headed into woodland, field and muddy-brook; rummaging in the mudd’ege and frolicking in the nettles-of-sting.  Damn those nettles! I should gain the feeling back in my legs in a few weeks! The others -especially Graham after the final muddy-water-river-scene - are all scarred for life…four days with me can do that to anyone…