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About
Between the ages of 5 and 7 and a half, Simon was only fed round foods, which has left him with an irrational hatred of globes.
Not exactly true, but still made me laugh.
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Suspect Ratio - A Guide to Widescreen
Last weekend, I finally got around to rendering and posting the latest Image Dissectors video, which is the first one to feature me doing anything other than pulling stupid faces. I tell you what, trying to present something to camera like this without fluffing your lines is quite a challenge.
This one is all about aspect ratios, i.e. the shape of TV and film programmes. Weirdly, despite people thinking widescreen televisions are cool, I’m surprised how many people still don’t really understand what widescreen even is, hence this little video, which is probably destined to get about 4 views in total.
As is always the case with these things, there are always bits that I would have liked to improve, but I think I’m generally pleased with the finished film. I still can’t decide whether the title is quite right. I never know what to call videos - you can either go for a “does what it says on the tin” title like “Weird-looking man talks about widescreen” or something a little less obvious that searches probably won’t pick up, as here. I suppose that’s the reason for these: http://www.imagedissectors.com/article/16
The title theme for this installment, incidentally, is a piece of test card music called “Angry”. This is an arrangement by ”Oscar Brandenburg”, a pseudonym of Neil Richardson, the guy who wrote the Mastermind theme tune amongst lots of other splendid ditties. He was a terrific orchestrator as well.
Some of his other test card pieces can be heard here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHpeqlk4rI0 and there are also two rather good Chandos records of the originals available. You will probably have heard these pieces before, even if you’re under 50, as they often turn up in the background of TV shows about the 1950s and 60s.
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my dad ate a cucumber today and he was like “wow this is pretty cold” and then he just slowly put the cucumber down and stared into space for a really long time until he turned to me with wide eyes and quietly said, “oh my god. cool as a cucumber.”
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