Dodo Lantern referbishemnt 2010

Hello one and all! One event I help out with and participate in is the annual Lantern Festival every September at Ulverston, Cumbria. Here the video I shot last year with an ordinary point and shoot camera.



A quick note on the construction of these lanterns, they are produced by the cutting and taping willow withies into different shapes, then tissue paper is added with diluted PVA glue (half and half mix of PVA glue and water) Illumination comes from a candle installed in the main body of the Lantern (LED light is used in lanterns where narrow spaces where a candle would result in buning the lantern) Each year there are different theme for people to build lanterns (In 2009 it was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, This year was Circus of Dreams)

Last year I produced the Dodo featured in this video. I had originally wanted to have it with wings extended and looking back the top of the head wasn't very well illuminated by the candle installed in the belly of the lantern.

For this year I wanted to create the wings I originally planned for and add LED lighing into the Dodo for non-candle based illumination (much safer for indoor display)

Here we see the Dodo's wings half completed.


Side view.


Front right view. To be able to work a little easier I tempoarally added a side stand on the rear right of the lantern so I wouldn't have to keep propping the Dodo against tables and chairs.


Scale view, The Dodo is on a table but this gives you an idea of the size of my lantern.


Video of the referbishment of the Dodo, partly completed.

After a few more hours of manipulating the withies, liberal use of masking tape, instalation of LEDs and gluing up of tissue paper results in the final lantern!


Front three quarter view.


Side view


Rear view, I'm quite happy with the details on the wing tips for the feathers.


Close up of the head of the Dodo.


Front view to the left of the Dodo.


A video of the complete lantern. This shows there some of the LEDs are inside the Dodo.

I hope you have enjoyed this showcase, if you are in the North West of England it's something I would reccomend for anyone the participate in for next year!

And now for me acting like an idiot! Enjoy!



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Argument_2-9-10

Another day, another argument! This one about the apparent death of physical media according to Apple and idiots!



Enjoy!

Word Practice 13-6-10

these words that I type may never be read by another human, No! I shall not limit myself to say no human, nothing shall read this. As I type I only look at the keyboard and nothing else. From a moment to moment point I only know what is and not what was or shall be. I do have a general asumption that what I type is lead by my sole experieces and how I inturprut them but also I haven't planned this out as this is a free writing session.

Reguarding any puncuation, Grammar or spelling errors I can only know what I type from a moment to moment basis. I might spot a word typed wrong and endevor to remover that error but I only look at the keyboard! So any half thoughts, missplacement of words or subtext is on a moment to moment bassis.

Fuck I looked up. But I carry on for that moment has gone and I continue with what I speak..

This is an exersise in re aquainting myself with sitting infront of a computer to write. For the past several weeks, I have been working on a production where I need to get my ideas across in a very clear and quick medium and I have somewhat have lost that skill, To sit and tyope. For the moment I sit here In my office in Lancaster getting used to typimng again as I have only really used a laptop for work and I want to be able to sit down infront of a computer with the sole intwention to write words.

With that being said, why should I sit down to wqrite with a keyboard? couldn't i only give have thoughts in a text or e-mail. No! with the world moving so fast mone's words need to carry meaning! In conversation my words have a fullness which I chose to use as it engages those with what I have to say. to instant message, everyone needs to be reactive to what is going on in the converstion. To answer questions on a moment to moment basis, These words don't carry weight to them.

(goes for drink)refreshed, I may continue.

The words that spin in my head are clarity. The wod has to be my point that I must pursue...

ok that is aload of bullshit with me trying to get back into this line of thought The real reason why I sit here, going word per word is simple. Action, consiquence. I might have a good idea what I'm going to say but until I sit here and type out these words (the one's you are reading) I don't know what is going to be next! for goodness sake I could throw a panda into the conversation right now! But I won't as that would be silly...

I worry that my words don't have meaning if I uload them to the internet. so the only way I thought I could do it is to keep looking down and never look back and say "oh, that's my old work, I'm working on something super awesome" and then I just keep seeing other people doing stuff that is what I was going to do. The Brian Wilson effect id you will reguarding his magnum opus Smile. But ulitmatly what I have learn't is that it's only copying if I do what I did before! I can do new exciting, embrasing my ideas with the knowledge that it will have been said because I say it with my voice. Or do I?

Because I need to say that me, the me on the on the outside might be a bit odd or strange. But it is all an act! I need to present mysef in the "ordinary" world as somewhat normal, and for the most part I do this very well. but for me to truly be free to do what I need to do, I need to be able to let me be me. It might not match, it might not work BUT! I will be doing whzt I do and that is the best I can do it.

So please don't run away and say Peter is strange. Everyone just needs to get over each other and see what good there is in everyone and accept that I might just be strange. I'm still me and what I do is good! If I worry about what I'm doing and what everyone else is thinking then I'm not going to be me! I'm going to me the restranded me and you will only get part of the experience. I and don't like that!

I do it so then I can be my best. If I don't fit with you then it might just mean we don't fit... But I am willing to be what you want me to be so long as you know that when you want the best I MUST BE ME, TRULY!

Typed between 10:50pm to 10:43pm, 13-6-10 by Peter Adams

What A minute!!!!

I have a BLOG!!?!? I must update this, I guess

Yeah, sorry everyone who might be watching. I might start talking again after I spent half an hour making sure that I didn't haven't tones of SPAM in the comments.

Maybe I will do a blog roll next post!

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100th post!

And I'm going to talk about my experience with Swine Flu!*

*might not have been swine flu...

It's was misserable, it's not even a proper illness. Back in 08 (I think) I have that flu bug and that kept me in bed, which wasn't to bad as I did feel ill. But Sweine flu, it's doesn't get you completly so I tried doing work and after two weeks of coughing I was bored as heck!

Yeah, this post was kind of dissapointing... Roll on post 1000!!!

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Slightly depressed

First I have a splitting headache for two days, this morning my voice was mess up like I smoked 60 a day then this.

Why does this keep happening!? This looks so boring, why does Hollywood keep doing this??? Zombies are awesome as they are a reflection on humanity and people in general. But if it's not a fight for survival then no good.

Well I guess I will need to do something about that...

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I have WAY to much free time

Right, assuming that in the greater land mass of Britain is roughly 800,000 miles, this includes England, Wales and Scotland (sorry Ireland, come the next ice age though!) NOW, we are told that the roads are clogged up with cars but this is complete rubbish as I will now show...

Assuming a typical car is 20 foot long, some longer (buses, lorries, vans) some shorter (city cars, etc, etc) but on average I think it's a good number. There is 5,280 feet in you're average mile (according to my lappy's length calculating thingy) There are roughly thirty four million cars on the roads today. Now we have the numbers, time to do the math!

Right! multiply the length of car to the number of cars or L*N resulting in the number of feet of cars on the road which we will call X Take X and devide that by the number of feet in a mile which we will ∑.

The formula looks like this

(L*N)
___
∑

The magic number that we arrive at is 128,787 miles worth of cars, now that is allot of cars BUT that leaves 671,213 worth of tarmac. Also thinking that no one will be willing to test out my theory by getting every car bumper to bumper then I feel pretty safe with this number though if you do have more accurate numbers then feel free to keep them to yourself. If you want to ask me any questions about why on earth I would be at all interested in answering the trivial question well, yeah... I don't know!

Cherrio!

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Saturdays morning cartoons

Can't, Stop, WATCHING!!!



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Comic Strip - 14-2-09

Zero tolerance with me for those who can't make it in time...

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Interview №4983172

This looks like it could be on E4! or am I just insane??!?!

Any TV executives out there who want to give me a couple of grand for development? can't promises a TV show or web thing, but hey that is life *run of singing

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Fanackering

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A world of collaboration - my adventures

Sorry that My past posts have been rather sparse in their content. I'm hoping to become more proactive in blogging as allot is happening this year so I will be posting more than once a month LOL

Anyways, on with the post. Just as a side note, the end of 2008 was just crazy, from October onwards I have been all over the place not to mention the IWM student film festival fun. So in the past three months I have made plans for three feature length productions (writing, designing and acting as producer) The ball is going to start rolling come February on all three at the same time and I'm ready! But these three productions all stand on their own in their complexity and message.

With a residential Guerilla Film-making course up at Ambleside at the end of October has yield new collaborations with young people in the North West of England (they are like rooster teeth up here!) no longer can I sit on my ass thinking up cool ideas, I have to keep up now which is really great!

My own personal film project hasn't launched as I have a lack of confidence, yes... It's true. I have had to many ideas to try and keep up in the air is near impossible but with new collaboration comes a renewed desire to visit old notes, scribbles, scripts and even old tests from college. All these ideas for little things and being boiled and reduced down into a thick soup of greatness, pure flavor! no filler! don't think thats how it goes, who cares IT SOUNDS GOOD AS I TYPE xD



So 2009 is shaping up to be a good looking year with equal parts success and failures (I'm a pessimist when no one is looking)

Keep watching!

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Newyear2009

Counting down 2009...

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Christmas 08

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

A Hero

Oliver Postgate

1925-2008

You will always be in our hearts!

Avanti Music Video

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trash-can-man.com

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A thousand Directions at once

Funny how things happen in my life, for months nothing interesting happens then I'm doing 50 jobs at once...

Ok, so I'm exaggerating a bit, but this month is going to be crazy. First of all I've been helping out on a Gurilla film-making course last month and this which has been a bit of a thrown in the deep end affair and a steep learning curve on education and motivation of other people *I'm just used to talking to myself xS* but it's been fun!

Next, I edited a video for the Imperial War Museum's Student Film Festival, which I got though! so on Tuesday the 18th I will be in London so that should be fun.

Plus I've my own projects that I'm working on so I want to keep those in the air. I've filmed a music video on Wednesday and now I'm editing that (looks good!) and I've two ideas floating in my brain with provisional outlines on paper. So I want to get those down quickly as the beginning of 09 I will be getting some work with a production company near where I am so that is going to be awesome!!!

I have also started the nasty habit if going though podcasts that have been in my iTunes for the past three years (once they were invented) so that is fun and distracting...

So yeah, the year two thousand and nine is really going to be MAD and fun!!!

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Reality suckage - day 8117 of my life

So I've been meaning to post this for a while now but, what the hell better late than never.

So on an unfortunate trip to large mega shopping center in north west England, I wondered into a music shop *guess which one :S* and I took my selection of DVDage to the tills to pay for them (though with hie sight, I would have got a better result if I had walked out the shop setting of the poverty alarm MOTHA FUCKA!!!!) and this is where I start to get pissed of. A spotty teenager is there taking stock, not of the physical variety but of the mind, basically drooling. I try to get his attention by doing a Brian Blessed impression, but to no avail, THEN a totally hot 18 year old girl walks up and is all 'OMG, I R losted in this big shop, can U halp m3 :3' and the god damn speck of a man walks of...

At this point I bellowed with all my might 'GET BACK HERE NOW!' causing for a breath moment, the entire north west of England to fall silent................ then!!!!!! the tiny speck asked ' do you need some help?'

at this point I can go any further as, well, I became incredibly middle class and said 'well erm, can I pay for these?' BUT THEN!!!!!! he said ' well if you want to go over to the tills I will be with you in a minute...

>:O

This makes up only one of the thousands of examples of poor customer care that is now prevalent in this world (or is it just mine?) so yeah, I like computers as they do exactly what I want them to do... most of the time......

But I was pissed, REALLY pissed.

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This mind

For 2 years now, I've been in limbo. Between the past and a new beginning, but always I have been lacking in one thing, the reason to carry on.

Many people will tell you that there are only a few stories in the world, these people are not story tellers. What makes us want to listen to stories again and again are those stories that are rooted in ourselves.

So I need to find that that is linking all of us. And the only way I can do that is to live life, and you can't get that siting at a desk you aren't going to get that.



Like a beach after a storm, the beach has been scoured smooth. So soon my ideas will be no longer disjointed and rough but a solid story. I hope is do this well...

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Asus Eee PC song praising - Day 1

this was a un-expected happening. Me, writing from a new ASUS Eee PC. But hey, what ever... I'm now typing away on the tiny keyboard

So after wondering about Preston's PC World, when I come across a display for the ASUS Eee PC, which for the past few months from the interweb, thinking about having one. Looking at the price, options and why I couldn't have one for such and so reasons. I hadn't had a good go with the Eee PC and after trying the CloudBook running XP I wasn't to impressed with the mini laptop idea. So booting up the Eee PC, the person who was with me wandered over to me and said "OH! thats small!" so I told her about the tiny compy. After a few minutes of giving the pro's and con's (tiny, tiny tiny!!!) she was convinced and I was getting convinced myself. So based on he title of this blog, you can guess the out come xD

So! onto what this blog is really about. What I think of the Eee PC? well, First of all I will tell you about which Eee PC we picked. Well it's 4G in galaxy black, as is to say it's got the webcamera and 512 of ram with a 4 GB SSD. They didn't have any of the 8.9 inch screen ones in but the 7 inch does the job very well. After a few hours and a fair bit of play I think I can start to talk about so things I've found out about (so far...)

First; It's damn small... One of the big selling points of the Eee PC is it's size, or lack there of. it's so compact that you can really take t with you anywhere, weighing in at 0.92 kilograms (2 lbs for those who aren't metric peoples) and fitting in the palm of you're hand makes the Eee PC a no brainer for travelers or those who know the MacBook Air is a rip of (and thats coming from a Mac man)

Second; ease of use... Starting up the Eee PC couldn't be easier. You boot up for the first time and first of all, you notice a lack of noise like nothing, completely silent. The setup wizard is super easy and withing a minute I was done, ready to try out the Eee. The Eee comes loaded with the essentials for the web (firefox) Instant messging (skype and PidGin) office work (OpenOffice) and lots of other stuff. Would have liked to have seen the Gimp already on the Eee, but apart from that, super happy!

Thirdly; It's tiny!!! Ok, so the Eee is tiny, hence the keyboard does feel a bit crapped upon first try. But after a few hours, you get used to it.

Tune in tomorrow as I do such exciting things as download a program and connect a external monitor

P.S I chucked a couple of different video formats including Divx 6.0, MPEG 4 and photoJPEG and they played fine...
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