Dan Germain

time lapse beard growth

Time Lapse: My Hairy Commute from :: Fred Abercrombie on Vimeo.

Much respect and hairy salutations to Fred Abercrombie, who filmed his beard growth in a neat, funny way over a couple of months earlier this year.

rolex watches help owen wilson recover from attempted suicide

Just in case you haven't read about how some watches saved Owen Wilson's life, here's the press release. And here's what The Guardian wrote about it.

no man can eat fifty eggs

Inspired by Paul Colman's intrepid four egg stunt, I just spent 10 minutes watching this clip, from what might be my favourite film ever ever.

yet more video

This time it isn't backwards. Instead, it was shot on a mobile phone, by those clever Aliens during a tour.

more backwards video

Courtesy of Ted and M Gondry.

backwards video

I like backwards video. Here's something new by The Aliens:

And something a bit older by The Pharcyde:

ACME climate action

Nice film. The book/box/pack should be interesting. It's something to do with my friend Marcel, with the big hair.

we get bigger grenade launchers

The Beta Band are no longer with us (sob), but it's good to see that The Aliens are keeping up the Beta tradition of making daft little films that don't have anything to do with the music. Here's a recent example:

And here's a great piece of vintage Beta work:

"If you're working from nine to five then coming home to watch shows that your Sky box has recorded for you while you were out, you might as well be on a f**king drip."

My friend Ben points us in the direction of a nice piece in the Guardian by Shane Meadows. It's about his new film This Is England, but also more generally about how life has changed since the 1980s, and about what it was like being a kid then, like I was.

You can read it here. Worth a look.

ripping youtube videos

Something useful that a friend (Adam) sent me the other day - a web thing that converts youtube videos to a few different file formats, so you can put them on your ipod or play them on your computer.

It's called vixy.net

(In the interest of geek fairness, I should say at this point that another solution is available, and it's called Tubesock. I've used it a few times and it works well.)