For many, many years this server lived on GoDaddy hosting, I’ve now moved it to my test-bed Amazon instance. Mainly because my old hosting was coming up for renewal but it makes sense to consolidate things. Of course the danger is I suddenly get a spike in readership and Amazon land me a hefty bandwidth bill. I’ll sleep easy.

I’m guessing Universal are probably none to happy about this viral. Produced by Swizz Beatz, he got his (Universal signed) mates Diddy, Kanye West and Will.i.am to appear along with a host of cameos. Read more here.

MEGA UPLOAD SONG!!!! HTTP://OKFOC.US from OKFocus on Vimeo.

I’m of course not condoning Megaupload in any way, their intentions didn’t exactly appear altruistic.

Every pensioner needs a gnome…

As a general rule I hate Christmas songs, yeah yeah bah humbug and all that. Other than Cliff Richard (who’s records should be smelted down to make Tupperware), it’s more the repetition that wares on me, the foot-long play lists of seemingly every radio station during the festive furlong. Anyway I’ve gone off on a tangent, all I wanted to do was post a video of some nice girls singing a classic Christmas song to disprove my hum-buggery.

This song is from Fun.’s forthcoming album ‘Some Nights’ out on Feb 21st. They are touring the US until May, maybe then they’ll visit our shores, who knows. If you like, have a listen to some of their other tracks on their MySpace and as always if you like so much your willing to part cash then do so – you can pre order the album on their website

Fun.: One Foot by Fueled By Ramen

Tim Minchin composed and performed this song for the Christmas edition of the Jonathan Ross show, but alas ITV got cold feet and cut it from the show. Shame.

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I was lucky enough to get to see a preview screening of the new Tintin movie this morning. Unusually for an advanced screening there is no embargo on reviewing the film. I will leave the expert analysis to them-that-are-qualified but suffice to say the CG is mind-blowingly good. A combination of realistic lighting and full body / facial tracking of the actors makes it incredibly lifelike yet I understand it’s completely CG no composite scenes etc.

In summary it’s well worth a visit to the cinema.

When I got back home I had a search to find out more on the making of the film and came across this video attached below. Amazing how they can see rough versions of the rendered scene live as the actors do their thing, especially the handheld point-of-view screen. One thing of I spotted that confused the hell out of me was at about 22 seconds in (after the foreign ad you get at the beginning) where Snowy is attacking, as Snowy stand-in is being exited from the scene the prop guy lets go of it and it appears to run off to the left in a life like fashion. I am probably just seeing things, either that or its amazingly good animatronics or maybe, just maybe, its magic.

You’ve probably seen it somewhere in the recent press, Vice blogged about the auditioning of young East Londonites to appear in a new MTV reality show. MTV werern’t looking for any kind of East Londoner but the kind that ‘subvert people’s expectations of the scene’, anyway, it got dubbed ‘The Only Way Is Dalston’ or TOWID as Claire puts it. Now they’ve followed this up with a mock-trailer, video attached below.

The latest news/gossip is our very own Shacklewell Arms has been approached as a filming location, I can hardly take the excitement.