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  • Deliveries

    So, not unusually I’m waiting on something I’ve bought to arrive. Seems straightforward enough; order, select next day delivery, pay a little extra for the ‘delivered before 10am’ option. I hate waiting, you see.

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  • Where there’s a Sea…

    Chiron Station

    This weekend is allegedly the release date for the short episode “Where’s there’s a Sea…”, which I’ve been working on all week putting it together. At the moment there’s a few items which the CG guys are working on, which I’ll drop into the edit once they’re finished.

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  • Kid Kirby

    I’ve just been doing some (rare) tidying of the house and an come across the legal disclaimer that I wrote for the Kid Kirby manual. Kid Kirby was a platform game that DMA were doing for Nintendo, before it unfortunately got canned at the eleventh hour. Here’s what I wrote:

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  • Stone Unturned 1 Friday was when I realised that my fifteen minutes had expired. Nick had invited the Courier to come and have a good old look around our filming efforts, and just shortly after I’d been given a lift to the Abbey Theatre, a reporter and photographer arrived. I was prepared for this, of course, feeling as I did that I was something of a veteran after 2006’s little publicity epidemic. (And some of 2007 too).

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  • The Stone Unturned

    I was viciously attacked by a tick a couple of Saturdays ago when I was doing the “Mr Big Shot Director” thing again. Against all common sense,I was lying down in the grass trying to get a good dramatic (too melodramatic!) angle on a couple of the actors. That the grass was above a cave entrance and I have a fear of heights too, meant that I wasn’t really doing myself any favours that weekend.

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  • GTA Remembered

    Today, on the way to work, I saw a special collector’s edition of a magazine in the newsagents and just had to buy it. It was a retrospective of ten years to celebrate GTA, marking the release of GTA IV. So far, nothing odd about that, except that I haven’t played GTA and haven’t actually played much of anything in the last ten years. So why did I consider it a must buy?

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  • No More Intrepid Blog

    Well it looks as though this is going to be my only blog now. I used to have one at the Intrepid site, but the forum feature which allowed it is no longer a paying proposition and Nick isn’t going to renew it. All of which makes life a little easier for me, since I never knew which blog I ought to post stuff in, or whether to duplicate content in the two of them or what.

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  • We were doing some location scouting on Sunday. Part of an upcoming Intrepid story takes place in a cave, and since the caves are supposed to be on a different planet from the last lot of caves we filmed in, they needed to look different. For the episode called Transitions and Lamentations, the cave was really a some rocks which had collapsed together leaving large gaps. It looked the part though and started to flood as the day wore on. We got the shots though. So just in case that wasn’t traumatic enough, the caves we went to have a look at this time were Arbroath. Just outside Arbroath in fact. Right next to the sea.

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