Last week I was lucky enough to be lent a Canon 550d (Rebel T2i in the States) by a friend so that I could have a play about with the high definition video capabilities of Canon’s latest high end comsumer digital SLR, and the results are the video above. This post is basically some thoughts [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Waves and Particles – Canon 550d DSLR Video Test
Posted in video DSLR, tagged 550d, camcorder, canon, film, filmmaking, HD, HD-DSLR, video DSLR on April 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Climategate: The Oxburgh Enquiry and the BBC’s Usual Bullshit
Posted in climate change, media, tagged bbc, climate change, climategate, CRU, media, oxburgh, peiser on April 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
During the time that I’ve not been writing, the so-called Climategate ‘scandal’ has been one of the major talking points regarding climate change and the media. In a fairly sickening way it’s a really interesting example of how communication can be distorted by a combination of willing idiots and paid PR people who have an [...]
Commonwealth – Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Posted in activism, book review, politics, tagged activism, commons, commonwealth, communism, Hardt, multitude, Negri, Th on April 13, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Commonwealth is the third in the series of socio-political analyses from Hardt and Negri which began with Empire (2000) and continued with Multitude (2004). To briefly summarise the series so far; Empire provided an overview of the changes to the structures of power and economic forces from the 1980′s onwards which Hardt and Negri characterise [...]
The Voter Power Index
Posted in politics, tagged politics, UK election, voter power index on April 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
According to this, living in North-West Bristol my vote is worth just 0.521 of a vote. More shocking than that though, is the fact that this is apparently over twice the average amount of voting power of most UK citizens (the average is 0.253). At first glance this is really useful way of illustrating the [...]
Writing Again
Posted in personal on April 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Well it’s been over six months since I last wrote anything here… Well in fact since I wrote anything at all. It’s been a pretty hard time for me, with an operation in October to remove the plate and nine screws from my left leg and then another operation to reconstruct my medial collatoral ligament [...]
