Parody and when to not look into a horses mouth..

parody |ˈparədi|
noun ( pl. -dies)
an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.

I am loving the seesmic films that have sprouted after yesterdays crash.. It is linked here if you havn’t seen it.

Here are a couple of the parody’s posted so far..

There has also been talk of a Land Rover Fund and whilst I am sat at my Grand Mothers (an 83 year old Italian woman who makes killer pizza named Ofelia) she has seen a couple of people talking of a collection so I can get another sensible vehicle. This is amazing to her and she is more than a little shocked that a website made up of people I mostly haven’t met are considering helping me in acquiring a new car..!

I said they were joking but she said “Never look a gift horse in the mouth” or words to that effect. She actually said, “Never look in a horses mouth”, but i know what she means..

So i am not.. Perhaps I am being cheeky by posting this chip-in link here.. but hey-ho.. I did just get a repair quote for £6780.. and that pretty much means my Land Rover is a write off.. I can’t ever imagine getting another in the same condition for what i paid for this one.. Not unless someone out there knows the folks at Land Rover and they want to use my original post for marketing..

I do feel like it saved my life.. But whether i could ever get another.. who knows..

Crash!

Whilst i wait for a lift to the hospital.. Here is a record of what happened today..

Work in progress, streaming live with Qik.

I have been playing with a video streaming mobile phone application called QIK (pronounced quick). This enables me to stream live video from my Nokia N95 straight to the web and simultaneously hold conversations with people viewing on Qik’s site.

As you chat and explain what you are up to, little text comments scroll up onto your phone screen and a real time conversation is possible with anyone in the world who is viewing your video on Qik. As an added bonus as soon as you film you can notify anyone following you on twitter that you are live and as soon as you stop filming the video is also sent to Seesmic.

Not content with all that exposure I have also embedded the clip here below…

Our Man Inside - Twitter

I was listening to a podcast from the late great Philosopher Alan Watts and as my twitter stream passed before my eyes, his words just seem to fit.
He had a beard, I have a beard and the tweeting you can hear is that of the Bearded Tit.
(Pun Intended.)

What is a Freegan (A short video introduction to Freeganism)

Here as promised is the first Freegan installment in the shape of a very short video introduction to Freeganism and what Alf as a Freegan believes in.

Different people follow freeganistic principles for different reasons but I am sure you will agree that Alf’s ideals make more than a little sense.

Hopefully soon I shall edit the audio podcast that goes into much more detail and post it to Documentally.com

Should you want more information on freeganism please check out www.freegan.org.uk

Please leave a comment if you wish and don’t forget that there will be an audio interview (with much better sound) coming soon…

(note: I know there is an annoying high pitched sound in the background.. I think my camera is up it… I will sort it for next time.)