About the project – It’s a ten minute short film shot on HD on location in London. Entitled ‘Lunch Date’ it follows this plot:

2011 was supposed to be Annabel’s year. So why is she here, sitting in a restaurant, being told by a thirteen-year-old that her boyfriend, Thomas, doesn’t want to see her anymore.

The small messenger is Wilbur. He has agreed to break the news as payment for borrowing Thomas’s tent. But dispensing with Annabel proves a bigger challenge than Wilbur had anticipated.

If you want to help fund it (or just find out more) – you can do so here.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1758348030/lunch-date-a-short-film/widget/video.html

More updates to come. Here is where I’ll be swimming:

This is where I grew up:

and this is where I’ve just moved to:

Brilliant!!!

1. Run a half marathon

2. Swim to the Isle of Wight – from the UK mainland

3. Grow a beard

4. Help fund something on kickstarter

5. Get a personal project up and running (slightly ambiguous i know – but i don’t want to give too much away yet)

Restore some old chairs that I found at a junk sale (I hope when I’m finished they’ll look something like this):

So there you have them – my new years resolutions. Perhaps a little ambitious to complete all of them – but even if I get half way, I’ll be pleased. Oh – plus I’m getting married in the summer. I don’t think I can count this as a resolution (without getting my ass kicked by my mrs to be) but it will certainly occupy a fair amount of my time.

Finally I managed to get to an Internet Week event after missing Tuesday’s apparently brilliant Metaphwoar. It was ‘Creative Social presents the Future of Advertising and featured some great talks from some of the worlds most innovative creative directors.

Technology was a huge focus for the majority of the night – with some particularly interesting points from Work Club’s Andy Sandoz who wrestled with the concept of humans becoming machines (heavy stuff for what was supposed to be a talk about advertising).

Another great talk that wasn’t quite so reminiscent of a Terminator movie was Sam Ball’s insight into the gaming world, looking at behavioral pattens of gamers all over the world and the impact that games have on our behavior as consumers. One particularly interesting point he made was that people in certain communities would earn real money within these games (farming for gold, harvesting crops etc.)  whilst gamers in other communities would happily spend real money to skip the monotony of these same tasks, in effect developing their own economic systems within the platform. Certainly food for thought.

Hopefully videos of the talks will be uploaded at some point. In the mean time you can view Andy Sandoz’s presentation here.

“Collaboration between Skyence (Hamburg) and Johannes Timpernagel (Berlin).
Animation generated in VVVV, Editing in After Effects.”

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