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HISTORY CHANNEL

Saved on 18/07/2008

D+Cineastes who haven’t already visited the Bill Douglas Centre at Exeter University will no doubt be inspired to after watching a new box set of the revolutionary director’s work. Douglas grew up in poverty in a mining village near Edinburgh and his childhood experiences were made into...

HISTORY CHANNEL

SCHOOLS OF FISH

Saved on 17/07/2008

Students from Ridgeway School in Plymouth recently won a European competition with their film about global warming. About 16 pupils of all ages used modelling clay to show how climate change affects the seas around us. The six-minute flick, called Our Coast, Our Sea, Our Planet, starred an octopus, seahorses,...

SCHOOLS OF FISH

Bats in the bedroom

Saved on 17/07/2008

For the last fortnight I haven't been able to go to bed without having to shoo...

Bats in the bedroom

PLYMOUTH’s PAST

Saved on 16/07/2008

You know you’re getting old when archive footage starts looking contemporary - and when policemen start looking dandy. So it’s refreshing to hear Plymouth Arts Centre is offering you a sofa and a biscuit to watch rare archive footage of Plymouth and the surrounding area. There are around...

PLYMOUTH’s PAST

The Big "Push" Tour

Saved on 16/07/2008

This afternoon I, along with many existing .Mac subscribers, received a surprise e-mail from Apple!MobileMe Services Are Now Available.We have recently completed the transition from .Mac to MobileMe. Unfortunately, it was a lot rockier than we had hoped.Although core services such as Mail, iDisk, Sync,...

The Big "Push" Tour

Topping out

Saved on 16/07/2008

Well it's happened. The crane arrived two hours late but three hours later all seven trusses were in place, some temporary cross timbers banged in, and the ceremonial oak branches secured at the apex of the threshing barn and the roundhouse. The trusses looked so huge on the ground, but the crane's...

Topping out

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN/WOMAN?

Saved on 15/07/2008

We can’t help but feel that this film puts us in the realm of a public information broadcast, but Have you seen this man/woman? This would-be prologue to a Jim Jarmusch-esq crime caper is the newest piece of work that we just happened to stumble upon from Exeter-based Josh Gaunt of Syndrome Pictures. In...

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN/WOMAN?

Wii Got Motion

Saved on 15/07/2008

The following statement is -- in its entirety -- Nintendo's announcement of MotionPlus for Wii:"Nintendo's upcoming Wii MotionPlus accessory for the revolutionary Wii Remote controller again redefines game control, by more quickly and accurately reflecting motions in a 3-D space.The Wii MotionPlus accessory...

Wii Got Motion

# 2 roof...

Saved on 15/07/2008

...not second in status like number two wife courtesy of...

# 2 roof...

YOURTUBE - COOMBESHEAD COLLEGE

Saved on 14/07/2008

For all you who want to get into to TV production, listen up. Chris Adams and Gillian Webster are taking a group of 15 to 19 year olds in the YourTube TV production project which is taking place at Coombeshead College, Newton Abbot, TV studio between July 28 and August 1. All you need to do [...]

YOURTUBE - COOMBESHEAD COLLEGE

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