You should watch this delightful short film, entitled 'En Skateboardåkares Dagdröm' (or, "A Skateboarder's Daydream", surprisingly), as it is noteworthy for the following reasons:
As previously mentioned in dispatches from this very weblog, Herald stalwart and our 'man' in Scotland, Mr Paul Silvester, has been raiding his collection of MiniDV tapes and filling Herald inboxes with nostalgic webclips.
At the time of going to press, we have no idea if Silky is planning anything more substantial with this material; jungle drums have reported that he may have his hands very full indeed in a few months time.
As a stop gap, Herald Cinema has compiled this collection of misty-eyed memories - 'media offline' messages and poor spelling intact. We do hope you enjoy.
As we are currently a little nostalgic, we would also like to show you this visual sound of Mr Silvester in younger days, reinterpreting the street furniture of the fine city of San Francisco, CA:
This particular entry in the Herald Cinema weblog comes at a time of consolidation; some sort of attempt at archival organisation has led to a bout of nostalgia, notably in the form of the following short film.
This, now entitled "Idle Hands", is Mr Tom Brown's first excursion into the world of filmmaking, and jolly fine it is too.
Following the recent attention from our friends and colleagues over at Sidewalk regarding the Herald Cinema opus, rest assured that there will be more.
Rather than doing any real work, this correspondent has finally got around to posting the Herald Lifestyle Clique's holiday movies. We would also like to apologise for the musical repetition. It simply seemed appropriate at the time.
We must apologise for the prolonged gap in posts recently - this particular lifestyle correspondent has been rather busy involved with a combination of thesepeople and this contraption for many months (since Easter, in fact), and can currently be found working overseas in a particularly pleasant part of the world.
Below is a small piece of video evidence of this correspondent's activities:
Several weeks ago, members of the Herald Lifestyle Clique journeyed to foreign lands on a field trip. Despite including high definition video devices for documentation in the luggage, lifestyling was recorded for posterity on more portable, low-resolution devices as the higher quality imaging contraption was deemed too cumbersome to be carried around despite its entirely reasonable dimensions.
As a result, there is the somewhat lazy 'edit' posted above with a more convoluted 'project' in the works, but time (and sleep) for this correspondent is currently limited largely due to this device.
As usual, stay tuned. Something may turn up eventually.
The inboxes of the Herald Lifestyle Clique Board Of Governors have been besieged of late by missives from one Mr Paul "The Man" Silvester bearing the fruits of his recent labours:
We hope the organisational infrastructure will be in place shortly to allow you good people to enjoy these also.
The cultural behemoth that is 'Fully Flared' continues to exert its influence on the popular media (Ty Evans was recently recruited by London based ad agency JWT for this ad for Aero's "Feel The Bubbles" campaign) in the form of this new edit of the opening titles for UNKLE's release of the track 'Heaven'.
It would appear that the grisly spectre of corporate greed is once again rampaging through the environs of the internet.
YouTube, former home of free speech and expression, has been clamping down on use of copyrighted material in videos uploaded to the site, and recently Herald Cinema - like so many others - has fallen victim to what can only be described as entirely unreasonable mean-spiritedness.
This bout of unpleasantness comes at a particularly inopportune moment as those kind gentlemen over at Sidewalk saw fit to mention the endeavours of this little weblog on their very own website.
So... to explain.
There was a grand total of ten short films up on the Herald Cinema YouTube Channel, but now only eight are viewable. Four of our films have been subject to action on the part of YouTube - two have been blocked entirely - the shorts entitled "Love Power" and "Street Fighting Man" for using copyrighted material by Dusty Springfield and The Rolling Stones respectively; one has been tagged with an advertisement (the recently posted short entitled "HCHD"), and now, to add insult to injury, our most recent piece, the imaginatively titled "Sunday Herald", has had its audio stripped as it uses 'Linus and Lucy' by The Vince Guaraldi Trio in a deliberate homage to Pat Duffy's 'Second Hand Smoke' section - which, incidentally, has also had its audio stripped.
Luckily, there are people out there with deeper pockets than us and have felt compelled to use the piece in their own work; most notably in Spike Jonze'scommercial for Nissan starring none other than Mark Gonzales:
Brains are currently being racked in an attempt to resolve the situation.
Following a short burst of productivity, certain over-exuberant members of The Herald Lifestyle Clique having been applying pressure for the following shorts to be brought to your attention.
The first features the stylings of Mr Doug McLaughlan, "Avid" and the enigmatic legend that is The Mighty Snoz:
Secondly, a short documenting a Sunday afternoon out and about with Messrs Tom Brown and Paul Silvester:
