Rollip does one thing, and it does it very well. Taking your original photographs, it will transform them to authentic aged images – even surrounding them in a polaroid style border, then making them available to you to print and put them on your website. As you can see from the results above, the filter [...]

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I go to the cinema a lot, at least once and week, and sometimes twice a week when the releases are coming thick and fast. I’ll watch and enjoy a range of films, from gritty thrillers to foreign cinema to ‘for the kids’ animation. During the last 9 months 3D films have been cropping up [...]

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Red Bubble is a website that allows you to display your photography, illustations and artwork and if you want – sell them as prints, t-shirts, calendars and greeting cards. Because the website does not tie you into selling your work – because some people either sell it already on their own site, or just want [...]

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i stumbled on this blog via twitter and the first post was a little task to do with flickr. you have to go the 6th page of your own photostream and then select the 6th photograph – it may not be your best (mine certainly isn’t) – you should then add the tag ‘flickr meme’ [...]

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i only subscribed to my first podcast around 6 months ago, but i very quickly found the variety and quality of audio content out there rather appealing. so i thought i would share a list of my favourites with you, starting with film podcasts. the film program is bbc four’s half hour show presented by [...]

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i went to see ‘the dark knight’ yesterday evening, a special advance preview at my local cinema – a day before the official release tonight. the film impressed me, it was as good as the first – if not better, and christopher nolan has again raised the bar for superhero films. but what impressed me [...]

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a short while ago i was contacted by a nice chap called scott, and he asked me if he could use one of my photographs [this one] on a dvd case for a new film that was about to be released. he didn’t give me any information, apart from the fact there was no budget [...]

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social networking isn’t new to me, i’ve had a myspace page for a couple of years and i’ve been hooked into facebook for the last few months – it’s a great way of keeping in touch with people – it’s almost how friends reunited should be. but now i’ve started to share my photographs. i [...]

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i’m having a bit of a movie weekend, and it was rounded off with watching this cute little song and dance penguin film which also has a strong environmental theme. sounds like it is trying to do too many things – and that does hurt the story telling. it does make you smile and chuckle [...]

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night watch was probably the best Russian film i’ve ever seen… OK, it was the first and only Russian film i’ve ever seen! But it was an inspired piece of film making from highly acclaimed director / writer Timur Bekmambetov. the sequel’s trailer has just been released on the apple trailers website and it looks [...]

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