I saw the new Kylie video on Box the other day (albeit from the other side of a bar). I was told it was good for multiple reasons (pun intended) and soon found out why. The video is of Kylie walking around a French street, in a large circle. When she gets back to where she started another Kylie pops out of a shop, and they walk together. By the end there are five of them walking.

It’s a bloody good video, partly because of Kylie and partly because everytime I see it I notice something new. Other things dupe as well. Traffic wardens multiply; poster guys clone, etc. It’s all very cool.

I have a vague interest in sfx for video and things like that - I sometimes get challenged to “prove how a video’s fake” by my mate who finds odd videos on the net (guy getting run over by bus, etc.) - so I just spent the past half hour or so looking at this and how they did it.  It’s all bloody clever and when you watch it, fairly seamless. Although you can see some oddities, like the perspective’s all mucked up where some people should technically have just walked through a car, etc. Still - effective video!

Sorry, am boring you already

There was a “storm” this weekend. Saturday night ended up at Lee-on-Solent. In the time it took to get from Gosport Wetherspoons to Lee it had gone from clear, dry and a light breeze to pissing it down, and very strong winds. There was also a mni tornado in Portchester (a few miles thataway) Friday afternoon. All very miserable.

This was the highlight of my weekend. We haven’t had a proper thunderstorm for years. Where’d they all go? I remember seeing fork lightning at least once every year, and some really loud storms but in the past five years or so it’s been quiet. I suspect a conspiracy.

I made an impulse buy Saturday afternoon and picked up some ProPlan tablets from the counter at Asda. I suffer from drowsiness most of the day regardless of whether I’ve had 4,8 or 14 hours sleep. I have done for a year or more now. They seem to work okay, although I’m still quite tired

Oh yes. Gratuitous link to new site. If you have a blog, *please* submit your site. That way it’ll grow. Even if you submit your site now it can only get bigger, right?

Posted October 28th, 2002 in Uncategorized.