Videos

Videos: PDiddy at Downton Abbey

Have you seen the hilarious video of PDiddy at Downton Abbey?  Sounds an incongruous mix, doesn’t it?  But it’s real laugh-out-loud stuff.  Watch it here and enjoy!

Reading & Videos: An interview with Lee Radziwill by Sofia Coppola and Nicky Haslam

We were fascinated by an interview of Lee Radziwill (Jackie O’s sister) by Nicky Haslam in the NYTimes’ T Magazine last weekend, together with an accompanying video interview by Sofia Coppola.  She’s disarmingly frank about touring with Truman

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Viral video: Caine’s Arcade (or how to beat the January blues)

If you’re feeling the January blues then here’s a video to cheer you up: the very sweet Caine’s Arcade. (P.S  You won’t be the only one, it’s had over 3 and a half million hits).

Videos: the alternative Obama/Romney debate

How funny is this video of bad lip-syncing of the Obama/Romney Us election debate?  It looks so real!

Videos: Olympic pleasures – Team GB divers and US swimmers perform Glee style sing-a-longs

Well, if you have to be in the UK over the summer holidays, braving yet another week of lousy weather, then you might as well have the TV on 24/7 for the Olympics. And, as we’ve discovered, the more you… Continue reading

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Watch this: Spike Jonze and Olympia Le Tan’s short film

This short film, Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side), made by film maker Spike Jonze and designer Olympia Le-Tan, is completely charming. It’s a stop-motion animation film made with 3,000 pieces of felt, all cut out by… Continue reading

Music: Águas de Março by Tom Jobim and Elis Regin

Whilst travelling in Brazil a few years ago, I fell in love with bossa nova, one of my favourite being this song from Elis Regin and Tom Jobim. Two of South America’s most famous singers and composers, it was recorded… Continue reading

Music: Sam Taylor – Wood’s video for REM

Watch this, here, and smile. And yearn. It’s Sam Taylor-Wood’s video for REM’s new song Uberlin. You can see why she fell so hard for Aaron Johnson, can’t you. How fabulously unselfconscious, charismatic, athletic and just a bit… Continue reading

Video: Winnebago Man

This is a cult classic: a video cut together from the outtakes of an RV promo. This guy, Jack Rebney, since dubbed “the Angriest Man in the World” (try googling it), could be straight out of a David Mamet script.… Continue reading