These stamps are gorgeous aren’t they? Not real unfortunately, and you won’t be licking them onto an envelope any time soon or at all, but they are, nevertheless, gorgeous. They are the work of Clark Orr, who has imagined in the most visually arresting of ways, what an impressive Continue Reading
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Silicon Valley: Changing the Way Things Change (season 4 trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. Mike Judge (Office Space, Beavis & Butthead, King of the Hill) brings his irreverent brand of humor, and his own experiences working in Silicon Valley, to Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2017: Week 1 – Albania, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Cyprus
What is the Eurovision Song Contest? Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open Continue Reading
Go way back prehistorically when with Aardman’s Early Man
SNAPSHOT Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of how plucky caveman Dug, along with sidekick Hognob unites his tribe against the mighty Bronze Age in a battle to beat them at their own game. It Continue Reading
Colony: “Tamam Shud” / “The Garden of Beasts” (S2, E9 & E10 review)
SPOILERS, DRONES AND VINTAGE PLANES, OH MY AHEAD It’s time to dig out all your analogue antiques everyone! While you may love your smartphone, adore your tablet computer and feel joined at the hip to your Netflix subscription, the truth of the matter is that, come the alien apocalypse, all Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Say Yes” & “Bury Me Here” (S7, E12 & E13 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND FUN FAIR ZOMBIES AND BACKPACKS, OMINOUS DEATHLY BACKPACKS* Given that I’ve already made liberal use of the Dickensian idea of a tale of a two episodes, it seems only fair that I not repeat myself by riffing on the same thing, though goodness knows The Continue Reading
Dance your way from A to Z with Disco Grover!
SNAPSHOT Step aside and let the King show you how it’s done. Grover is the King of ABC Disco and he is going to boogie oogie oogie through all twenty-six letter of the alphabet. Watch him get down! I have long been a fan of the absolutely impressive, endlessly Continue Reading
Colony: “Free Radicals” / “Good Intentions” (S2, E7 & E8 review)
“Either some of us die, or all of us die; you get the honour of deciding which of those it’s going to be. ” (Alan Snyder to Bram) It’s been fairly obvious for some time that the time was coming when people would have to make a choice that Continue Reading
Cookie Monster and the delicious history of cookies #nomnomnom
SNAPSHOT Kids try 100 years of cookies with special guest Cookie Monster including mallomars, sugar cookies, nutter butters, macarons, and more. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) If you wanted to learn everything you could be about the last 100 years of cookies, and why wouldn’t you, then the person to Continue Reading
Fascinating fan theories: How The Walking Dead may end
All good things must come to an end. Even the undead shambling across the decaying remains of civilisation items. But while Robert Kirkman says he knows (of course) how the comic strip/TV series will come to an end, and there is high likelihood they will end in different ways, he Continue Reading