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Devour

Devour.com is an attempt to curate YouTube, getting rids of the dancing cats and just leaving the fancy stuff. Not bad, if a little snooty.

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6th Aug 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

Expendable

Sly Stallone's certainly pulling out all the stops on the PR machine for The Expendables. Check out their amusing custom YouTube page.

Here's the trailer again. In classic 80's style I'll be renting the VHS of this one.

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4th Aug 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

H.B.O.V.A.

Forget watching any HBO shows legally in the UK unless you've got satellite. Sky has snapped up all of HBO's current and past output, which will become exclusive to the pay-TV channel as current deals expire - for the next 5 years at least.

Scorsese's upcoming Boardwalk Empire looks like a future highlight for the channel, as well as the return of Curb and Bored to Death, but with ITV failing to renew their deal on Entourage and Treme failing to be picked up by anyone yet, Sky is going to be the place you have to go.

With Sky also rolling out their video-on-demand system this looks like a Monopoly-power-play move to add more value to their offering, as they push past the 10,000,000 subscriber mark.

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29th Jul 2010 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet

Superchunk

Arch indie slackers Superchunk are back in business after a near 10-year hiatus. Not that thye've been sitting around - Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan are the honchos of @Merge Records

"Majesty Shredding telescopes two decades into 41 indelible, action-packed minutes. It is the sound of youthful exuberance fine-tuned with grown-up confidence."

Sold. As long as they play Slack Motherfucker on tour.

Pre-order here. Majesty Shredding is out October 4th.

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28th Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

BBC Apps

The BBC has finally got the nod from its Trust to release its highly praised iPad/iPhone Apps. The BBC News app has been available in the US for a while, but had not been available in the UK. That's in the App Store now. BBC iPlayer and Sport apps to follow...

Via BBC (who else?) 

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23rd Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

This Is England '86

Interesting sequel concept from Shane Meadows - a TV series follow-up to his excellent movie This Is England, set a few years later with the same actors reprising their roles. No big deal maybe, except that star-of-the-show Thomas Turgoose was only 13 in the original and now he's 17. See Channel 4's site for more info.

Although that's got nothing on Richard Linklater's forthcoming movie, which has been 12 years in the making....

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23rd Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

Film A Day In Your Life

Ridley Scott is flexing his advertainment muscles again, this time with the help of Kevin MacDonald for an LG-Sponsored project with YouTube: LIFE IN A DAY.

It's a pretty neat and simple concept - film your day and the 'most compelling and distinctive footage' will be assembled into a film documenting 24 hours on Earth, which is slated to be screened at The Sundance Film Festival. Not bad.

The only problem is what to do during your day in order to make it into this crowd-sourced Koyaanisqatsi. I had a day in front of the TV pencilled in, but that isn't going to impress anybody. I just might have to fake doing something interesting.

Some FAQs here.

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22nd Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

8-Bit London

8-Bit map of London 

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21st Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet

Mercury 2010

another list of stuff:

Dizzee Rascal – Tongue N' Cheek (4/1)
The xx – xx (4/1)
Paul Weller – Wake Up the Nation (6/1)
Corinne Bailey Rae – The Sea (6/1)
Mumford and Sons – Sigh No More (6/1)
Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can (6/1)
Foals – Total Life Forever (8/1)
Wild Beasts – Two Dancers (8/1)
Biffy Clyro – Only Revolutions (8/1)
Villagers – Becoming a Jackal (10/1)
Kit Downes Trio – Golden (10/1)
I Am Kloot – Sky at Night (10/1)

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21st Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet