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Jaws Benton

There are probably going to be hundreds of these, but I couldn't help myself ...   [youtube width="620" height="360"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzYwVUrgnpo[/youtube]

Occupy London

A fortnight ago I visited Occupy London and interviewed some of the protestors. Listen here to what they had to say: DFOccupiesLondon.mp3

What President Obama Is Reading

Read into it what you will ...   The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria. Amazon says: "This is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else". So begins Fareed Zakaria's important new work on the era we are now entering....

Stupid Facial

A few years ago I was looking at a website about the early silent comedies and read an interview with Paul Merton. (I can't remember what the website was). He described some of the first ever films, called, regrettably, 'facials'. These would involve a close-up of...

The Voiceover Experience Part II

Most sessions go well. Most producers and most performers are lovely, talented, sensible people. But every now and then you get a difficult one. In the ten years or so around the turn of the century, voice of Ferrero Rocher Jonathan Kydd probably recorded more v-os...

The Voiceover Experience Part I. Stan Freberg.

Stan Freberg is American author, recording artist, animation voice actor, comedian, radio personality, puppeteer and advertising creative director . Now in his 80s he is still working in this business some 70 years after entering it.          ...

Part 1 Of Frisby’s Greatest Ever

Part 1 of Frisby's Greatest Ever is now live online: [youtube width="640" height="360"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dflf0xrERQs[/youtube]   Brendon does a post about it here. Enjoy ...    

Fiat Money

The gap between rich and poor is the widest it’s ever been in history. And it keeps on getting wider.   Plato is purported to have said (but I can’t actually find the quote) that , ideally, the person at the top of an organization should earn 6 times more than...

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