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Insider lo-fi Viral Complete


I have finished the low-fi, budgetless viral for The Insider Festival. It's got some fairly decent response and has spread fairly well via youtube etc.

Here it is...

Insider Weekend 26th-29th June from Ali Macca on Vimeo.

The insider. Festival fun in the Highlands. Sleep with a spider and eat quails eggs whilst listening to men with long hair play instruments.


Posted on 18 June 2009 | 10:38 am

New Happenings...


Last week I was up in Aviemore filming for a viral. In the process many a mishap happened. We were fortunate only to lose a symbol and stand and not a human life.




Editing of the footage starts in earnest today. I'll keep you posted.

Posted on 21 May 2009 | 10:24 am

Piggin' Flu...


With the news that the UK was ordering 30 000 000 face masks for the swine flu pandemic, I thought there might have been a niche in the market for some designer ones... Unfortunately someone is ahead of the game.

http://www.coolhunting.com/images/pig_mask__code.jpg

I'm sure with a little work there is something to be done with this!

Posted on 29 April 2009 | 8:55 am

Nice video...

I like this video. Some very nice slow motion kit.

http://www.christopherhewitt.com/content/video/Blamma_Blamma-Sparks_Collide.mov

A little slow to load but worth it.

Posted on 20 April 2009 | 1:27 pm

The Wine Shark


I spotted this yesterday. Not only does Co-Op have a fine selection of wines, it also has the one and only wine shark. Check the bottom right of this photo...


A real life wine shark.

Posted on 23 March 2009 | 12:16 pm

Space to Bass

http://www.subcity.org/shows/ladyboydisco/2e9a9/



A link to the RadioFaces mix on Subcity Radio. RadioFaces consist of myself and Kristian Elliot. Excuse the extra noises and add ons by our over exuberant host. We start about 20 mins in.

Posted on 18 March 2009 | 11:20 am

|||| The grid system.

The grid system.



A nice source of inspiration. I like this style a lot, squares and rectangles and visually pleasing layouts.



www.thegridsystem.org

Posted on 23 February 2009 | 12:04 pm

Update to JW Flash player

Just noticed yesterday that the 3d part of the site wasn't working in Safari and Chrome...Sorry if you wanted a look. Needed to update the JW player for some reason. Done now and all should be dandy for 3d viewing.

Posted on 12 February 2009 | 10:13 pm

A Naughty Little Box

Here is a wee photo of a naughty nu rave box I saw in Val D'isere...

http://www.humyo.com/F/8961615-355055229

Posted on 12 February 2009 | 10:08 pm

Painting Pictures with Words

I'm kinda used to making visual pictures but here is my friend Billy (the poet) aka William Lettford painting pictures with words on BBC Scotland. It's one of his short stories, preformed by Billy too. It's pretty awesome, it starts at around 1 min 45 secs in.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00h9dhy/Days_Like_This_Episode_4/

Posted on 9 February 2009 | 8:55 am

VJing In Edinburgh - Sneaky Pete's

VJing in Sneaky Pete's tomorrow night. I'm using Onyx VJ tool, open source Flash based software, open source. It's pretty cool, we'll see how it goes with the first time use tomorrow night. Come down for some CRYPTIK action.

Posted on 6 February 2009 | 9:41 am

Snow Art from Tignes


This is some snow art I spotted whilst boarding in Tignes last week. Naughty naughty, very naughty.

Posted on 6 February 2009 | 9:38 am

The Brigadoon Set

For anyone who stumbles across this site and is in Glasgow on Saturday night and wants to hear music, I will be DJing in Mono from 7pm to 1am. Come one come all, it'll be brand new.

Posted on 16 January 2009 | 10:51 am

The ultimate in Glasgow graffiti




Here is some beautiful Glasgow graffiti. It can be found on Blytheswood Street.

Posted on 13 January 2009 | 6:54 pm

distinct improvement

Finally got round to upgrading the site to valide XHTML... well, every page apart from this one that is. I have the wee badges to prove it. It is quite nice getting awards for your efforts.

Posted on 13 January 2009 | 6:50 pm

new flash animation for CRYPTIK club night


New Flash animation made as part of a number of visuals for an upcoming DJ night called CRYPITK in Edinburgh, hosted at Sneaky Pete's. There will be of more of these types of thing coming up as you canny just have one wee animation playing on loop all night, unless it's accompanying drone or something.



Enjoy.

Posted on 28 November 2008 | 10:08 am