“Help The Biting of A Mad Dog…”

From the herb garden at Kew Gardens, behind the palace.

Too much time-shifted tv of unimportance

…courtesy of the BBC iplayer, my aerial and old video tape. Random.

* Making Slough Happy (BBC2/2005)
* Russia: A Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby (BBC2/2008 )
* Censored At The Seaside: The Saucy Postcards Of Donald McGill (BBC2/2005)
* I Told You I Was Ill: The Life and Legacy of Spike Milligan (BBC2/2005)
* Imagine – Andy Warhol: Denied (BBC1/2006)
* Horizon – A War On Science (BBC2/2006)
* Munich: Mossad’s Revenge (C4/2006)
* Sleeping With Teacher (C4/2005)
* Walking With Monsters (BBC1/2005)
* Springwatch (BBC2/2008 )
* The Thick Of It (BBC2/2005)
* Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story (BBC2/2008 )
* Imagine – Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and The Brain (BBC1/2008 )
* Classic albums – Nirvana: ‘Nevermind’ (BBC2/2005)

Banksy in Brentford – erased

Banksy did this work near my house on a derelict pub wall a few years ago; unbelievably, it was removed a week or so later. This photograph, by me, is the only record I know of. His mini-stencilled ‘bombs’ are still there, the only other evidence.

Found pinned to a bush, by the river

One book to avoid being in

Waste recycling (9-33 secs each)

Films of a recent trip to a Grundon waste recycling centre, where recycled material is seperated. Some community group photos are also here.

Night manoeuvres (6-15 secs each)

Intelligent Design’s unintelligent PR, and more

Creationism had a PR makeover in recent years – and came back as Intelligent Design. Great. A new movie – which I am loathe to even mention the title of – that helps creates a veneer of ’science’ to this new angle, making out that the scientists in the ID field have been victims of the establishment. The producers of the film hilariously recently barred one of the interviewees in the film – biology professor P. Z. Myers – from attending one its previews, but letting Richard Dawkins in…! Interesting interviews with, and by, Dawkins and PZ Myers about their experiences at premier of said movie: video (9 mins) HERE and an audio interview (50 mins, on the fab Skepticality) HERE. Meanwhile Scientific American magazine had a great overview of the film also – on their podcast (20 mins) HERE; also an hour long discussion with the makers is HERE, and S.A’s Steve Mirsky’s sad findings on the selective quoting of Darwin by the film makers for their own ends (3mins 46secs): HERE.

Isa Genzken: ‘Ground Zero’

Here is my Kultureflash piece on the current exhibition by Isa Genzken; it’s well worth seeing.

More TV of note

Yes, I know: I record & watch too much TV…but here’s an update, ie additions to my list from last january.

* Battlestar Galactica (tv/dvd, 2003 mini-series)
* Battlestar Galactica (tv/dvd, 2004 season 1)
* The Man With The Seven Second Memory (tv/ITV1, 2005)
* The South Bank Show: Kevin Spacey At The Old Vic (tv/ITV1, 2008 )
* Road Rage (tv/BBC1, 2008 )
* The Sopranos (dvd/tv/HBO, series 6)
* Elizabeth 1 (tv/C4, 2005)
* Panorama: Alex James in Colombia (tv/BBC1, 2008 )
* Horizon: Madagascar: A Tree Top Odyssey (tv/BBC2, 2005)
* The Poles Are Coming! (tv/BBC2, 2008 )
* George Melly’s Last Stand (tv/BBC2, 2008 )
* Life In Cold Blood (tv/BBC1, 2008 )
* Horizon: Titan: A Place Like Home? (tv/BBC2, 2005)
* Horizon: The 7/7 Bombers – A Psychological Investigation (tv/BBC2, 2005)
* Horizon: Are We Alone In the Universe? (tv/BBC2, 2008 )
* The Money Programme: Email Is Ruining My Life (tv/BBC2, 2008 )
* Family Guy (dvd/tv/Fox, series 5)
* Timeshift: The Rise And Fall Of The Ad Men (tv/BBC4, 2008 )
* Tales From Europe: Latvia (tv/BBC2, 2005)
* Tales From Europe: Estonia (tv/BBC2, 2005)
* Derek (tv/More4, 2008 )
* The Curse of Steptoe And Son (tv/BBC4, 2008 )
* Frankie Howard: Rather You Than Me (tv/BBC4, 2008 )
* Hancock And Joan (tv/BBC4, 2008 )
* The Mighty Boosh: A Journey Through Time And Space (tv/BBC3, 2008 )
* Broken News (tv/BBC2, 2005)
* Alien Worlds (tv/C4, 2005 )