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Some stuff I did linky round up

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

I Spot Fanboys

Another I Spot produced for E4 with David Stevenson – actually probably my favourite of the lot – I remember writing the first draft in a frantic two hours of typing – ranting about all the geeks I knew. Jilly Cooper, in her book Class, wrote some great stuff about how the layers of social class are like the stripes on rugby shirt that’s been in the wash. Where the colours bleed into each other there’s the most friction. I’m like that with nerd culture, I’m screaming “I’m not as geeky as THESE people” when I very nearly am.

Anyway – we produced it nearly 18 months ago and it’s only gone live now, so if there’s no references to iPads then you’ll know why.

http://www.e4.com/wtf/fanboys/index.html

My penis brings all the girls to the yard
Woke up one Sunday morning with this in my head. Not that you’ll want to think of me with a morning glory as that would turn your stomach. So I nicked some comedy cock gifs off the b3ta board to make it into a tribute to b3ta and not an icky celebration of my love torpedo. BTW: It’s on vimeo because youtube booted it. The spoilsports.

You Are a Spamming Cunt
Produced to post on the b3ta links board when we get spammed.

I feel awkward when blokes talk sport
I was walking the kids to school and thinking about how I can’t drive and started writing some lyrics about the subject. Thought about how cars are a classic male conversation which lead me onto the ultimate bloke conversation I never feel part of: football. Lucy drew the characters for the video.

Linky Update – Two projects and some ego press

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Birthday Cats

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A song / video produced for JibJab by me and Dave. This is the second version (they hated the first version), and I thought up the rough idea for the video in Old Street tube station 1hr before the first Sickipedia night. I was waving my fingers around going, “it could be like this!”. For the actual production Dave drew some lovely kittens, we stuck them to his hands and I tried to keep the camera still so I’d be able to edit it together. BTW: My favourite line in this is “Happy Birthday, it’s catty purrday!” which comes from a joke I have with my 4 year old son about giving our cat Rocky a birthday.

Watch ‘Birthday Cats’


Alien at the Bottom of the Garden

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To support a Channel 4 TV program Generation XXL – about overweight children – C4 asked me to produce a tamagotchi style game on didn’t mock the subject matter. A pretty difficult brief for me so I dragged in Matt Round and it was his brilliant insight that making the main character an alien would solve many of the problems. Well done Matt!

Play ‘Alien at the Bottom of the Garden’


Ego press – not sure why but there was a tiny flurry of mentions of B3ta and myself in the press at the end of 2009.

Keith meets Keith and I Spot Credit Crunch

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Recently did the break bumpers (bits played before the ad breaks) for C4 documentary Keith meets Keith where Keith Allen (dad of Lily as now any mention of him in the the press is legally obliged to mention) met booze enthusiast and TV chef Keith Floyd.

Poor old Floyd died an hour before transmission, which alarmed me as I briefly wondered if he’d got into such a rage over my slightly piss-takey titles that he’d keeled over and it was all my fault. But no, the producer assures me that Floyd watched a preview DVD a week before and had given it the thumbs up.

For background research I read David Pritchard’s Shooting the Cook – which in a happy bit of luck was laying on my desk after a visit to an old school friend who works for the publisher “I think you’ll enjoy this Rob.” I did.

I Spot Credit Crunch

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Another I Spot book produced by me and Dave Stevenson for E4. We enjoyed writing the jokes for this – hope you like it.

Read it on the E4 site.