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A very good Monday morning to you, and let’s get the ball rolling with a potentially regular feature called – as the title says – “The ParaPod AVBGH – Yeah But…”.
The reason it is only a potentially regular feature is because it relies fully on you saying “yeah but” and then pointing something o...
2022-01-10 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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After the starting likenesses I showed you the other day, I can now show you the finished thing (and the progress).
The progress I've pared right down, because without exaggeration this is the longest it's ever taken me to fill a sheet of A4 paper. I as getting a bit confused because I was working at exactly the sam...
2022-01-09 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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It's not a series I promise.
Here I am again with a special one-off podcast of me playing the autoharp and having a go at singing songs along with it despite my throat being all broken. This is the podcast I was trying to do on Monday but bailed and did Cabin Fever instead, so consider this a straight swap.
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So I want to tell you about yet another potential project I’ve got going on, which may well be a daft/doomed plan.
I mean, it’s definitely daft because I’m currently halfway through Scarecrow Club, ongoing with making and pitching Rocky Robot, ongoing with Cactus Man, ongoing with writing ...
2022-01-07 11:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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This post was gonna be tomorrow to separate The ParaPod posts, but a sprung deadline for Forty20 magazine on a very exhausted boy (me) has flipped Thurs and Fri round.
Not that this information is relevant to the post, you'd be none the wiser, but I'm typing through lead-heavy eyes and just writing every...
2022-01-06 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here, as promised is my commentary over the top of the combined first of the month posts.
Bit puffy-eyed in this as it had been a sad day with a virtual funeral, and I waited as long as I could to record it but there's still some evidence of redness. I'm sure we know each other well enough for this not to be an issu...
2022-01-05 11:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Today we set a new personal best on the drawing front, where I go for a staggering FIVE likenesses in one composition.
It's sort of difficult to fully get across quite how stressful this is. It's in pen you see. So if I get - for example - likeness number four wrong, I lose the lot. It's just a lot of co...
2022-01-04 11:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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It could be argued that I am intentionally making that thing where you can't remember what day it is even worse for you by putting a post that's normally on a Saturday out on a Monday. Yet here we are.
I do explain the switch around in the audio itself, it became a sort of "emergency Cabin Fever" due to a l...
2022-01-03 11:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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Flying by this year innit? Already the second of the month...
Which means we today look at the second part of the Aftermath scene that was deleted from the movie, showing us trying to make some sense of Barry making a scene in the Edinburgh vaults.
You'll see that the mood changes from the initial shock and fr...
2022-01-02 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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A very happy 2022 to all and sundry on here (and just on here, nobody else), and as we are in the aftermath of 2021, I thought it apt to take a look at an aftermath from The ParaPod - A Very British Ghost Hunt.
A tenuous link but I am sticking to it like glue.
So there are really three regular talking point...
2022-01-01 11:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Well, here we are, about to scratch off another year. We know I love a debrief, and this is about as apt as a debrief gets. If only it was actually brief too…sorry about that…
Last year, I spread my yearly look back over several days, but I felt this year I just wanted to fill the festive period with entertainin...
2021-12-31 11:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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Right come on, it's still Christmas in a way, so let's have a little step back and relax video. Well, a relax for you, it took me ages.
I bought this Lego months ago when I was feeling gloomy. If you're ultra hot on the posts on here then you might remember me speaking about the lass in the Lego store who was ...
2021-12-30 11:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hey, we're having a ParaPod heavy Christmas week here eh?
Think that's all ok though. This is a promo podcast that myself and Barry recorded on the same day as the Christmas podcast, which I'm going to release into the wild for all the stragglers early in the new year.
You obviously get it first thoug...
2021-12-29 11:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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After Thomas' ace retrospective and original notes yesterday, today - as promised - I bring you my accompanying liner notes to The ParaPod OST that I gave you on Christmas day. Did you not get me owt?
It’s worth noting I think, quite how complicated this all was. Not only had I never had any e...
2021-12-28 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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As we continue our musical festive break (grumpy puppets yesterday notwithstanding), today I bring you a little pot pour of stuff from Thomas Van Der Ree, the (bound to be) award winning composer of the soundtrack.
I originally asked Thomas is he would send me a paragraph to include in my liner notes, but he was so thorou...
2021-12-27 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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A very happy Boxing Day to you, and here is our traditional festive visit to the puppets in the workshop.
Obviously, because of the soundtrack album yesterday, they had to be bumped from their Christmas Day appearance, but I am sure there have been no issues with that and they will graciously take the still-highly-sought-...
2021-12-26 11:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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Me again.
A very happy Christmas day to you, or just happy Saturday if you’d rather. Whichever it is, I’ve got you a present.
So here, exclusively on this Patreon page that you’d supported so amazingly this year, I am delighted to give you a digital copy of the Official Soundtrack to The ParaPod – ...
2021-12-25 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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Now, I am a bit earlier than normal because 1. you will have been up early to see if he's been , and 2. I have another Christmas present for you in an hour.
I'd already uploaded that, and then Barry said we should record a Christmas podcast for today, so you get double bubble. It's actually the first time we have joint ed...
2021-12-25 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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I managed to get it finished. Actually quite relieved that I did, because I think I'd have been cross if I'd missed out this year.
So the story is by me, and the artwork above is by me. The only thing I don't have for you is a title.
You might see why a title is difficult when you read it, or you might b...
2021-12-24 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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Yes that slightly amended picture above, means we are all in for the treat that is the concluding part of the December edition of the VERY popular feature, Ask Ian.
In the podcast attached to this post, I endeavour to answer the following questions from the following pioneers of inquisition;
Joseph Chapman ...
2021-12-23 11:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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As Christmas is just around the corner, what better way to get us in the/a mood than with one of my long-absent pretend toy unboxing videos.
Today I re-unbox my first ever Hot Toys purchase, all on camera for you to watch and shake your head a bit.
I am spending today and tomorrow desperately trying ...
2021-12-22 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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As we get into the death throes of 2021, what better way to take stock than by listening to me answering questions about 2021 (only some of them were).
In today's first episode, which went longer than I'd planned, we have questions from;
Tim Garrett on Muppets
Janni on creative slumps
Dr Greggle...
2021-12-21 11:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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And we come to the concluding part of the available highlights from The ParaPod Live 2021.
There's a touch more visual stuff in this part, but - again - you'll be able to work it out. He was basically chucking paper aeroplanes into the audience. Quite ineffectually too.
Also, you will hear how q...
2021-12-20 11:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Mate, not messing, I started this at 2pm yesterday and it's now 5am today. Other than nipping to the supermarket for an hour, I've worked solidly on it. I knew it was a potentially big job but I really, really didn't think it was gonna take that long.
But I'm very happy with it, and it's up there amongst the f...
2021-12-19 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here I am, bright and bushy tailed, with the last Cabin Fever before Christmas, and - as a result - I bang on about Christmas loads.
There is a bit of peripheral noise in this as I had to record it in my art room/Echo Base to try to get away from some drilling. You can still hear the drilling a bit. I...
2021-12-18 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here we are with the penultimate bit of highlights from The ParaPod Live Show 2021, which was all the way back in...I want to say May?
In this bit, Barry attempts to start his featured haunting, although he is a little confused as to what format it is going to take... we also spend a bit of time going through wha...
2021-12-17 11:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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So, this is a slightly “fishing” post today, as Editor and Simon and I were discussing the potential for an independent Blu-Ray release again this morning, and what that would entail. Not just for the financial lay-out, but for the actual product itself.
It came about because there was a little discussion on Twi...
2021-12-16 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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Still here, and today I bring you a video where we look at some things that were found in the footage of the movie by Editor Simon.
We actually discussed the idea of cynically putting VFX hidden stuff into the final film, but as you will see from this footage, we didn't. We clearly didn't. I'll tell you ...
2021-12-15 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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Right, now that I am well on the road to recovery I have finally gotten round to editing the second part of "highlights" from the ParaPod live show earlier in the year.
I've kept the visual stuff to a minimum, but you should be able to work stuff out that I've left in. If you get truly baffled then you can ...
2021-12-14 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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This may turn into a slightly stream of consciousness post, as I can’t seem to settle on what I want to write about. They’re all variations on a theme, but every time I think about it, I end up deciding to follow a particular thread which then ruins another thread, so I’m just going to start writing it and see where...
2021-12-13 11:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post