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A New Hope…
Well that’s a chuffing surprise; I spend months moaning about not having enough time to blog, then I lose my job and spend the next month doing precisely naff all on PlayLondon. So in the spirit of Buck-U-Uppo, I will blog every weekday until December; sort of an experiment to see how I feel about [...]
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Tags: Amanda Hirsch, blogging, Comedy, improv, PlayLondon, Tina Fey
Play On Conference – NYC
Off to Edinburgh tomorrow for the tail-end of the fest, so if anyone’s got any comedy recommendations, nudge them my way. In the meantime, I’ve just come across a link to the Play On Conference, a celebration of play in New York City this October. I’ve taken far too many trips this year to justify [...]
Filed under: event, games, Music, play, Video | Leave a Comment
Tags: Dr John, Edinburgh Festival, Jazz, New York, play, Play On 2010, Play On Conference, Professor Longhair, The Meters
The Smile Project
Art collective Wasted Spaces has been doing all kinds of fun stuff up in Wembley. I’m not fully clear what’s going on in this video, but their website says they’ve ‘been on a mission to put a smile (literally) on the face of Wembley’ through temporary installations. If nothing else, it’s quite a calming couple [...]
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Tags: art, Smile Project, The Smile Project, Wasted Spaces, Wembley
Soundtrack City
Oh, and I was listening to this while writing the last post. Melancholically uplifting tunage from The Features:
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Tags: Music, The Features, The Idea of Growing Old
Stuart Brown and Louis CK
OK I’m thoroughly wiped out after a week of partying in Berlin and a pretty colossal wedding, so no inciteful bons mots today; instead just a couple of videos until I’ve had about 15 hours sleep and caught up on my emails. First up, here’s the American psychiatrist Stuart Brown talking about the importance of [...]
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Tags: Comedy, Louis CK, play, Stuart Brown
Gorillas ‘play games of tag’
A quick lunchtime post before I pass out from hunger, but I’ve just seen a headline on the BBC website saying that “gorillas ‘play games of tag like humans’”. According to the article, scientists have studied footage of gorillas tapping each other and then running away, and reckon they’re playing as a way of testing [...]
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Tags: apes, BBC, behaviour, games, gorillas, play, research, science
World Cup fever
And so begins another month of nailbiting excitement, heartbreaking near-misses and possible glory. I don’t know if it’s just me, but there seems to be much less ‘we’re gonna win it’ rhetoric this time round. Maybe we’re all just getting more cynical (surely not?). Anyway to celebrate the World Cup launch, here’s a thoroughly summery [...]
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Tags: Dulwich Ukulele Club, England, football, Music, soccer, Sport, ukulele, World Cup
Rufus Hound full interview
Finally! Here’s the full version of my interview with Rufus Hound. It’s about 16 minutes long; hope you like.
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Tags: Comedy, Dan Walker Smith, improv, interview, Rufus Hound, Video
Rufus Hound Interview
Here’s a snippet of an interview I did with the British comedian Rufus Hound. He’s a really fun guy and a fantastic stand up and improv performer, so it was a real pleasure to chat with him. This is just the final couple of minutes, where we play a game called ‘Dance or Dog’. A [...]
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Tags: Comedy, Dan Walker Smith, Dave, interview, Rufus Hound, TV, Video
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