The RDA - best of week 3...

Uploading/blogging all compilation eps from The RDA with John Gordillo, over xmas just so they're out there.

Need to get a better quality transfer, but you get the jist...


The RDA with John Gordillo - S1E15Pt1 - Comp Show



Includes ALEX COX 'Moviedrome'-style intro,
Dawson's Creek titles,
'Who's At The TV Centre Entrance',
(with live commentary by show researcher VJ Anderson)
Live focus group (Scottish Pensioners)
Anniversary of Thomas Edison's first recording of the human voice
Huw Edwards leaving the building,
John's Classical Break,
The live focus group-focus group

The RDA with John Gordillo - S1E15Pt2 - Compilation Show

THE RECOMMENDED DAILY ALLOWANCE WITH JOHN GORDILLO - Season 1 Ep 15 - End of week 3 compilation.

Includes: "What time does host of the Six O' Clock News, Huw Edwards, leave the building?" sweepstake
Guests, The League Against Tedium (Simon Munnery), Jim Davidson (returning to the show after wandering into his studio on an earlier show), the entirely deaf studio audience, teen pop sensation Daphne & Celeste ("Ooh Stick You")sing "School's Out" to Huw Edwards as he leaves Television Centre, and a visit to the BBC shop with music legend Suzanne Vega.


The RDA with John Gordillo - S1E15Pt3 - Compilation Show

Includes the final "What Time Does Huw Edwards Leave The Building"
HUW EDWARDS Interview
GARETH DAVIES & PETER JONES "I doubt"
The live focus group-focus group


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Second week from The Recommended Daily Allowance

Uploading/blogging all compilation eps from The RDA with John Gordillo, just so they're out there.

Could only find the first part of this one: the second week from series 1...

The RDA with John Gordillo S1E10Pt1 - Goodfellas opening




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So for the quiet days through the Christmas shutdown, going to upload and link to The Recommended Daily Allowance, just so they're out there.

Sporadically get comments and messages asking if there's any more eps, so here's the lot - every compilation show I can manage - over the next few days...

(S1E20 looks a bit corrupted... so that might not come out, yet or ever)

The RDA with John Gordillo S1E05Pt1 - Recommended Daily Allowance



The RDA with John Gordillo S1E05Pt2



Standup comedian Paul Foot "I have a sore throat"
Sally Gray "I have no idea who you are" - man humping the ground on BBC Record Breakers, most press ups in one minute,
Britt Eckland, and the Jim Davidson Generation Game audience
Discussion of word battyman, what is boring
Lets go to their studio. "If you were Jay Leno, you could do that"
Television Centre corridors, wave with Jim Davidson
Playground Insult Update with teachers live from Cardiff, Liverpool and Bristol
- You fat bap, you donut / doughnut, muppet, nugget, Sly, shady, slack, off key, being extra, facety, extra, mild, your bret stinks, you need a haircut, your mum followed by anything. Your mums a ho.
Jingles night from radio stations. Radio Shropshire full jingle theme with images from todays world news. (Oswestry to Ellesmere)
Credits.

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#25 - Pencil No Food



Almost as an answer to "Pencil Food", after the inevitable repainting The Artist embarked on "Pencil No Food".

Perhaps conveying a frustration or a dissatisfaction with the destruction of the earlier piece.






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Yes Phil Spector, and sleigh bells, and choruses that start duh-duh duh-duh duh-duh duhduhduhduhduh.

Münchener Freiheit So lang' man Träume noch leben kann 87/88


But this, for me is the Christmassiest music - the version in German.
(it doesn't start till 1:00...)

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Rastamouse Subtitle of the Week



Me was just mending Sol's car
when me must have dozed off.


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Frank Butcher explains a steadicam

Added this to "The best steadicam shot in the world ever" post:

Mike Reid hosting the Southern Television kids show Runaround, explaining how a steadicam works...



Link to the video here - love how to illustrate it they use a clip from... The Omen

Here's the full Best Steadicam Shot In The World Ever post:

Fave TV #2 The Best Steadicam Shot In The World Ever

27 seconds of GOLD. From Eurovision 2009.




...and this is how Karsten Jacobsen did it:

Crash a handlebar-less segway into the stage while holding your steadicam...

but just remember to keep on running...




UPDATE -- 27 Dec 2011

This is what happens when it goes wrong... (via @fieldproducer)





UPDATE -- 27 Aug 2012

DIY Steadicam - Flying Camera Support

Garret Brown's original Steadicam® is an icon that revolutionized filmmaking. Being the first and the best, it naturally and justifiably commands a premium price. It is for this reason that homemade DIY Flying Camera Supports have been around since at least 1977, just one short year after Mr. Brown's invention.

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#3 This is how I answer the phone - Fave TV: Some Mothers Do Ave Em -->

<-- #1 Fave TV: Control Rooms and production galleries

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Last minute contender for The Worst Infographic of 2012,
courtesy of linkedin and Shell.




Keep up with interesting, relevant updates about Shell.

Look at all those green arrows of something I'm missing out on.

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Life in 2012:
Modern Superstition -

Cutting up your expired credit card

and then slowly distributing the pieces out into different dustbins

(Because in your head, it's not enough that it's expired, or in bits.
Someone can still assemble it.
Best put it in more than one bin.)


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Missus is trying to find my bits via reflexology.

It's a bit like fiddling with the remote control.

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Just added this link to my favourite posts on the web:

Teal and Orange - Hollywood, Please Stop the Madness



Having read this post by Todd Miro, I can't stop spotting this in film and TV drama... to paraphrase:

"Those of you who watch a lot of Hollywood movies may have noticed a certain trend that has consumed the industry in the last few years. It is one of the most insidious and heinous practices that has ever overwhelmed the industry.

I speak of course, of THE COLOR GRADING VIRUS THAT IS TEAL & ORANGE!!!"

He explains it, in full, brilliantly here
http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/teal-and-orange-hollywood-please-stop.html

There's even a Part 2 here
http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/teal-and-orange-part-2.html

It's everywhere - checkout the redheads in the icy blue cold outdoors



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(Including the worst showbiz autobiography ever
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Putting my list of 100 things I hate here...

...and here is the second batch... Numbers 6 - 10:

6
Hate cleaning round the back of a Breville sandwich maker.



7
Hate still getting post for my Ex.

8
Hate Sunday trading laws.

"Keep Sunday Special".

Having to get shopping done by 4pm or be gouged feels really Special.

9
Hate when people say “take care”.
Like it puts the onus of responsibility onto me for my well-being.

9A
And I hate the word onus.

10
Hate self-fulfilling prophesy:
Like
“Don’t let me forget. I’ve put the beers in the freezer.”


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#marrdrinkinggame #marr
So scoring below for the Andrew Marr Show Drinking game:

(NB These rules can also be played on ITV News, most of Sky News, and of course BBC News Channel output).


"Let me be clear..." = 1 point

"Difficult/Tough choices" = 1 point

"It is the right thing to do..." = 1 point

Politician hand-jiving or air karate = 1 point per 10 'chops'

"We take this very seriously" = 1 point

"What's really important is. . ." = 1 point

"...back to the table" = 1 point

"What the [insert nationality] people want" = 1 point

"Let me just make my point..." = 1 point

"tough economic environment/climate/year ahead" = 1 point

"Our research shows..." = 1 point


BONUS
Anything prefixed by "Look. . . " = 1 bonus point

COMPANY SPOKES MOUTHS
Company spokes-gob verbally referencing their own company more than once = 1 point

(Known affectionately as The Barclays Rule in honour of Antony Jenkins, Barclays Chief Executive of Barclays who managed to get the word Barclays into the Barclays interview an impressive Barclays number of Barclays times. Barclays.)

BIG THANKS TO
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SCORECARD
David Cameron - 17 points (11.5.14)
Nick Clegg - 15 points (18.5.14)
Barclays Spokes Mouth - 5 points (11.5.14)
Nicola Sturgeon - 1 point (18.5.14)

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FAVE TV #20 - TISWAS

Haven't done a favourite 100 TV moments post for a while
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But it's Saturday - and this morning for my toddlers I recreated the bountiful TV entertainment that my sister and I would have to create for ourselves.

In a world without Milkshake or CBBC, on a Saturday morning, we would have to wait for television to start.



We'd put the cushions in two arcs, making a drum kit each, and wait for LWT to start.

LWT startup November 1982


And then start drumming furiously along with the music.
(I've got a whole other post on ITV startup sequences here)

But the buildup would continue through that Sesame Street band of bleakness (Why the obsession with New York SANITATION trucks? We didn't know it was New York...)

...to get to this:-

Tiswas Titles & Clips









#21 clip might appear here -->

<<--- #19 The Cinema Ads
#18 Mystery Science Theater 3000
#17 Space Ghost, Coast To Coast
#16 The Adverts
#15 Ron Swanson on Parks and Recreation
#14 LE TOUR DE FRANCE
#13 Engelbert Humperdinck on the BBC VT Xmas tape 1979
#12 My favourite clip about writing TV sitcoms
#11 Pipkins
#10 The Best Action Scene Ever, Ever, Ever


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#23 - Crayon Mirror





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My Other Half said that Emperor Nero was gay.

It was then that we realised we'd learnt all our history from the Carry On movies.

By the way, this is how inside my head ACTUALLY sounds

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Originally posted this last year. So for the 1 year anniversary...

DAD LESSONS FOR MY KIDS
- Top 10 Upsides Of Recovering From A Boris Bike Crash -



10
Face looks like a themed Google logo. Changes by the day.

9
Being known to a handful of healthcare professionals affectionately as ‘that bloke who had the Boris Bike crash’.

8
Talking like Louis Spence.



7
Chunks falling off face like an maxillofacial advent calendar. Festive.

6
Patronising kids in the supermarket who stare to ‘always wear a bike helmet’, like some kind of deranged 1950s superhero.

5
Looking like a vagrant whose stuff never gets touched. Also festive.



4
Hours spent concussed equals hours not spent hearing about Eurozone crisis.

3
Drinking through a straw makes 2 year old son feel superior.

2
Finally being able to look my hero Erik Estrada in the eye.
We both know what this is like.


1
Looking like a Hitler cat.
Or the bloke from Sparks.
Or Blakey from On The Buses.





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Life in 2012:
However tough things get at work,

getting paid doesn't yet depend on me wearing a hat

with Santander written on it.


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Life in 2012:
I have no idea why poster ads for books are so... universally consistently bad.

Especially as, you know, it's in that whole printed medium that they're supposed to be good at.

I have never looked at a book on the basis of a poster ad.

Maybe I'm a tough crowd.

In the corner it says "BUY IT NOW"

Chances are, probably not.


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Life in 2012:
Property porn programmes like Grand Designs usually show "His and Hers" bathroom sinks like it's some kind of luxury.

But actually it's twice the cleaning, and twice the mess.

UPDATE/COMMENTS
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What happened to separate bathrooms? Men are seriously elbowing things and I'd rather not wash beside one.

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