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Regular readers will have been following Sophy and Naresh’s ‘Transition Training on Tour’ blog posts (more of which will be here soon). They got back to Totnes a couple of days ago, tired but elated, and to celebrate, here is a film of a talk they gave in New Zealand as part of their travels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npc7oqw-opw
Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five
We’ve got three fine pieces of Transition audio for your listening pleasure today. Firstly there is the new Transition podcast, produced by Carl Munson. If you are going to the 2009 Transition Network conference, you’ll meet Carl, as he will be doing a live podcast of the whole event.
Spent the weekend in Cornwall for the People’s Premiere of The Age of Stupid. The film got into the Guinness Book of Records for being the largest simultaneous premiere in the history of films, being premiered in 65 places (of which Eden was one), connected together by a webcast. At Eden, a sell-out audience drawn from across Cornwall and Devon saw, on the screen, the celebs and others arriving for the greenest film launch in history, with emissions just 1% of the normal Hollywood premiere. Then, we saw the film.
It’s been a steep learning curve for Emma on the edit of the movie. Chris Watson has stepped back to work on another project that has come in leaving Emma to edit on her own. She’s never sat in the editor’s chair before and after being shown a few key buttons has started to put it together. “By the end of the day my brain is totally fried. I imagine it’s like playing a computer game all day long!” she saiys. It’s one thing to sit back and guide the whole process alongside an editor but it’s quite another to navigate a 7 track timeline and know all the shortcuts keys.
Given that this Sunday is Mothering Sunday, I thought you might enjoy this touching tribute to the mothers in our lives. Might even bring a lump to the throat and a small tear to the corner of your eye, as the hero of the ‘No Fly’ movement talks candidly and beautifully about mums. Check out the shorts.
