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Greater Spotted Woodpecker
These Greater Spotted Woodpeckers have become regular visitors in my urban garden, requiring the peanut feeder to be topped up every few days. A messy eater, the woodpecker seemed to be getting through loads of nuts at each visit but this zoomed in video shows he’s actually targetting one particular peanut quite carefully over a series of head and bill movements.
Greater spotted woodpeckers have joined other garden birds as regular feeders at the peanuts such as great tits, sparrows, blue tits, robins and starlings.
Free FTP Client Software – Using Filezilla to update Websites
Free FTP Client Software for Windows
Filezilla is a free and open source FTP client software program used for connnecting to a webserver to update websites. Here’s a short tutorial video which deals with downloading, setting up and connecting Filezilla FTP to a website. I describe the twin pane approach, and show you how to download a website file, edit it , test and then re-upload so the new version is live on your website.
This Filezilla video can be watched from right here below as an embedded YouTube video, do try the HD (High Definition) and full screen options:
Or you can download the full original 84Mb video file onto your computer using the free file hosting service at divshare: Download Filezilla FTP Video Tutorial
Filezilla FTP client software is available in Windows, Mac OS X and Linux versions.
Good alternative FTP clients apart from Filezilla are Cute FTP for Windows and Mac (small charge) , and on a Mac there are also Fetch and Cyberduck.
Figure of Eight Banger Racing
Here’s an aerial picture of The Coombe Valley Raceway Banger Racing stadium in Dover Kent where I used to go on alternate Sundays to watch the banger racing, stock cars, hot rods and mini rods. They also hold special two day meetings to give people something to do on bank holidays. I don’t know how many other figure of eight racing circuits there are in the world but this is the only one I’ve ever heard of. The banger racing takes place in beautiful valley surrounded by wooded hillsides, typical of the East Kent chalk downs.
Here’s an amateur video of a big van bangers race which I think captures some of the excitement and chaos of standing on the bank near the approach to the pits bend.
Another one of a Bangers Destruction Derby
Banger racing is a well regulated contact motorsport.
Flashmobs Going Mainstream
Flashmobs and unexpected performances in the mainstream
Simulated Flashmobs and unexpected performances are springing up all over the place. You can hardly venture out on a journey through any of London’s main transport hubs without being hijacked by a troupe of dancers, pillowfighters or Musical Theatre performers. The aim of most of these stunts is to generate buzz, particularly through youTube, which if done subtly and with a bit of luck can reach millions of consumers for a fraction the price of mainstream advertising. At least that was the theory, but T-mobile are currently running an expensive campaign on TV which shows full length video from the Liverpool Street Station event last Thursday. With clips of bystanders reactions mixed in with professional dancers emerging from the crowd, it’s very difficult to judge just much of it was precisely staged and how much is genuine spontaneity. I’m not going to embed the actual advertisement itself here, you can find it easily on youtube but here are some genuine punters interviewed after the event:
So now I’ve just been alerted by Hermione on Twitter to a smaller musical video made in Stansted Airport:
This one is for Lastminute.com and asks “When did you last go to the Theatre?” which is a question close to my heart as you may know already. I’m off to see Phantom of The Opera next week.
Elche Palm Gardens with Surprising Water Feature Sculpture
Elche is a city inland from Alicante on the South East coast of mainland Spain. It’s also the place our favourite Elche Spanish restaurant in Leytonstone is named after. This video features a sculpture in a section of expansive palm groves, actually within the Priests Gardens (Huerta del Cura)
The sculpture is made of vertical shiny metal rods arranged in a spiral rising from a rotating plinth which gives the impression from a distance of a waterfall or fountain. The video accentuates this by being recorded next to an actual fountain, providing the soundtrack.
The Wreckers Prayer
listen or download The Wreckers Prayer by Andy Roberts for free via last.fm
The Wreckers Prayer – Lyrics
“Oh Lord, please don’t let there be shipwrecks,
Let the lighthouse shine out bright and clear.
But if there needs to be an accident at sea,
Please let that ship be wrecked here.
There’s a path all the way from the clifftop
to the rocks and the sea down below
It’s steep and it’s loose and it’s slippery
You gotta mind how you go.
On a moonless night, you need a little light
We don’t want any accidents, you see.
Don’t let there be shipwrecks
Lighthouse shine out bright and clear
If there needs to be a tragedy at sea
then let the cargo be washed ashore here
Oh the living is hard down this way
the soil is all stoney and poor
We don’t have a port, no fish to be caught
There’s just what the tide brings ashore
And the duty free liquor in store.
Next time it happens, don’t let me be late
or allow too much salt water
to infiltrate
Please don’t let there be shipwrecks,
Let the lighthouse shine out bright and clear.
If there needs to be a tragedy at sea,
Let the next one be here.
- Andy Roberts 2003
Update 19/2/07 : free mp3 available to:
listen and download via last.fm
Also available at MySpace and Sellaband
Video of Andy Roberts The Wreckers Prayer – Walthamstow Folk Club
Snark One
Canal cruise
The emergency service on the Lancaster canal waterbus finished last weekend, with the reopening of the Lune Aquaduct, but on Saturday we had the 72ft traditional packet boat all to ourselves for the whole day.
It was quiet, beautiful and the narrowboat created a slight breeze on that very hot day. Amongst other things, we saw two or three Marsh Harriers, which I’m told are quite rare in the Northwest.
The above video clip is an embedded Flash version, as requested but you may also download a high quality quicktime movie (15Mb) or a smaller one (7Mb)
Marsh Harrier photo by Andy Roberts
Technorati Tags: waterways, Lancaster, canal, waterbus, video, “Marsh, Harrier”, Lune, Aquaduct
Shifting Sands
Shifting Sands – song
shifting sands asf”
I want to get this over and done with. It’s just a demo – ok, a way of getting the song down on tape somehow. Ideally there would be images from Whitsunday Island on the video, and some orchestration with perhaps my friend Alex helping out on the vocals but some vital components of the technical apparatus are still missing. Beggars can’t be choosers.
So here’s the photo I took of whitesands bay, and the cessner light aircraft. Whitsunday Island is an uninhabited nature reserve off the coast of Queensland, Au, near the Great Barrier Reef and I had the privilege to camp there for four nights.
Fantastic. Nothing to do with the song though, which is all about setting off to Bilbao, Spain on my own.
Here’s a later video of Shifting Sands by Andy Roberts:
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