I saw this at the BFI on the Southbank, London UK about a year ago and thought that the video was truly fascinating. The exhibition also had similar video clips that I have tried to find but so far failed. The video is essentially a section of Winnie the Pooh visuals mixed with apocalypse now audio and somehow the cartoon character manages to add depth never seen before.
I would be really interested to know of more work from the producer or similar artists.

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The new generation of apple iPhone looks set to hit our shores within the next month or so and the question rises again, exactly what is the impact for mobile education. The ability to 1 way push data to handsets in the terms of audio and video has long been capable but what more can we do?
A thought would be whether synchronous communication could be achieved with a swanky touch screen phone and the general direction that these devices take. It will be interesting to see how apple extends the product, therefore setting the trend for the forthcoming copies of iPhone from camp Nokia, Sony-Ericsson etc. The trick I would suggest that apple are missing is the continued lack of flash support which is a huge disappointment for learning technologists as this would truly extend the device into a learning tool… in fact if you then think of this extended by apps such as the remote the possibilities are truly tantalising!

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Well it is a little while after I finished classes for the summer now, and infact for the course. Now down to me and I knwo I have got a mountain of work infront of me that needs completing. The true question is how will I get this done and how will I organise my time.
I am starting to think that I need to base this on habit rather than need and therefore propose that each Sunday morning I will do some reading / research / writting / exploring into the relevant subject and set key goals as I personally set out for myself. This seems like an ideal way forward, especially when I am so good at avoiding even thinking about a dissertation. Infact to me dissertation is said in the past tense, like I have already completed it. And I must remember that I have not.

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I went to roast in borough Market and it was Brilliant!!! I had a ‘roast’ beef sunday dinner and lay down the challenge that it had to be better than my mums Sunday dinner… which is obviously the benchmark for all good meals.

Well I can assure you that the dinner was fantastic, and being my birthday I wasn’t picking up the bill either which is always a good thing! Would like to say I would be visiting again soon, but lets be honest my mums dinner might not be as good, but neither is it as expensive!

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I went to see someone at LSBU today, an academic supervisor no less.
We spoke for a quite a while and he has managed to instil some focus on this whole exercise. Essentially we went back to basics and said, what is web technology, what is its application and how can that be used. Then what are the outcomes to the business and how is this percieved from the view of the staff, organisation and customers. If we survey or interview from here and analyse we can start to map out a dissertation.

To be honest it is a little short of my grand visions of open source and business models that challenge the viewpoint of Porter and HBR but it makes a LOT more sense.

I think that with a little more research I can get some grounding here and am going to go back to some of those Porter ideas and see where I can build on from here.  A very good week for opening my eyes.

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