Iron Man 3 and Skype Make Waves at JBLM

Soldiers must be prepared for many things, but the celebrity buzz of the red carpet is not a scenario that automatically springs to mind. However, on 24th April this year, troops stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM), Tacoma, Washington were treated to a joint premiere with the Iron Man 3 cast in Hollywood, California in [...]

Making a Music Video with the Sony Xperia Z

What can you do with your phone’s camera? Take some wobbly pictures and upload them to the social media of your choice. Great. How about shooting a full on music video in the middle of the Artic? Sounds far fetched but the team at Sony have joined up with Damian Kulash of the band OK [...]

The Northern Lights vs Sony Xperia Z

How do you demonstrate precision engineered technology? How do you test its capabilities to the max? How do you prove to the world that the Xperia Z is the quite possibly the best smartphone in the world? You send it to the Arctic Circle of course. And then when you get there you make music [...]

ONCE…Might Not Be Enough

Already a winner of 8 Tony awards including Best Musical, Once The Musical might well be the best musical performance of a generation. It is simply stunning. Touching, funny and hard to forget, Once the Musical is in essence a love story but its way more complex than the usual cheesy boy meets girl stuff. [...]

Have You Been Dewed?

Stunt Guy Drinking Mountain Dew

The crazy people that make Mountain Dew, a citrus flavoured carbonated soft drink, have just launched a new video promoting the refreshing power of their sugar free version of the Mountain Dew soft drink, named Get Energised. Talk about being refreshed and hydrated from Mountain Dew, the stunt man in the video certainly was after [...]

The Power of Volunteering

Adopt a Greyhound

What would your boss say to you if you asked him if you could have a day off to walk a dog? He would probably tell you to take a walk to the job centre, however this is exactly what the staff at SSE Energy Supply Limited have been allowed to do. Check out this [...]

A Dinosaur DSLR: The Panasonic LUMIX GH3 Goes Back in Time

Title shot of short film, Neville

The third instalment of the GH3-minute movie makers, Neville is a miniature epic film that follows a solitary man obsessed with dinosaurs. The short film meanders through the country and coastal roads of borderland between Devon and Cornwall, relaying some pretty impressive shots of the rural British countryside. While on the hunt for dinosaur remains [...]

The New Panasonic LUMIX GH3 Causes a Lovers Tiff

The second GH3-Minute Movie At First Sight has been released by Panasonic, showcasing the improvements of the new GH3 camera. Panasonic hopes the impressive 1080/50p video output will project the GH3 into the professional video industry. If At First Sight is anything to go by, we think Panasonic may have released a winner in this [...]

The Lumix GH3 Splendidly Shown Off in Hertz

With the release of the new Lumix GH3, Panasonic have produced three feature films to show off its capabilities in a professional context. The first, Hertz by director Vicky Lawton, explores a mysterious imprisonment and attempted escape of Toby Kebbell (Rock N Rolla, Wrath of the Titans). Make sure to watch in HD to watch [...]

Syncing Singers Over Skype

Everyone has used Skype, at one time or another, to chat to friends and family members around the world but can you imagine using Skype to sing together in a choir? Well that is exactly what Eric Whitacre achieved recently. This emotional video will bring a tear to your eye and a lump to your [...]

From Shoes to Sneakers: Ditch Your Boring Shoes for a Pair of Converse

Black and White Converse All Star Chuck Taylor Sneakers

There are certain brands that depict more about a lifestyle than the actual usefulness of the product. Having said that, both are true for the Converse brand of sneakers, where the shoes are comfortable and the lifestyles of its wearers are anything but boring. Check out the new Converse video, where the message is “shoes [...]

Make Mine Milk: Including Vitamin X!

Amelia Lily

Do you remember the Make Mine Milk campaign around the time of the Olympics when Team GB Olympians set challenges as part of the drive to restore milk to the iconic position is had when it was universally drunk in this country? Some of us are even so old that we remember the days when [...]

Spice on the Stage, Not in the Kitchen!

Girl group, Spice Girls on stage together

You may remember the Spice Girls in their mid 90’s heyday. They could do no wrong – they were all over the charts like a glittery rash, and their songs could be heard from bedrooms, cars and clubs all over the planet.  Of course, the Spice Girls never really went away. While they split up [...]

Running for Mum!

The competition to win £100

Here is a short video that was born out of tragedy and sadness, yet shines through with love, optimistic energy and inspiration. Andrew Clark, and his two sisters, Philippa and Vicky, were given the devastating news that their mum, Mary, had been diagnosed with a brain tumour. Mary had an operation which, although couldn’t cure [...]

Andy Samberg at the Film Independent Spirit Awards

Andy Samberg, one third of comedy troupe, The Lonely Island, recently presented the 28th Independent Spirit Awards, which recognises independent film makers. In recent years, more and more independent films have been getting the recognition that they deserve and it’s becoming commonplace to see a film nominated at the Academy Awards, as well as the [...]

Hats Off for Top Hat!

This is a non-stop entertainment video that showcases the revival of the musical Top Hat at the Aldwych Theatre in London’s West End. The original Top Hat was a 1935 screwball comedy musical film in which Fred Astaire plays an American dancer named Jerry Travers, who comes to London to star in a show and [...]

Healthcare is Unequal: What do we Need?

Until I saw this video: I have to admit that I had only heard of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the vaguest of terms. I thought it was something to do with identifying exotic diseas in far away places, and had little relevance to mainstream medicine. However this video puts them [...]

Return of “The Bodyguard”

FROM: TO: Who can forget the movie The Bodyguard that came out in 1992? It starred Kevin Costner and the late much-missed Whitney Houston in her acting debut. The Bodyguard, Costner, is a former Secret Service Agent-turned-bodyguard who is hired to protect Houston’s character, a music star, from an unknown stalker. It was the second [...]

Steve’s Shaggy Dog Story: A Canine Star is Born

The Petplan videos continue to be top notch. Following their Vet of the Year Award video in December and their rollicking Gilbert & Sullivan inspired dash through an amazing number of breeds of dogs, cats and rabbits, here is another winner. In fact there’s a direct link between the last video and this one- it’s [...]