1st July

BEARS

I’ve made a new video, it’s a bear dancing to Syd Dale’s Three Bears. I couldn’t find this song on Youtube and ended up making a video for it, it’s one of Syd’s best. Syd Dale was a Library music artist from the 1960’s his songs would be used for adverts, TV shows, and are still used today. See Father Ted Pat Mustard theme (off the top of my head), he also did the 60’s Spiderman cartoon, plus other things you’d recognise.

THREE BEARS

I’ve also uploaded some other stuff for archive purposes, this is because I can’t embed videos on this blog so have to put them on my media channels first them paste them on here.

The first is a collection of teasers and adverts I edited to publicize my music and music videos by The Rivers including The Best Demo Tape Ever! Yes, the words of EMI not me, we recorded at EMI studios. You can hear a bit of Right Now (the vocal version) we recorded for them on the teaser video. I might try and do something with this at some point, restructure it, etc. The others are a Take a Little Longer teaser, 2 Kubrick’s The Shining ads (for Shining recorded at EMI) and 3 Mini Ads featuring Tina Turner, Sinead O’Connor and Carly Simon. Plus there’s The Hollies for Nothing Without You with strings which still needs completing.

THE BEST DEMO TAPE OF ALL TIME

The 3rd video is of 2 homage scenes from my short film fantasy epic Torquemada! The Hitchcock Homage is set to Bernard Herrmann’s music for Vertigo, and the 2nd is a musical sequence edited to John “Springtime For Hitler” Morris’ flamenco music from Mel Brooks’ Hitchcock spoof film High Anxiety.

HITCHCOCK / MEL BROOKS HOMAGE

In other news I’m going to try and complete The Silent Dagger Trailer.

4th June

START SPREADIN’ THE NEWS

I’ve made a new video for my Summertime instrumental and it’s set in Central Park in old New York, New York!

LATE IN THE SUMMERTIME (INSTRUMENTAL)

I might try and get an AI Frank Sinatra singing over this, I’m sure Frank would have been happy to have sung my lovely melody and thrown in some of that clever phrasing he does, I can here it now… sounds great Frank.

1st June

O LITTLE GOOSE

I been a searchin’ for ma little ol’ goose… where could he be? Look there he is, he’s behind that tree!

Not done anything much lately, shall have to finish that trailer but I can’t be bothered although I think its quite good. I’ve done the first half but it needs some fast editing when the drums kick in. It looks quite good with the flashing black and white which are markers for the clips, I can’t post videos on here but you can watch the rough version of it on my X account (link at bottom). I’ve still got 3 music videos to complete but I can’t be bothered doing them. Need to focus!

3rd Apr

LUKE THE DRIFTER

I’ve been trying to get Hank Williams to sing Always Get By as Luke the Drifter. I’ve done an intro using AI voice cloning. I can hear where the singing comes in but it’s unlikely I’ll be able to complete it with melody parts. Here’s the intro anyway, take it away Hank.

POOPY SCOOPER

1st Apr

I’ve just had a big smelly dump and it was most satisfying, left a bit of a pong though. In other news I’ve done 3 instrumental mixes of my all time classic song Always Get By which took me TWO MONTHS to edit together a couple of years back. I sampled the drums and bass from Wichita Lineman.

I think you’ll all agree that this is a sublime arrangement. Sing along if you wish:

ALWAYS GET BY [instrumental]

ALWAYS GET BY [guitar, piano and strings]

ALWAYS GET BY [without drums]

8th Mar

IT’S POO TIME!

O little goose, where did you go?

Come back soon, cause I’d like to know!

O goose, O goose, where can you be,

wherever you’re hiding, I’d like to see.

‘Ode to a Goose’

10th Feb

FIRE IN PARADISE

The hottest party this summer!

I’ve been on a bit of a Grok bender over the last few days and done quite a bit of stuff. I pasted in some of my artwork into GrokImagine to see what came out and the results are pretty cool. Grok AI has a surreal quality that I like and has become my new collaborator!

I’ve made a Trailer and an Advert for Fire In Paradise as well as a few other things which are in the video I’ve uploaded. I’ve brought my artwork to life for Epstein’s Wacky Races, The Covid Beatles and one of my favourites Crunts! Unfortunately I can’t upload videos directly to my blog so I had to bung all the short clips onto one video. You can watch them individually on my X account though (see link at bottom).

Fire In Paradise and other Delights

The Trailer bears very little resemblance to the script synopsis I did for FIRE IN PARADISE but then again I only had 4 images I could use plus one I created for the poster. I couldn’t get the Stephen Hawking image to work but Grok gave me some interesting alternatives to use. The poster took me almost as long as the video to make, about 2 days, but this led to the advert being created and the end shot in the Trailer.

Poster

4th Jan

Branching Out

Pump! Pump! Pump it up!

I re-titled it ‘Branching Out’ but kept the other title as well as a subtitle, or vice versa. The music is by Piero Umiliani who is best known for ‘Mah na mah na’, The Muppets song and this song is in a similar vein.

I’d been dabbling on Grok a bit recently and this is my first video using AI tech. The clips it produces are about 5 seconds long so I did about 30 and picked the best ones. I couldn’t get it to do any reverse angles or anything fancy so it gets a bit repetitive. I pasted a still image of the snowy woods in and gave it some commands and it all came to life, pretty amazing really. If you press the ‘Fun’ option it all goes seriously weird like some Daliesque acid trip, so I put some of that in too.

2nd Jan 26

Pump End

Take my hand,
and I’ll lead you to a land,
to a strange and snowy dell,
where the BALLOON animals dwell…

coming soon

I’ve made a NEW video! It’s set to music and was made with Grok Imagine AI software, the one you access on X. It’s called ‘Terror At PUMP END’. I’ll upload it soon, brace yourselves.

1st Jan 2026