Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Other Peoples Stuff’ Category
Forgotten Futures XI – Planets of Peril
Monday, December 6th, 2010Marcus L. Rowland has released the eleventh installment of his excellent, shareware Forgotten Futures RPG: Forgotten Futures XI – Planets of Peril. Its currently available on CD and the download version will be available on 20th December 2010. Forgotten Futures XI is a complete setting based on Stanley G. Weinbaum’s 1930s science fiction stories. It […]
The American
Sunday, December 5th, 2010The American is probably the slowest film I’ve seen in a long time – it’s certainly the slowest thriller I’ve seen for several years. Personally I really liked how slow it was but, as was the case for the friend I went to see it with, it could be too slow for many. George Clooney’s […]
Pelgrane talk at Dragonmeet 2010
Monday, November 29th, 2010The following notes come from the seminar at Dragonmeet (27th November 2010) by Kenneth Hite, Robin D Laws, Simon Rogers and Gareth Hanrahan. I didn’t record the talk so these are just notes that I took that give the gist of what was being said. They’re also only the notes about investigative gaming. I’m providing […]
Dragonmeet 2010 Convention Report
Sunday, November 28th, 2010So I finally made it to Dragonmeet, its taken me a few years but this time I did it. My planning fu was weak so I’d not decided to go till quite late on so I was staying four miles from Kensington and eight from the centre of London. This did mean I got to […]
The Cartoon Museum: Ink and the Bottle and The Wellcome Trust: High Society
Saturday, November 27th, 2010On my way to Dragon meet 2010 in London I decided to visit a couple of exhibitions on the way by chance both had a similar theme – Ink and the Bottle at the The Cartoon Museum and High Society at The Wellcome Collection. The Cartoon Museum: Ink and the Bottle Not the largest museum […]
Burke and Hare Review
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010I’ll keep this short because Burke and Hare doesn’t have a lot to be said about it. Pegg and Serkis make an interesting pair in the title roles and had some chemistry but they are left to carry the film. Fisher and Hynes aren’t bad as the respective character’s love interest and wife. Unfortunately their […]
RED – Retired Extremely Dangerous – Review
Saturday, October 30th, 2010RED (Retired Extremely Dangerous) probably won’t appeal to everyone but I really enjoyed it. I’ve made no secret that RED (Retired Extremely Dangerous) was a film I wanted to see since the teaser trailer turned up on You Tube. Even once I’d read some reviews that compared it to rotten vegetables I still wanted to […]
The magical Temple of a Thousand Bells
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010I walked from work to Liverpool’s Anglican cathedral to see Laura Belém’s Temple of a Thousand Bells which is in the Oratory in St James’ Cemetary as part of the Liverpool Biennial 2010. The work consists of a thousand hand-blown glass bells suspended on nylon string through a gently glowing ceiling. An 8 minute polyphonic piece of music by Fernando Rocha including many different bell sounds fills the room. Really beautiful work. I just wish I’d had more than fifteen minutes to experience it.
Every Shop Window is a Soap Box, 2010
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010Renshaw Street in Liverpool has been the home of Rapid Hardware all the time I’ve lived here. It took up so many of the shops along one side of the street that it was commonly known as Rapid Hardware Street. When they moved into the old George Henry Lee’s / John Lewis building it left […]
The Crime Writer's Guide to Police Practice and Procedure
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010A short review Michael O’Byrne’s The Crime Writer’s Guide to Police Practice and Procedure