1. SNATCHER 

An amazing Cyberpunk Adventure originally released in the 80's written and directed by Metal Gears Hideo Kojima, this is an absolute masterpiece and I'm playing it by using crossover games on my mac (running a PC based Sega CD emulator). 

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuyUShtcn94

2. OLDER APHEX TWIN RECORDS

His stuff is always amazing but its cool to hear those older poorly recorded (not played) records. Somehow Aphex Twin manages to breath so much life into his machines. Here is something he did under the name Caustic Window

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9HYjesSpTs

3. TEKKEN 6

I've been a Tekken Fan ever since the first release in arcades and on the Playstation. The 6th installment (which I got for the xbox360) is good fun !

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQBgyD7y79o

4. RAMU BOTTLE SODA

Tastes good. Drank quite a bit of this lately during long all night editing jobs. 

5. SONY EX-3 CAMERA

I shot 2 things this month with it and I am totally loving the memory card system. 

6. MY NEW FINGERCROXX HAT

I like hats. Check out pic above to see it.

7. SPACED

Best TV show to ever come out of England. These guys would go on to make Shawn of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.

This is the pilot episode ^^

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHc0VDdhXVQ 

8. GETO GAMA REVIEWS

Some of the most hilarious, low budget, politically incorrect  and fun reviews of old school Arcade, NES, PC Engine and Master System games. The Geto Gama (who really does sound like he's from the ghetto) uses Mame emulators to do it all and his comments are damn funny. The games he reviews are either so cool and rare you wish you would have played them back in the day OR so terrible you cant help but wonder how they ever got released. 

He updates quite regularly too, so its a fun thing to check out during your lunch break. 

If I ran a TV channel this dudes show would be on it. 

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB1KmFL6uMI

9. MACHINARIUM 

Wicked little Flash game my friend Ben Hall got me into. Cleaver puzzles, great design and robots, what more would you want ? Buy it.

10.  RICKY GERVAIS SHOW PODCASTS

Ricky Gervais, Steve Merchant and Karl Pilkington are the funniest thing to ever hit podcasts, after an amazing ride at XFM Radio where they had a truly cool radio show they went on to develop a podcast show that was so successful it got into the Guinness book of records, download it, and laugh your ass off because they are totally mental (especially Karl Pilkington).

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iysgfrIX4xg

Zup all

Entered the 48 hour film festival with my friends (under the name ROBOT ENTOURAGE), and had a fun time, our genre was Comedy and we shot a short film called RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE. The short is about a man (Henry Lai) who wakes up in Yumla after a wild night of partyin during Halloween. Handcuffed to a dead man in a Tiger suit (Spencer Douglass) he has to explaign himself to a hungover cop (Mike Chan) and the bar owner (Dan Findlay). Things however get complicated when they discover the dead man is also ticking, and may have a bomb inside him.

We proudly picked up a Category IIB rating (because of the swearing, beatings, stabbing, drinking and probably the scene where our main character sniffs a two meter line of cocaine off a bar)

My idea was to make something kinda nuts which mixed Takashi Miike with Spaced and am generally happy with the result.

At the festival I also got to do a Q&A which was cool ! (Thanx Jona for the pic)



Our team got a prize but I'm not gonna go into or lay claim to it.

In terms of competition my two favorite film's of the festival were King of Bullshit & Run Edwin Run.

The after party @ Drop was amazing and had quite the time at that. Check out Joe Fiorello's page if you wanna see some pics !

Will upload the short film soon !!

HERE ARE SOME BEHIND THE SCENES PICS !!






CREW

Director/ Camera Operator /Music - Arne Venema
Proucer - Spencer Douglass
D.O.P. - Elden Cheung
Assistant Directors - Mike Chan / Ben Hall
Story & Screenplay - Ben Hall / Alex Bedwell/ Dan Findley/ Arne Venema
Editors + Compositors - Mike Chan / Arne Venema
Boom Man: Doon Gibson
Gaffers - Ching Leung, Dicky Ip
Make up - Hiromi Naka
Hair - Mike Tan


CAST

Edwin Lai - Henry Lai
Edwins' Friend - Jeremy Pang
Cop - Mike Chan
Bar Owner - Dan Findlay
Tiger Man - Spencer Douglass
Thugs - Alex Bedwell / Ben Hall
Melvis - Himself
Announcer - Jessica Read

Sup everyone

Interview with Sky Magazine ! Yay! Read to find out amongst others who I'd like to meet most !

Pictures from the Counterf!t Art Show. Counterf!t are Ben Wong, Foon Wong, Jimmy Lam and Myself.