A 'cracker' for free
Seem to be all out of blogging inspiration just now, but on the weekend I did discover that you can now watch online (legally) the whole of Cracker Bag, the short film my friend Glendyn Ivin made - before his feature film Last Ride, which you've all heard about if you've been reading here long enough - which went on to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Maybe I am prone to crying because I shed a couple of tears on watching it again, but it's a nice little film about disillusionment/disappointment. It's only 14 minutes from start to finish, so treat yourself and watch it here.
(I got the DVD of Last Ride for Christmas, and realised I hadn't watched The Desert before, which is his other short film included in the package, so I sat down and watched that. It's a little obscure. It is a short poetic film, cut from the rushes of a music video, which perhaps explains it. Incidentally, for those who like bikes, Glendyn also won accolades for his graduating film titled Neverland, an investigation of the culture surrounding bicycle couriers.)