Wonderswan Interview -06/09/08

Yes this is an interview of sorts, if one is able to condone the guffawing nature of your host.



Wonderswan Interview - 06/09/08 from Ben NCM on Vimeo.

Chops video for ILL EAGLE ready at last

This is the finished video me and Herod McHugh did for CHOPS with the help of the guys from Uprights, Jon Nash, Dicko, Katie Moore, Aurora Fearnley and Charles Robert Arthur.

Here's an edit of the rough footage we incorporated into the final thing:

Dancing the Cake from Ben NCM on Vimeo.


And here's the finished final thing

Untitled from Ben NCM on Vimeo.

Photos of the last video shoot for Chops.

I'm really gutted that I didn't get more photos at the time because everyone was really looking the part and it was excellent fun. Despite their obvious intoxication and general lethargic presence, I could see that those people who had scolded themselves into turning up for the shoot looked like they intended carrying out their jobs with an effervescent aplomb.

Of course! I should mention the gist of the video round about now. I've written this description and copy and pasted it so many times on other blogs and forums that I really can't be arsed doing it again right now but I'll be brief. On the island where my parents are from everyone forms a massive circle on the day of a wedding, the more confident women from the crowd take turns dancing with the wedding cake erotically in the centre. I don't know why they do this but I wouldn't be surprised if one of my aunties told me that it improved the flavour as they're quite a superstitious lot over there. When I visited (Petite Martinique) one time I filmed a wedding and have used this footage as material for the one we made on the day.

I took on the central role of chief erotically dancing woman and imitated to a certain extent some of the moves they were throwing in the original film which in turn my servile drones surrounding me would imitate. As for the idea behind it all I think it was about wanting something really badly but in the end not getting it in the form that you wanted, and also about forgetting what's best for yourself as a person and spending the bulk of your time gorging on simple pleasures to the point where you choke to death on them.

Anyway, check out these shots and be sure to get involved in the next venture which should be mid October in the Hyde Park area of Leeds for a great band called Cowtown - http://www.myspace.com/cowtownsuperstars

Do check out Chops too if you like your Can beats - www.myspace.com/mightychops

Helpers and werewolves needed for Cowtown video

Me and Herod will be making a video for Leeds favourite Devo-esque partytime band Cowtown in October and would like for you guys to get involved.

As it stands at the moment, the premise of the video is based on the family comedy film Teenwolf and the moment when he is starting to get hairy in his bathroom. There is a knock on the door and to his amazement his Dad is stood there also with a werewolf's face! Then Teenwolf realises that everyone in his street are in fact werewolves and so all the werewolves in Hyde Park have a dance down Pearson Grove and that's it. This is the rough template I've been given but it will be perverted in some way. Teenwolf really couldn't have been played by anyone other than Dave Shields as he has the perfect hair, but a lot more people will be needed to create the illusion that every person in the world is a wolf. It will be also important for the video to contain a lot of wolf oriented imagery and visual gags so if there are any funnymen or women on here then we need to get together and have a laugh.

This production will be bigger than the last one so I'll be updating this space in the next few weeks with additional info.