Though not quite the full-fledged return of Gannon to the channel that we wish were possible, for his first video back since the start of the year we thought we'd just shoot the breeze and see what happened. Suffice to say, the conversation jumps around all over the place...
This was, unexp...
2020-07-13 16:15:04 +0000 UTC View PostHere you go, everyone: this week's for-your-eyes-only video.
A bit of a status update... various sporting celebs I've met... my new musical career (ahem) - plus bonus song(s)! PEGGY!
2020-07-08 17:19:21 +0000 UTC View PostBeen a bit of a day for Getting Stuff Done.
I finally finished compiling the Digitiser Live DVD. Now I've just got to burn the master copy, and it'll be ready to go off to the makers. We did discuss burning them ourselves (and the brilliant Nikki Heald kindly offered to help), but tha...
2020-07-07 16:34:54 +0000 UTC View PostSorry this has been late. Last week was taken up with finishing Sound Footage.
But hey - a brand new storytime is here! And this week Sanja and I are taking a look at my old school books. Suffice to say, not a lot has changed in the intervening years...
Hello gang.
Well, my album is up for pre-order on Bandcamp, and because you're my top tier gang... you can get a 50% discount on it - that's half off! - as a thank you for all your support!
Just use th...
2020-07-03 18:44:46 +0000 UTC View Post
So... secret's out. I'm making an album. Chris Jerden-Cooke - now going by the name Jerden Cooke - and I have long planned to release a compilation of tracks featured on the channel, and that's sort of how this started life... However, having relatively recently started making my own music in Gar...
2020-07-02 16:20:32 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Monday, top-tier gang. Hope you're all good.
So at the end of last week, I temporarily disabled comments on the YouTube channel... then made it so they had to be approved before I'd post them. It was pretty clear that one rabid idiot, with multiple accounts, was spamming the comments ...
2020-06-29 09:02:19 +0000 UTC View PostHere's Part 2 of our honeymoon adventure... in which magic is snatched from the jaws of disaster...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk4OB3EaPTo
2020-06-24 17:30:59 +0000 UTC
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Had a day with no work to do, apart from filming and editing pour vous. So I did a bit of work on what'll probably become The Mysterious Hole... and then fannied about in Garageband. I thought I'd see if it was possible to make a prog rock song just using loops and samples.
And the an...
2020-06-23 19:56:29 +0000 UTC View PostYo yo... whasssaaaaaaaap? That's a good reference.
Here's a brand new, Patrons-only, video for you (yes - even YOU, new Patron)! A few channel updates, plus my (spoiler-free) thoughts on The Last of Us Part 2.
Later this week: We Were Star Wars VIPs...
Enjoy!
P...
2020-06-23 14:08:17 +0000 UTC View PostStupid YouTube. See, I'm so used to being polarising that I just assumed it was all people buggering in a fit of pique, but it looks now as if a lot of people were automatically unsubscribed from the channel over the past week, in the wake of changing the channel name. I thought that sort of thin...
2020-06-22 11:59:09 +0000 UTC View PostMorning, gang! And hello to all the new Patrons who jumped aboard in the past week. Not sure what I did to encourage you all, but that has been very lovely to see. Thank you.
It has been a weird week since changing the channel name. When I announced it, the feedback was overwhelmingly posit...
2020-06-22 10:13:03 +0000 UTC View PostSelf-explanatory, hopefully!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_NnJn3K8vY
2020-06-17 12:26:22 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the first of this week's new videos - not including Lost Footage, which some of you have seen already, and will be going up on Sunday for the rest of humanity.
This week... Sanja and I talk about our honeymoon. But wait - it's not like that! We go in depth into THAT car accident that...
2020-06-16 18:53:19 +0000 UTC View PostI keep watching the latest Lost Footage. I've never done that before. Normally by the time I'm done editing, I know the episodes inside and out, and the last thing I want to do is watch them back even once. This one is different.
I can't even put my finger on it, but part of it is pri...
2020-06-15 08:24:59 +0000 UTC View PostI know I've parped my own horn about this episode of Lost Footage a fair bit already... but it's such a step up, and it is - in isolation - one of the things I've done that I'm most proud of. I hope you'll be able to see the ridiculous amount of work that has gone into it.
The Lost Fo...
2020-06-14 13:29:37 +0000 UTC View PostHola, everyone.
As promised, here's a Patron-exclusive Q&A as a kind of coda for the Monster Hunter Diaries. I'm going to try and do these a little more regularly; now I feel less pressure to have a convoluted multi-camera set-up, they're much easier to do!
But anyhow... her...
2020-06-11 10:26:19 +0000 UTC View PostHere's a sneak peek at the next, and final, ep of Lost Footage. This is the result of at least two weeks' work. Ridiculous!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMZWrJSlRzA
2020-06-08 18:30:15 +0000 UTC
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Morning, everyone. I'm feeling better, more or less Hurrah! That was foul. Won't go into the grisly details - though if you heard me on the Cheapshow live stream on Saturday, I presented plenty there - but it was a cold, followed immediately by a proper upset stomach, that left me feeling utterly...
2020-06-08 08:32:43 +0000 UTC View PostHello, chums.
Sorry to say, but I don't think the final instalment of the Monster Hunter video will be up until the weekend. Apologies for not keeping to the schedule, but I've been hit with a weird cold thing, and Sanja has a tooth infection (just what you need when all the dentists ...
2020-06-04 08:29:45 +0000 UTC View PostHello chums.
Sorry I've not gotten the final part of the Monster Hunter Diaries to you yet. We're planning to record it tomorrow, and it should be up by Thursday, so alas you'll only get it a few hours early. Sorry again that I wasn't able to do it sooner.
I've been mostly working on ...
2020-06-02 13:42:15 +0000 UTC View PostHola. Hope you're all alright. The monster hunt videos seem to be going down well with those who've watched them.
It's great for me, because it means I can keep the storybox open, and talk about some of the other weird things that I've gotten up to over the years. I did a poll on Twit...
2020-05-29 07:24:49 +0000 UTC View PostHere we go. I know some of you are waiting for this, so I've brought it forwards... part 2 of the Monster Hunt Diaries.
It's an epic - the longest video, barring Digi Live, that we've ever done on the channel - so get comfy, pour a glass of your favourite beverage, and get settled in ...
2020-05-27 17:57:23 +0000 UTC View PostHello all. Happy Bank Holiday Monday! Sorry I wasn't able to get part one of the monster hunting video to you before it went up for everyone. To make up for it, here's the latest completed segment from the next part of Lost Footage. I'll aim to do better with part two.
I realised last week ...
2020-05-25 17:33:42 +0000 UTC View PostIn the last couple of days there seems to have been a lot of talk about introducing a four-day week, as a sort of permanent thing, once the world gets back to normal.
That, along with a universal basic income and more flexible, home-working, hours, seem to be getting real traction. It...
2020-05-22 09:50:35 +0000 UTC View PostI promise I'm not going to start spamming you with music - and feel free to ignore this - but over the past few days I've been fannying around in Garageband trying to make something kind of anthemic-sounding. I really liked how this turned out, but I'm never going to use it anywhere as it's kind ...
2020-05-21 12:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostMorning all! Hope you're doing okay. Who else is sick of this - 'scuse my French - fucking pandemic?
It's not even the lockdown, or the pandemic itself, but I'm just growing weary of the news cycle, the batshit conspiracy theories that end up having to be debated or dismissed in the m...
2020-05-20 08:45:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe next Lost Footage episode is starting to come together. I want this to be our crowning glory, so it's going to take a while to finish.
Here's a sneak peek at the first completed section (avoid if you don't want spoilers). It's going to come in the teenage segment, sandwiched betwe...
2020-05-19 13:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
A few people asked for a full version of the Bronson's Pouch song. I had a bit of time today while waiting for a Zoom meeting, so I did exactly that. And here it is. I feel like a bit of a charlatan, because I put this together in Garageband using loops and samples, rather than the way Chris JC w...
2020-05-14 16:07:19 +0000 UTC View PostHow are you all doing up here in the balcony? How's the free popcorn? Sorry if it's a bit stale. It's been next to a radiator for six months.
You may have heard the news this week that TV production has been given governmental permission to open up again, providing social distancing rules a...
2020-05-14 12:49:11 +0000 UTC View Post