Every once in a while over here at quiteenjoy, we get a little excited about something. It could be a live bee in a bag of salad (less than positive excitement), a picture of a duck wearing a bowler hat (more overwhelmingly joyous than you could possibly imagine), perhaps even a five pence piece on the floor outside the office (invariably glued down so that we can’t retrieve it).
However, all of these things can be surpassed in an instant when something of genuine, raw, outstanding beauty is dropped in our laps…
…and today, that happened. Clicky Clicky, already.
I invite you to view this truly spectacular and heart-wrenchingly emotive video piece by a man I so desperately wish actually was related to me… but sadly, isn’t. Tom Jenkins who is the (deep breath) Producer, Animator, Cameraman, Lighting Operator, Editor and Grader (phew) of this wonderful stop-motion animation, is also co-founder and creative director of The Theory. These guys have an impressive body of work on display where commercial and corporate ventures are concerened, but if this film is anything to go by; they have a deservedly bright future ahead of them. It may very well turn out to be my favourite short film of the year… and, yes, that includes ours.
Bugger.
And so it came to pass that the website known as quiteenjoy shed it’s skin…and there was much rejoicing.
Here at qe we don’t just write inane nonsense, oh no, we make inane videos too. After some thought on the matter (and a few whiskey’s) I decided that the videos were too hidden within the blog of the site. What with our upcoming projects it seemed a necessity to re-look at the design of the site and make it more video focused. So that’s what I’ve done- the new quiteenjoy went live yesterday evening.
What’s happened to the Blog?
It’s still here in all it’s glory (clearly- as this is a post on it) it’s right there on the navigation bar as “BLOG”.
There are lots of pictures on the home page
Yes there are aren’t there? Those are thumbnails for all our latest videos and blog posts in each category. If you want to see the entire category listing then click on the title above the thumbnail instead of the picture itself.
Have a play around and let me know how you get on. I do worry about you, you know.
Oh and if you find any bugs along the way, ignore them, they’re probably not life threatening.
A special addition of the quiteenjoy podcast- in glorious video. Filmed while shooting the Mocumentry “5 Probably went mad in Dorset”. Brown and Jenkins take the apt opportunity to discuss the state of television and internet media… while looking at a camera…in a pub.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 25:30 — 212.6MB) | Embed
Fay kindly pointed me to an app that turns any spoken words into an auto-tuned song! So i thought it only right that I abuse it…. enjoy (quite).
Mental, yet brilliant. 56 Million viewers can’t be wrong! Unless its the viewing figures for Big Brother in which case it is very, very wrong.
Enjoy!