I went to the red carpet of The Dark Knight European Premiere yesterday and took some nice snaps of Christian Bale, The Tumbler, and many other interesting actors and fans.

Melinda and I went to Mashed last weekend and we were asked to make 2 small fake movie trailers, to be shown before the main feature of the evening “Young Frankenstein“. Challenged to improve on our Torchwood Swede, we started thinking of some scripts. Melinda eventually wrote one script that lead to this little fake trailer. 

More successfully though, was the movie edited and directed by us that shot by Melinda and Jane Tandy using my Nikon D40.

A Tale of Two Bean Bags from Cristiano Betta on Vimeo.

The Geekdinners are coming thick and fast now, In the forth one of this year we have special guest Holmes Wilson one of the brains behind the very popular Miro Player (formally Democracy Player) and the Participatory Culture Foundation. A non-profit group setup to build tools and services that give people more ways to engage with and in their culture..

When: Thursday, March 13, 2008, 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Where: Ye Olde Cock Tavern (upstairs bar), 22 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1AA
Nearest Underground: Temple or Chancery Lane
Special Guests: Holmes Wilson
Cost: 5 pounds for Food
Upcoming: 419336

Please use the upcoming link or comment below to indicate your interest

So my second Geek Dinner is over and done with, and although I felt it went better, we still had problems with the venue and the food. We might be looking for a new venue somewhere in the future. DataPortability proved to be a very interesting topic as we had way more people show up this time. Lots of new faces which is always a good thing. Below are the photos.

We also tried to stream the talk, but the “The Cloud”-hotspot died after about 10 minutes making even normal internet communication impossible. Maybe next time. Improbulus recorded most of the talk though, which is actually interesting to listen at if you weren’t there. Click through to the full article to see the video.
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By popular demand we have decided to set up a Ustream of the talk tonight. We got someone to give us access to the BT Openzone and have setup a Ustream channel in preparation. Tonight the talk will start at about 8:30, and you can watch the video here.

Unfortunately I think we do still need a better microphone cause in-build microphones for laptops sound awful in video streams. So, if you have a decent mic solution for tonight, please bring it along!