A quick vlog project done for Retro Yakking. Well, I say ‘quick’ because it was supposed to be a one-day thing but I ended up spending about three looking around for interesting stuff on Street View. Research, what can you do about it, eh?
Anyhow, please excuse the pants frame rate but my capture software simply couldn’t handle the sheer power of my computer…
Video Blurb: This ain’t no ordinary sightseeing tour, oh no. For a start, its woefully incompetent guide has no real knowledge of… well, anything, really. On the plus side, this does make for some wholly irrelevant and hopefully amusing comment that might keep you watching for the full four minutes. I doubt it though.
I’m a bit wary of promising anything here on the Illarterate blog as the vast majority of half completed projects I announce never get finished off. Sorry to build your expectations like that, if you were hoping to see, for example, the feature length animation Kid Gang or even Metal Gear Salford.
For this reason I’ve been trying to record completed projects such as those recent video game vlogs instead of partially worked stuff I never get the chance/motivation to finish. Rest assured, in my absence from this blog, stuff is going on behind the scenes, albeit in a more curtailed fashion than previous.
To this end, there may be a revival for the once-popular small time internet weblog Retro Yakking – certainly I’ve got a few posts lined up in the immediate future. Since Christmas I’ve had plans in place for RY to become more ‘bloggy’, with a more natural and less rigid style than the staple news parodies of 2009. Speaking of news parodies… YNN is on hiatus until further notice (which may be much longer than I originally thought).
Why Retro Yakking and not YNN? Well, the former has an established audience, even if most of its followers deserted it in New Year when I decided to take a break. Plus, I get the feeling things are less pressured there, allowing me to free up my writing style — which you’ll probably have noticed by now is punctuated by comma splicing, dry and matter of fact commentary with the odd non-sequitur. If you’ve ever seen my Illogicopedia stuff you’ll know what I mean.
Jesus Was A Wiganer and Illogiblog fans will notice I’ve never actually been away, though there are relatively few of them out there so it hardly matters. Boo!
Harry Yack’s had a Teletext makeover! Get down to the Retro Yakking Today blog and check out its new, tweaked header. The change marks a wider revamp for the site, which will start to focus on the retro subjects promised in the title as well as a variety of new topics including opinions and such thinly disguised as parody news stories. Currently updated with two posts per day, but I don’t know how long this will last for.
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