As I Xi It v2.3

Here, Watson demonstrates how he likes to eat a sunflower seed.

How Watson Eats Sunflower Seeds from Xi on Vimeo.

Sophie and I were chatting on MSN as we so often do and the topic came up about photos of us eating. Then it came to me, why not do a video slideshow of eating and food photos?! I could do it to Food Glorious Food from the musical Oliver!

I’m just full of these creative ideas sometimes that it surprises even me!

Eating South Africa from Xi on Vimeo.

Here’s an homage to King of the Hill featuring Cici!

Cici’s Window from Xi on Vimeo.

Just the other day, I popped into The Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea, just along the Kings Road in Duke of York Square. It’s free to enter and they were showcasing contemporary works by some chinese artists. More info available on their site.

Here’s a video of the interactive installation down in the basement (Old Person’s Home by Sun Yuan & Peng Yu). It’s a bit odd but quite good.

More pics around the gallery here.

Old Person’s Home from Xi on Vimeo.

This one looks like it could be Yasser Arafat.

In my recent obsession with making animations/ time lapses/ flicks/ short movies/ creative bits of art/ moving images/ whatever you want to call them, I thought I’d give another video hosting site a go apart from the ubiquitous YouTube.

I’ve seen a few vids hosted on Vimeo and they look so much cleaner and nicer than on YouTube. To test it out, I made a slide-show using some of the pics from my Europe backpacking trip some years ago. I’ve only got Windows Movie Maker as my video editing software at the moment so the quality of this vid isn’t quite as high def as I’d like. Also, the pics I used were only 600 x 400 px (resized for Zoto uploading). Despite these constraints, it’s not too shabby.

Anyway, without further ado, here’s the slide-show -

Europe Backpacking 2006 from Xi on Vimeo.