paralympics

The Upload begins….

May 17, 2012 by Mik Scarlet

I am currently at the start of a marathon encoding session, with a pile of old VHS tapes filled with some of the programs I recorded for TV. I thought I’d lost them, but my Mum found them all in the loft of our family home. It’s weird experience watching

Ranting Round-Up No.1

September 23, 2011 by Mik Scarlet

Now where to start? As I’ve been crazy busy recently the list of things “Grinding My Gears” is quite long. The first was C4’s Sainsbury’s Super Saturday. This music and sports show was to celebrate the launch of ticket sales for the Paralympics and was aired over a whole weekend

Bladerunner Blues

August 29, 2011 by Mik Scarlet

Today I did something that I almost never do. So rare an event that it dragged my wife away from her Physics studies to find out what was going on, and as she has a paper due in three days she hasn’t got time to waste. You see today I

Too Close For Comfort

July 27, 2011 by Mik Scarlet

So the Olympics opening ceremonies are now a year away, with the Paralympics following 44 days after. Whatever my feelings on the event now, when the bid for the games was announced I was overjoyed. In fact I volunteered to help the bid team by demonstrating how the games would

Showreel-tastic

July 11, 2011 by Mik Scarlet

I spent the weekend encoding and uploading a pile of old video clips from my TV presenting career, as well as editing a new showreel. I’ve now got that online too, and here it is…. What was really weird was having to sit and watch myself presenting, especially as the

Out of Touch? Part 2

March 14, 2011 by Mik Scarlet

I would like to say sorry for being away for a while (mad busy) and thanks to everyone who commented on my last blog. I’m so glad that there are people who do believe that how we are portrayed in the media is as important as just being portrayed. Part