A word to visitors from Not Part Of from the desk of Film Tube headquarters

Hello there, and welcome to Film Tube's blog.

My name is Dom Harbot. I organise and host Film Tube. That is not me to the left.

You may be asking yourself "What is Film Tube?". If not, go away. Film Tube is a video and animation showcase night for the underdogs and the forgotten. I compile a bunch of stuff from around the webs which range from the enthralling and mind blowing to the short, stupid crap which will grab your attention by slapping you across the face.

The night is organised so that if you get a bit bored or don't like a piece that is playing it is no faux pas at all to ignore whats going on and chat to your mate. No "shhhhhhh-ing" going on here. And even then, each section is 20 minutes long with no one piece longer than 10 minutes. It's a night which caters to the ADD amongst us. Also, we occasionally have a competition and / or a special guest doing a live 15 minute slot just to shake things up.

So, you Not Part Of people (and I know your looking at this page, blogger tells me on the stats page where the net traffic is coming from, yeah Big Bro is watching you! I have the tools), what can you expect on the 30th of June? Well I already have some short films and animations which are innovative and thrilling as well as a 10 second clip of a drunk man riding a pig. So come on down you lucky, lucky people.

Oh, and it's free.

Looking through the web I spy Ponies...

So, I'm looking around the web at the moment for clips, videos and all I keep seeing are these bastards:Ponies. Little ones. My Little Ponies. Everywhere. Remixes. Dubs. I... don't get it. This is what I remember about them:


That dopey look with a head that easily pops off. Oh, and that little girls play with them. I asked on my facebook why the net is going crazy over these things and how it's got to the point it's almost a meme in it's own right. The simple answer I got back was that online people are just really into this new animation. Perhaps Ponies are this mini-generation's Power Puff Girls? I don't know. I don't get it. I don't care.

HOWEVER, out of ALL THE CRAP (I don't like Weird Al, he tries to hard in a desperate way) I've happened across this excellent physics presentation about the world of My Little Pony stands out as a gem!

I'm impressed needless to say. It's 10 minutes long and I don't feel it's suitable for Film Tube but check it out, bloody marvelous!

I did a pretty picture

Otherwise known as this coming events poster...

ONLINE FILM TUBE SPECIAL: Doomsday Edition

I think the world was supposed to end yesterday... yesterday I spent marveling at my 10 week year old daughter discovering her hands and spent the night dancing badly in a smelly club (myself, not my daughter). Nothing seemed world ending-ish last night and today it's just spitting outside (perhaps a precursor to a flood?).

Anywhichway, I thought it would be quite apt to post some links to a few doomsday / apocalypse / rapture-esque like works. Make sure you keep your eyes peeled on the blog as if this mini online version of Film Tube proves popular I just may do it again. Enjoy and happy doomsday!

• Captain Planet Rampage
• The End of the World
• Cute Explosion
• BRODYQUEST
• A Boy and his Dog - excellent 70's cult film, the entire thing is on youtube in 10 parts

And if the fires of the apocalypse do appear a bit late, here's a tune to get you through it:

Gone To Jericho - Peculiar Pretzelmen

New Dates and general updatery...

Ok, ok... so I've been a 'bit' lax in my intentions to supply all the links of the videos I've been showing. But, hey, get over it - I'm a busy fella. I will say though, if there's a video you see on the night please give me a nod and ask (during the night or on here) and I'll fill you in on all the details.

So, the most recent Film Tube was a Star Wars theme affair, and it was bloody marvelous. It had an audience! Which helps. We also had a live puppet show thanks to Mr. Pete Kennedy, Pico and his friends from Puppetual Motion. It went down so well they will be doing a semi regular slot now! Pop over to their facebook page and give them a yell.

Another change as a result of the night is that I will be doing themes for each one now. We will still show a few random videos here and there but a theme will always be skulking in the background.

Anyhow, NEW DATES... things are going a bit screwy. We WERE going to move to the 2nd Tuesday each month but due to some certain circumstances we WILL be doing the 2nd Tuesday next month AND the last Wednesday... the the last Wednesday every month. Oh and there's going to be a Not Part Of festival special in July... and a special in December too...

Got that? Good.

Ok chaps and chapettes... here are the upcoming dates and themes:

• Tuesday 10th June: Superheros & Bastards
• Wednesday 29th June: The END IS NIGH
• Thursday 7th July: Not Part Of Festival Special Extravagnza with Kung Fu
• Wednesday 27th July: Pirates, Ninjas & CATS!
• Wednesday 31st August: Summer Special, not with Cliff Richard
• Wednesday 28th September: The 80's... nuff said.
• Wednesday 26th October: IT'S HALLOWEEN, muh...
• Wednesday 30th November: Battle of the sexes. With lasers, and perhaps robots.
• Tuesday 13th December: The compulsory Christmas edition

I'm sat in the office staring out of the window just thinking these things up so they may change. In fact if you can think of a theme you would like post a comment below.

Anyhow, bye people


PS. Spell check won't work so don't preach!