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I am hoping that you will like my new video very much. It’s all about a little incident involving Andrew Gilligan and sock-puppets, and I was right in the middle of the spectacular James Bond fantasy finale when I tripped over a little man with his own James Bond fantasy finale on the horizon.
Anyway, it’s finally finished, and ready for your viewing pleasure:
Andrew Gilligan in OCTOPUPPET: a short film about sock-puppets from Tim Ireland on Vimeo.
There are a few things that make this new video special, but one of the neatest bits is that all major threads relevant to the Andrew Gilligan sock-puppeting event (and external to bloggerheads.com) have been preserved in this video with some 350+ screen captures forming the 14-second ‘rush’ sequence. No matter what happens to these websites in the future, the relevant bloggage will be locked up inside this animation like a little time capsule… so future generations may know the greatness of Andrew Gilligan and his works.
(A moment of amusement for you; mid-production, I left a message to that effect in one of those since-abandoned threads, only to provoke a gloriously typical if not entirely self-aware response from the sad sock-puppeting bastard who constantly trolls the Liberal Conspiracy site under the name ‘cjcjc’.)
All credits etc. are also in the video, but here I’d like to send a special message of thanks to comment regular Scotch, who was most helpful during the creative process and the long dry spells.
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UPDATE – Turns out my timing’s good, as Andrew Gilligan is busy disgracing himself again. Read all about it here, here and here, and (more recently) here.
Wonderful, wonderful stuff Tim.*pat on the back*
Nicely..
Nice, though hearing sock puppeting and Andrew Gilligan masturbating at the same time, makes me think of Charlie Brooker masturbating with an oven glove with a face on it on Screenwipe. Maybe that's what he meant by his "partner", eh?
Aww shucks (blushes).Cheers, mate.
My favourite sockpuppeting incident: sockpuppeting for Jesus. http://www.ship-of-fools.com/features/2006/myster…
Hey look – Gilligan attempts to out a sockpuppet himself:http://www.greenwich.co.uk/andrew-gilligan/foot-tunnel-closure/