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| New Books by DiaryUnlimited.com |
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| "The Y2K File" |
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The Y2K File, a "best of" compilation from the Y2K Diary (available here at DiaryUnlimited.com by subscription), is now available for download.
Summary
The ultimate guide to survive inside the internet and beyond, The Y2K File is the story of the Y2K diary.
Launched in 1999 at the turn of the new millennium it has witnessed all the events of the Y2K years until today; from the conspiracy theories to the "who's who" and "what's what" of the players, winners and losers weaving the web.
Since its inception the diary has often been described as a compendium of gobbledygook. Indeed what cannot be found on Google, can generally be found on the ultimate encyclopaedia of gibberish, the Y2K Diary. |
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| "The Original Edge Magazine" |
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The Original Edge magazine, a best/compilation from the magazine 1987-1999 is now available for download.
Summary
The Original Edge magazine is the story of the Edge magazine, 1987-1999. 130 pages. Color and BW. ISBN 13: 9780982292440. Format: paperback and Ebook.
The Edge was born in 1987 in Islington and in 1990 with a
European Community and Islington grant as they were
extremely keen in promoting the image of Islington as the
"Real London". The Edge had then a circulation of 25,000
ex. The Edge used a special imported Kraft paper from
France made out from 100% recycled textile with green
and red ink.
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Whilst the magazine was not a commercial success the format changed to a normal white but recycled paper, with an A3 size folded poster format with yellow pages of small ads inside. For three years 45 000 copies were mainly exported to the U.S.
and the rest of the world whilst only a handful of selling
points survived in Britain. During that intervening time
The Edge collected a mine full of images, photography,
artwork, graphics, stories, cartoons from various writers
and artists and over 300 interviews (most saved on tape).
By 1995, The Edge magazine was selling but wasn't
commercially viable so it was time to pull the plug. A series of periodicals came after that published by The
Edge Press; it showcased short novels and Art collections.
The periodicals were published until 1999.
Instead of a compendium or a 'best of' the magazine we
decided to publish a series of scans, some rough some bare
of the content, of some of the covers to bring an insight
into how the magazine was printed and received, how it
looked like and the random display of the scans
demonstrates the chaos the Edge magazine was under.
They were no defining rules and perhaps the only ones set
out from the start have been broken after the 10th issue: we
stopped using the special Kraft paper, the green and red
ink and became more 'traditional'. But actually the content
was anything but. "As long as it was Art it didn't matter
what it was". We've only managed to hold on for as long as
we did merely because we had generous sponsors and
advertisers and a great and faithful American readership.
Enter Tower record(s), which was one of the first U.S.
retailers to contact us and successfully distributed the magazine. |
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| "Closer to the Sun" |
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Closer to the Sun, screenplay from the feature film project is now available for download.
Summary
Screenplay to the feature film project: Closer to the Sun. A thriller.
ISBN 13: 978-0982292426. 76 pages. Format: paperback and eBook.
Four investigators are assembled by an insurance company in New York to examine a claim for accidental death of six oil workers on an oil platform, off the cost of Nigeria. The team has 24 hours to investigate the claim.
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It slowly transpires that it wasn't accidental death but that the oil workers have been taken hostage by local terrorists, a common occurrence that often goes without victims and in this case six men had died.
How to approve the claim when there are so many overwhelming evidences against it? The trouble is for a reputable international insurance company dismissing such a claim would place them at odds with the real problems in the country, place them on the spot as an unlikely human right witness and will compromise a whole system with ramifications to powerful Western governments and multinational companies. They have accidentally walked into highly dangerous grounds... |
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| "Speed of Light" |
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Speed of Light, screenplay from the feature film is now available on paperback and download.
Summary
(From the feature film)
ISBN-13: 978-0982292402, 130 pages. Release date: February 2012.
Two brothers land on an island and discover a huge and derelict warehouse. They discover what could happen at the speed of light. It's the tale of two stories colliding throughout an entire night. Two stories lived at the same time, but with a slightly different content.
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| "Map of the Universe" |
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Map of the Universe, screenplay from the feature film is now available on paperback and download.
Summary
(From the feature film)
978-0-9822924-5-7, 49 page eBook.
"Est" or "E.S.T." in the UK (the "Kelvin Game Show") is aired in Britain. The contestants will become patients and will be interviewed in the dark and locked in a house for one month.
The project is a journey into the brain of a series of contestants. Their state of mind is measured by 2 thermometers, one filtering the Kelvin degree and the other the EST degree, a mental state.
The winner of this experiment is the contestant who can survive this ordeal.
The book contains black and white images, transcripts from the interviews and key facts about the making of the film and its general release. |
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| "In and Out of Planet Earth" |
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In and Out of Planet Earth, screenplay from the feature film.
Summary
Screenplay to the feature film: In and Out of Planet Earth. Drama/Thriller. ISBN 13: 978-0982292471. 40 pages. Paperback.
Paul X has killed a man or thought he did- who made his life a misery.
Unable to live with the guilt he tries to jump into the river to end his life. Inside the river, deep underwater he will live sixty minutes 'in and out of planet earth' facing his victim and delving on the best method to kill someone. Deep inside water he encounters the same life he led before but amplified tenfold.
The violence, the sex and the man he really killed. |
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| "Virtual Alien" |
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Virtual Alien, screenplay from the feature film is now available on paperback and download.
Summary
Screenplay to the feature film: Virtual Alien. ISBN 13: 9781463784805. 50 pages. Paperback.
An interview documentary with the artist Virtual Alien about his work and music.
Set in London, England Virtual Alien or V.A. explains why it was right to start from London but explains he would never film in London again.
The documentary focuses on the life of Virtual Alien working in media for over twenty years (1987-2007) and starting in the business at the age of 14. |
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| "With a Mouse (to your Mouth)" |
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With a Mouse (to your Mouth), screenplay from the feature film. 38 pages. ISBN 13: 9781466492622. Format: Paperback and Ebook.
Summary
Screenplay to the feature film With a Mouse (to your Mouth)
Two friends are spending a week, day/night crossing London inside a black cab and reading a science fiction book. In the story their imagination is so powerful that they are able to become the characters from the book and re-create new and better realities around them in 3D and in blue.
The book is the story of X. X is a little germ entering someone's mouth. X's vision is somewhat blurred. Its vision is in 'distorted 3D'.
The mouth is the ultimate frontier between the inside of a creature and the rest of the universe. It is the border control. There is a long process before reaching the heart of the body. X aims to re-produce itself into the heart of the body just like a little mouse. When inside the body, X the germ can see, feel and breeze exactly what the creature's body sees, feels and breathes. It's often thrown out randomly. To be a germ is the ultimate fulfillment like multiple orgasms. A germ can dictate and control a whole body and there is very little anyone can do.
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| "The Y2K File (The Film)" |
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The Y2K File, screenplay from the feature film.
Summary
Screenplay from: The Y2K File, an Opera Murder Mystery Thriller. 44 pages. ISBN 13: 9780982292488. Format: Paperback and Ebook.
"The Y2K File" is the story of Knock-Knock. He has just lost his parents and his brother in a fire that had devastated the family house. Eager to move away from his frightening past he moves inside a big house in North London, a short walk through the forest. The house used to be inhabited by a family of thirteen who mysteriously disappeared.
When Knock-Knock was living in the house, a few events started to unfold; events that will terrify Knock-Knock, already traumatised by the death of his parents and his brother.
Everyday he will confide a report of the events to a website, the Y2K Diary.
The story starts at the dawn of the new millennium in November 1999.
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| "Writing on the Wall" |
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Burning from the Inside, Autobiographical story based on the feature-documentary directed by Nick Peterson.
Summary
Screenplay from the feature film Writing on the Wall starring: Mark Joseph. 62 pages. ISBN 13 9781466492639. Format: Paperback and Ebook.
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The film is set in London in the nineties. "A little fable about the rat and mouse population of London."
Somewhere in time two protagonists reminisce about the past. Mary-Jane D'Arbanville, exiled herself from her native New York to London. She landed in London in 1991 and lived with her new found friend Paul. The story comes out of Jane's very own diary called Map of the Universe, read in the future over a candle-lit dinner. Jane and Paul painted the diary, as the story unfolds, on the walls of London during the nineties. Whilst the story is taking place on earth, in Hell and in the Heavens above and at the same time, the two main characters are played by two different actors. |
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The Writing on the Wall is a series of graffiti on a wall. |
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| "Burning from the Inside" |
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Burning from the Inside, Autobiographical story based on the feature-documentary directed by Nick Peterson.
Summary
The project started in January 1997 and by September 2006 the media world had changed their general mood by describing the situation of "gangs, local tribes and the oil companies in conflict" as "armed militants and guerrillas against the government in a war zone".
The author has been warned at the beginning of the project to stay away from "these people". He thought the tone was a bit racist so he ignored this warning and ventured into it. Racist even so the person who warned him was a Nigerian-American.
The director has interviewed someone who had taken hostage over 30 people on an oil rig and killed nearly 20, two days before he met him. The director had some extreme warnings and email exchanges with heads of big oil companies. He had some lengthy email exchanges with the main members of the media establishment in Britain and a major fall out with some of the people he interviewed.
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A book describing the whole project, the making of it and its reception by the media and all the players is due to be published this year. I suppose Closer to the Sun is the final chapter and perhaps the last film the director will ever be involved with. The author cannot forget what had happened, the threats he has received for starting the project and for ending it. By 2007 he had to end and disconnect with all the parties involved even with the friends he had made. No one can understand a process of disconnection. It's the only way forward. It's called moving on. Burning from the Inside is perhaps too desperate for the human condition; it is the human condition. |
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| "Digital Broadcast" |
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Digital Broadcast, an interview with Paul Gambaccini.
Summary
The book is based on the documentary-feature based around the life of American broadcaster Paul Gambaccini, with an in-depth interview seen from a screen inside a TV studio by two journalists. The film demonstrates the changes in broadcasting in 30 years to a full High Definition broadcast.
Digital Broadcast was based on a 90 minutes interview the director had with Paul Gambaccini in 1999. Initially intended for an interactive TV presentation it was first released on CD-ROM for Nick Peterson's MA in Interactive Multimedia. It was released on DVD in 2006. Based on the full length version of 90 minutes: 10% (The presenter) of the film is in black and white 50% is in single colour (Blue, cyan, yellow, green, turquoise, orange and red) 40% is in full colour and HD.
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Paul Gambaccini has been extremely candid in his 90 minutes interview. He has almost divulged his whole autobiography and adding to this a personal insight by the writer into the media world in Britain.
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