{"id":21982,"date":"2020-04-21T14:32:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T13:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/?p=21982"},"modified":"2020-06-12T06:29:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T05:29:40","slug":"april-lockdown-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/21\/april-lockdown-update\/","title":{"rendered":"April Lockdown Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hello my dears<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;re all well and staying safe during this pandemic.\u00a0I don&#8217;t know how it&#8217;s impacting on you, but for me, I seem unable to concentrate on computer stuff, hence the long wait since my last post. I just don&#8217;t have the willpower tou sit at a screen. I&#8217;ve had to force myself to write this today.<\/p>\n<p>Similar tale with TV. I can sit to watch a show and I&#8217;m constantly pausing to check for phone updates. And I fall alseep a lot in front of the telly, despite sleeping well at night.\u00a0It&#8217;s different ways of reacting to the state we live in I guess.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to be creative, done lots of garden work, tidying, weeding, planting. I make lots of videos, dog walks, bird song, etc. More of that further down.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of things I&#8217;d like to promote though&#8230; 5 years ago, I worked on a web series called <strong>Barry Pigeon Protects<\/strong>, all about a night security guard sharing his life via webcam. Lovely project written\/directed and produced by Kurt Brookes and Andrew Birtwell.<\/p>\n<p>My old mate Doug Thorp asked if I could rekindle Barry as a guest for his <strong>Broken Biscuits \u00a0Online Cabaret<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I asked Kurt and Andy, and within a week we had it written, shot and edited. Due to lockdown, I shot at home with a green screen, and my old security cabin office magically appeared in editing.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/409545956\"><strong>Broken Biscuits Online No. 2<\/strong><\/a>. Barry Pigeon is the final artiste in the show&#8230; It&#8217;s well worth the watch as an alternative to the assault of information we have these days.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Broken Biscuits Online No.2.\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/409545956?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For those who want just a dose of\u00a0<strong>Barry Pigeon<\/strong>, here&#8217;s the new episode&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/__sTxzSI1co?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And good new Pigeon fans, more Barry is likely to be forthcoming \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll update when I can.<\/p>\n<p>Other bits of creativity overcome me. The opening of <strong>David Bowie&#8217;s Diamond Dogs\u00a0<\/strong>album, the spoken track\u00a0<strong>Future Legend<\/strong>, is something I committed to memory at age 16.<br \/>\nThe words kept coming back to me recently, so here it is, performed as a monologue&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PCcO1yELPJY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I have another favourite song committed to memory that I plan to make a video for. A more complicated production, but hopefully coming soon.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned earlier, I&#8217;ve been filming my daily dog walks, and sharing on my Facebook feed as Virtual Dog Walking for Shut Ins. I also post my daily Twitter Feeds&#8230; the sound of bird song captured in the park.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m putting these on to my YouTube Channel now, so here&#8217;s a link to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLCrKY2R9L3c5GF4n7DiJQC98fFA41C709\"><strong>Virtual Dog Walks Playlist&#8230;.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-gallery\" data-currpage=\"1\" id=\"epyt_gallery_62751\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_67649\"  width=\"604\" height=\"340\"  data-origwidth=\"604\" data-origheight=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  data-epytgalleryid=\"epyt_gallery_62751\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/figure><div class=\"epyt-gallery-list\"><div>Sorry, there was a YouTube error.<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLCrKY2R9L3c4DnUH2OroiZeYjRINdcw0X\"><strong>Norfolk Park Twitter Feed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-gallery\" data-currpage=\"1\" id=\"epyt_gallery_26609\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_98381\"  width=\"604\" height=\"340\"  data-origwidth=\"604\" data-origheight=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  data-epytgalleryid=\"epyt_gallery_26609\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/figure><div class=\"epyt-gallery-list\"><div>Sorry, there was a YouTube error.<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Okay, hope you enjoyed the walkies and the birds.\u00a0I&#8217;ll keep adding to the Playlists so keep checking back.<\/p>\n<p>Stay safe, love your friends and family &#8211; and tell them you do.<br \/>\nWe all need it right now.<br \/>\nI hope to update again soon.<\/p>\n<p>D x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello my dears I hope you&#8217;re all well and staying safe during this pandemic.\u00a0I don&#8217;t know how it&#8217;s impacting on you, but for me, I seem unable to concentrate on computer stuff, hence the long wait since my last post. I just don&#8217;t have the willpower tou sit at a screen. I&#8217;ve had to force &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcclellandmedia.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/21\/april-lockdown-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">April Lockdown Update<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"April Lockdown Update. 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