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The Wars of the Warsaw Mafias
Original YT playout date: 12 October 2008
Duration: 5:30
Using the Creative Vado discrete small size, I was able to risk snatching some covert footage of an altercation in Ochota. A “debt collecting” team from one organisation making a subtle but very meaningful statement outside the home of another prominent organization member. Thankfully on this occasion the violence did not get out of hand…
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Warsaw Storm
Original YT playout date: 26 September 2008
Duration: 18:57
The storm clouds gather over my home. What do I do? Go up to the twelfth floor, and take some footage, that’s what!
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Footage from a Warsaw Bike Ride
Original YT playout date: 30 July 2008
Duration: 26:21
What’s it like riding a bike through Warsaw? Find out with this experimental footage taken while riding using a camera mounted using a gorillapod to the handlebars…
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A Warsaw Evening in the company of Mr Alan Heath
Original YT playout date: 8 June 2008
Duration: 39:51
It’s a pleasant Warsaw evening, just the ticket for a chat with another prolific youtuber, and Alan Heath (channel name “alanheath”) is one of Poland’s most prolific, and like me he is a non-Pole living here. He is also the provider of quite a few of the Viz letters, and so if you see the name Alan Heath in the letters page on Viz, yes, this is one and the same man!
We have lift off
Original YT playout date: 17 May 2008
Duration: 6:57
Taking off in a Boeing 737 on a day with reasonable visibility, I reconed there was a good chance to see my flat from the air, and so I did. Actually we were going to Madrid but I didn’t make this part of the Madrid series as it had a different focus.
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Starlinggrad!
Original playout date: 26 January 2008
Duration: 1:11
Some times in the year, here in Warsaw, we get inundated with huge flocks of starlings.
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Windows on Warsaw
Original playout date: 21 December 2007
Duration: 9:59
“I think you’ll quite like this concept. All of these clips were taken before, during or after actual business meetings I had in Warsaw in the late Summer of 2007. I discovered it’s quite remarkable how many people in business actually take an interest in digital photography and video. Read the rest of this entry
Huliganov’s “Downtown”
Original playout date: 29 September 2007
Duration: 4:29
This one is a mix of types of footage, Logicam and Fuji together, and a seamless overlay of Warsaw driving footage over the karaoke track done at my desk. This is a new experiment, like many of my films have been.
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Warsaw Marathon Part 2
Original playout date: 28 September 2007
Duration: 16:44
At the finishing line
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Warsaw Marathon Part 1/2
Original playout date: 24 September 2007
Duration: 9:09
This is a year before my own attempt at the Marathon. This time I just came to film and watch.
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In the Ghetto
Original playout date: 15 July 2007
Duration: 0:38
This is Lucka Street in Warsaw, but you’d have been seriously outta luck if you were living here in the Second World War, as it was the site of the Warsaw Ghetto and Jewish people were held captive in their own heighbourhood, awaiting their fate and the final showdown.
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