WEIRD WEEKEND 2013: Richard Ingram

WEIRD WEEKEND 2013: Ivan T Sanderson and the mysterious footprints

CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: On The Track (Of Unknown Animals) Episode 60

The latest episode of our monthly webTV show from the CFZ and CFZtv, bringing you news on our activities within cryptozoology and natural history as well as the latest cryptozoological and monster-hunting news from around the world. I can't believe that we have done this every month for five years now - 60 episodes. Golly!

This episode brings you:

CFZ in summer
Weird Weekend
The Crypto Community
Breeding Caecilians
Mystery cat sounds
Otoliths of unknown cichlids
Corinna looks at out of place birds
New and Rediscovered: New 'penis head' fish
New and Rediscovered: New molar-less rodent
New and Rediscovered: New sharks

LIZ CLANCY: APOCALYPSE 1080p: Last Day of the World

It's been a long time since my last post for the CFZ bloggo but I have several incredibly good excuses. One is that I'm currently working on a film project and would like to invite CFZ bloggo readers to get involved. And CFZ TV.

In Montreal, back in January 1999, a couple of friends made a simple bet between themselves: produce an original short film every month until the New Millennium and the End of the World. Twelve months later these friends were disappointed to learn that the Apocalypse had been postponed, but they had kept their bet and 200 short films later, KINO was born!

http://www.planetekino.com/index.php?s=kino&lang=en

Twelve years later, as the year 2012 looms and the 'Mayan Doomsday' silly season appears set to strike with full force, we thought we’d commemorate KINO’s apocalyptic origins by posing ONE simple question:

IF the world is ending on 21st December 2012 (as doomsday theorists claim) how would YOU spend the world’s very Last Day?

Fulfilling your wildest ‘bucket list’ desires? Saying your last goodbyes? Getting plastered? Cowering inside your bomb shelter? Making passionate love?

Partially inspired by the Ridley Scott documentary ‘Life in a Day’ and Michael Jackson’s ‘Behind the Mask’ music video, Manchester Making Films Inspirational [MMFI] and SirClancelot Films are inviting Kino filmmakers worldwide to star in the ‘Apocalypse 1080p’ cinema project by sending us your most creative films showing how YOU plan to spend the Last Day of the World. The best footage will be used to create an amazing world-sourced, feature-length science fiction movie to be released in December 2012.

From something as basic as a 30-second mobile phone video clip of your last will and testament before the '2012 apocalypse' to the most elaborate 'countdown to Armageddon' flash mob, feel free to have all the fun in the world in creating your masterpieces.

WHAT WERE YOU DOING ON THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED?
Imagine it. Film it. Send it in.

Pull out all creative stops. Think outside the box. Let your creativity (and cameras) run wild and send us your most amazing 21/12 'bucket list' films!

Submissions may be filmed with mobile phone, camcorder, DSLR or any other means. They may be of any length and should strive for a minimum resolution of 1080p HD (though films of lesser resolution will be accepted).

Open a Free account and upload your films to Vimeo at:

http://vimeo.com/

Then send us the web link to your film (along with your full name, phone number and email address) via Facebook Message.

Alternatively, you can post your entries on CD or DVD to:

SirClancelot Films
88 Abbey Crescent
Heywood
Lancashire
OL10 4UG

(Remember to enclose your full name, phone number and email address. Submissions are non-returnable and may be re-edited as needed.)

Closing date for entries: 30 June 2012. Please disregard the 'Tuesday, March 20, 2012' closing date indicated at the top. (For some reason Facebook will not allow you to create an event that lasts for more than 4 months.)

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Could all participants refrain from adding any names, titles, dates or any other visual information to the films they submit. These will be added in post-production. Furthermore, in submitting material for this project you are doing so under the terms of the Creative Commons Public License.

MAKE THE LAST DAY OF THE WORLD COUNT FOR SOMETHING.
Imagine it. Film it. Send it in.

JUST A SPOT OF HOUSEKEEPING

We have done some cleaning up on the CFZ websites. We have got rid of the domain CFZtv.org, and are using our YouTube channel instead. We have fixed a few dodgy links, and amended the blurb about CFZtv. We will be doing more odds and sods throughout the day so if anyone has problems getting on to the site, please be forbearing....

CRYPTOZOOLOGY ONLINE: On The Track (Of Unknown Animals) Episode 50

The latest episode of our monthly webTV show from the CFZ and CFZtv, bringing you the latest cryptozoological, and monster hunting news from around the world.

This episode brings you:

CFZ in autumn
introducing Dan
Emily and the big cats
Sumatra expedition
Preparing trailcams
Crocodile stories - a Phillipino giant - short sightedness in The Phillipines - let's all do the taxonomy shuffle
Changes at the CFZ
Happy Birthday Max
Corinna looks at out of place birds
New and Rediscovered: New dolphin
New and Rediscovered: New frogs
New and Rediscovered: New sparrow

CFZ SUMATRA EXPEDITION: Is Orang Pendek a tool user?

ONE FROM THE ARCHIVES: A young-looking Jon and Richard on the trail of the golden frogs of Bovey Tracey in 2001

WEIRD WEEKEND VIDEOS

The whole of the 2010 Weird Weekend is now up, for free, on YouTube. We try to do it every year: we did it in 2008, but sadly there were technical issues that meant that a large amount of the films of 2009 were not really usable. I hope that you enjoy them, and that they whet your appetite for next year's event.



Enjoy.

WW2010: Well it has been edited!

The editing and embedding has all been done, and by the time that you read this everything will have been uploaded. The rest of the postings will appear on the bloggo over the next few days. As I wrote the other day, the only exceptions are mine and Corinna's blue dog talk, which suffered from equipment failure, and the two short films that are not ours to show. Three or four minutes has also been omitted from Ronan's talk for legal reasons but never fear, you still see him ride his trusty steed into the sunset.


I have also not posted things like drawing raffle tickets or the kid's cake-eating contest (which did include the priceless sight of the Colonel joining one of the teams who were behaving like a ravenous plague of locusts) because they are essentially of the 'You had to be there' persuasion; likewise there is no film of the cocktail party.


If you want to know what they are/were like, you had better book early for next year's event.


Slainte

WW2010

We are firing ahead with the embedding, editing and posting of the videos of this year's event. The whole event will be on CFZtv within the next few days - we are doing Sunday lunchtime already. There are a couple of exceptions to this - My talk on Texas Blue Dogs had a camera failure half way through, and we are not going to broadcast the two short films we showed because they are not our copyright. But apart from that the rest of the weekend is/will be up very soon.

Each year I have someone suggest to me that we release the talks from the WW on a series of DVDs and charge for it. We won't do that. That smacks unpleasantly of exploitation to me. We would rather do it our way.

Enjoy!