Originally a children’s book by Maurice Sendak, Where The Wild Things Are is being turned into a rather impressive and fun looking film by Video Days’ legendary director Spike Jonze. With loads of collaborations with the Girl and Lakai already on the shelves the hype machine looks like it’s in full flow even though its not due for release until this Autumn/Winter time. Click read more to see the trailer for it.

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Lowestoft trio Faster Than Robots ventured over to the big city to play the Edward VII in Norwich last night, having managed to miss several of their previous gigs I was glad they were playing just down the road from where I live, gave me no excuses not to go. Boy am I glad I went, despite the guy before singing songs about Woody Allen, The Goonies and comparing women to broken gas boilers. Faster Than Robots played a brilliantly energetic set, they are playing the Waterfront on 28th May so I’ll be sure to make that one too. Check out the flickr set for more photos.

I’ve given up on monthly updates to the wallpapers section, so it’s now a page that I’ll update from time to time and let you here on the frontpage. Anyway there’s three new ones available to download if you go through to the new wallpapers section.

As a Web Designer  you occasionally visit a website and are blown away by something, thinking “I wish I had that idea or their skills” I had one of those moments to day after stumbling upon the Eco Zoo site. The site is a Japanese site promoting eco thinking, it uses some rather fun 3D work similar to the iPhone game Zen Bound, with brilliant characters, pop-up books, ambient sounds and perfect attention to detail. If only I could say it was my creation.

It’s nearly that time again, the Summer festival’s are slowly approaching. Latitude 2009 has been confirmed for the 16th-19th July 2009 once again at the lovely setting on the Henham Estate between Beccles and Southwold. Tickets go on sale on the 23rd March via the official Latitude website, the headlining acts will also be confirmed then too. In the mean time have a look back at some of our photos from last year’s event.

Update: The line-up has been announced today with the headliners have been confirmed as Grace Jones, Pet Shop Boys and Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds. The full line-up can be found here. Also confirmed however not listed on the site yet are Editors, Gossip and Doves.

Visit our dedicated Latitude 2009 page to keep up to date on the latest announced acts

Norwich skate video maker Lewis “Spex” Ross has another Norwich-centric video almost ready for your viewing pleasure. The premiere of Get Out is this Saturday at the Stew Gallery in Norwich. I’m sure it will be available on DVD soon after from Drift Skateshop in Norwich. Check out the promo on YouTube now.

Ash Lever - Tailslide into Bank

On a day that started at Woodbridge skatepark as a warm-up session before some real street, this park ended up being the best part of the day. With super smooth floor, nice transitions and cool little manual/grind block, it beats a windy wasteland spot or a wet ditch any day (I’m sure if the weather had been better I might not being saying that). However this park is a fine example of how councils finally understand they can’t get away with building shoddy tin can parks anymore.

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It looks like those Polaroid camera’s aren’t going to have to colelct dust once the 600 film stock runs out. After a group of integral film experts going under the name of Impossible Company  have acquired the Enschede (Holland) factory complete with all the production equipment, with the intent to start production of a new integral film by 2010. Check out the Impossible Project website for the full story and check out our old article about Polaroids.

The investigative journailst disguised as a comedian, Mark Thomas is coming to the Playhouse in Norwich on the 24th April (and the 22nd June if you miss him). I’ve been a fan for several years since his Channel 4 TV show The Mark Thomas Product which dealt with some pretty heavy political subjects in an accessible way. Last year I finally got the opportunity to see him live at Latitude Festival, where he dealt primarily with his latest book Belching Out the Devil which is all about Coca-Cola. Even if you are not normally interested in the heavier side of life, I almost guarantee Mark will make you think.