Category Archive for: ‘Something Nice’

On the seventh day of Christmas,
The bakery gave to us all:
Two more nice videos to enjoy!

So the 17th day of Christmas is upon us, leaving only 8 days till the big jolly fat man comes sliding down our chimneys, and how better to continue the count down by breaking the mould!

Here are two videos doing JUST THAT*

*that was a lie. But I enjoyed them.

On the sixteenth day of Christmas,
The bakery gave to us all:
A selection of Japanese videos

Now you may or may not be one of those people that absolutely loves all things Japanese, but even if you don’t own Akira pajamas, listen to the Glay back catalogue or call rock-paper-sissors ‘janken’, we can all do with a little Japanese craziness from time to time.

So take a look at the videos below and enjoy the warm feeling you get when you remember you’re not foreign.

Apart from Chef Gate. He’s always foreign.

And I really don’t know what is going on here…

On the fifteenth day of Christmas,
The bakery gave to us all:
An introduction to the first Wicked Pig film
which was asked for and then never used

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Anybody who has spent any time around the Bakery kitchen in the last 6 months will be aware that Chef Dan and I have been exhausting ourselves producing vast quantities of material for our wise overlords at Sty TV. Once we have baked and iced all this video content, we are usually instructed to cut it into bits, get rid of the icing, and pick out all the fruit. The resultant stale crumbs are then uploaded to YouTube.

Below is an introduction which we were asked to produce to complement the first Wicked Pig Challenge video. Once upon a time there was supposed to be an introduction like this for all 4 episodes (Ours is not to reason why). After producing and submitting this first introduction, we were then informed it was never going to be used. Although the last few seconds were trimmed off to make a short movie teaser.

Please consider this a Bakery curiosity, hurriedly cobbled together while we were in the middle of millions of other things. But we thought it should see the light of day. Enjoy:

And in case you’re not familiar with it, here is the frankly unfeasible buyacredit.com

On the fourteenth day of Christmas,
Gaetan gave to us all:
Silence

On the thirteenth day of Christmas,
The Bakery gave to us all:
some photos that will hopefully be exhibited in Spain.

Several weeks ago I was approached by the organisers of an exhibition in Spain called Espacio Nudage. Apparently they really enjoyed the rural theme of my photos (insert Gloucester based in-breeding jokes here) and asked me to submit a selection to put forth to a panel of judges. If I am one of the lucky 10 photographers to be chosen, then these photos below will be printed and hung in The Provencial Historic Archive in Santander, North Spain.

You can also view my photos here, amongst all of the other entries:
WARNING: PRETENTIOUS WORK SYNOPSIS INCLUDED
http://www.espacionudage.com/en/index.php?pry=408&tit=F&menu=F.

On the twelfth day of Christmas,
The Bakery gave to us all:
a boring report.

The Bakery Conference 2010: A warm bowl in London Town.

Hello, it’s Tom German here, writing not under one of my many aliases, but as my undiluted, majestic self. I was originally going to write about Wizardry, and it is still my intention to do so, however in the spirit of not actually writing the blog post I intend to, I thought I would write about the Bakery’s conference that we held this weekend somewhere in greater London.

Our new favourite blend

I arrived on the Friday after a particularly torturous week of teacher training, anxious as to what I might find. Would Dan Fryer finally be pursuing a career as an Angler? Would Richard Dadd have taken up Bagatelle professionally? I arrived with more questions than answers. Imagine my relief when I was met by a familiar and friendly bearded face at the train station, in a grey overcoat and a pair of suspiciously fashionable plastic media glasses. I was hailed in a mighty Stentorian roar that drowned out all of London’s traffic and bought a plane down on Selfridges. It was everyone’s favourite Bakery Chef, Pom–Bear (aka Dan Fryer). He proceeded, much to my delight, to whisk me into the nearest pipe emporium, a treasure trove of unhealthy delights I might add, and buy me a cardboard box of Dr Plumbs pipe filters. He also purchased pipe cleaners, 25g of Holland House Cavendish Shag, 50g of Petersons Deluxe blend and a cigar for after dinner. Our weekly shopping done, we neared the train station, bowls a blazing, with ancient Bakery stories of yore tripping off our tongues.
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On the eleventh day of Christmas,
The Bakery gave to us all:
Some Idents

Inspired by some of the other chefs’ posts of things of a joyous past, I had a little rummage around myself. I managed to dig out item #1: an indent for the dvd release of “Whiteboy Mashup” I believe. The Ident was directed beautifully by Chef Alaric King, however, to my knowledge, has never seen the light of day-  UNTIL NOW!

Beautiful.

This made me think of other Bakery Identy type things – and it just so happened I had item #2 lying around. A little test I had been playing around with. I hit the big 3D button and got it rendered. So here it is. Short and sweet.