Presentation movie clips
There are movies associated with the Animal Parables and Salt Solution here, but also a few odds and ends that I have come up with over the years. It builds into a strange collection of some useful, reusable clips and some curiosities.
Something’s not right in the world. Ever get that feeling? I feel that way too. With retro 80s-style video and a lyric that rolls on and on over the horizon this is a list of similes that grasped what that wrongness feels like. The ‘Something Missing‘ video is released as Mervyn Sprocket.
‘Escapology’ is an electro-jazz-funk track about the mystery of living in the physical world when the unseen spiritual world is more real than many realise. Released as Mervyn Sprocket (feat. Alice Hoyle) and borrowing from the films of Buster Keaton
‘Super Stimu-memorite’ is a satire on the exam heavy education system with visuals that range from Busby Berkley to Picasso via Oliver Reed. Released as Mervyn Sprocket.
In the 2020 pandemic Martin wrote a song about the difficulties of finding young love in the lock-down, under his stage name of Mervyn Sprocket, and directed his first ever pop video
The 2020 US Presidental Election saw President Donald Trump surpassing even himself. ‘Donald The President’ is a parody cartoon based on the children’s song ‘Nellie the Elephant’
A great old song, a dodgy old movie and some advertising images – sounds unlikely but add the most momentous story ever told and you get a powerful presentation
Martin Day runs a fat-suit sumo wrestling party business called Sumo Experience. This is a trailer for a planned training DVD. Watch out for “the Matrix effect”. © Martin Day 2006
In a blend of two world of Martin Day real sumo wresting footage is set to music. And the music is a Salt Solution track “When’s it Gonna Change” with Martin singing.
A presentation of the Christmas story composed from stills from the Jesus of Nazareth film and using the song ‘He was’.
This Mock-umentary is not Martin Day’s work at all but a creation of one of his old work colleagues, Bill Sahner. Martin is the subject of this peace of hokum that seamlessly blends fact with fantasy.
One of Martin’s day jobs is running fat-suit sumo wrestling party business Sumo Experience. This is him presiding over the fun at a stag night event. He is the one in the Kimono.
Martin Day’s entry to the Radio 1 Superstar VJ competition, using Salt Solution‘s `Sonbathing` and Creative Archive Licence footage from the BBC.
Big wave surfing to the song ‘New Life‘ by Salt Solution.
An extract from a live presentation of ‘The Crab‘ story. It’s a parable of how we can be come hardened by likes knocks and how this results in false self that needs to be shed.
A full length video presentation of ‘The Mackerel’ story. It’s a parable of how when forgiveness is withheld it causes pain and suffering to the injured one. But the act of forgiveness brings health, wholeness and intimacy to the forgiver.
Images to accompany the passage about the end times from 2 Peter 3 and set to ‘Claire de Lune’
Salt Solution‘s track ‘Your Country Needs You‘ is mashed with a documentary on the volcanoes of the Hawaiian islands
Footage of the frozen Arctic wastes and the Northern lights provide suitable imagery for Salt Solution‘s track ‘Arctic Ostrich‘
Kids tell the Christmas story … as they remember it! with original footage from 2004 and supplementary footage from the same kids four years later in 2008
