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Slide Away.


It was about forty minutes in to scouring YouTube for mouthwash adverts and taking screen grabs of them that I realised I don’t have a proper job.

These small things take up time when you’re compiling any slideshow-based stand up. It’s less the case with ‘…and Ephgrave’, which only features eighty slides at the moment (including blank ones), but the last version of mine and Glyn's show ‘Doggett & Ephgrave Project Stuff’ had 360 in it. You wouldn’t know when you watched it, as the mix of video clips, photographs, text and transitions disguise this, but it takes forever when you're piecing it together.

I added a few more slides into my solo show today to make it more cohesive. Up until now, a reasonable chunk of the material didn’t use them. I wanted to bridge the gap, without putting pictures in for the sake of it. They’re good for clarity. While mine and Glyn’s Star Trek Porn Letter would work without the images of cast members in place of the sexual content, it gives the material an extra kick. It adds impact. Even more so with our stuff on the Beard Board forum or the ‘art’ of Manualism. It’s good to zoom in on the finite detail. It suits our anal nature.

(None of these references make any sense if you haven’t seen our act.)

I hope these new additions will improve it. I need to run them in. I should do this now, rather than just talking about it. So...off I trot.
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