"Lulu Gay" by Wallace Stevens from OTHNIEL SMITH on Vimeo.

http://blakeson.blogspot.co.uk

The mash-up experiment continues.

New short film - based on the sonnet "To Fanny" by John Keats.

Less than ninety seconds long.

(Why are no girls named Fanny these days?)

https://vimeo.com/52783573

Made some very short trailers for my Kindle (or Kindle app) downloads; once again raiding the Prelinger Archive for material. An invaluable source of public domain video, audio, texts etc.

A page of short home-made dramas on video. 

http://pinterest.com/othy1/short-films-no-budget/

New 2-minute mash-up film - based on one of Beethoven's settings of Welsh folk songs: "Farewell, Farewell, Thou Noisy Town"...

http://youtu.be/bdxcY7naPbA

Time-limited offer on a new novella:

"Sons of Nervous Lovers"

Download, read, review...

Free to download, once more, from Amazon's Kindle store.

It's a time-limited offer, people!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B007K9YU2I

 New short film:

Monday or Tuesday

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A note about my latest adventure in e-book-land. A long story (in the form of a radio drama) entitled "Miss Hanley's Letter" - available to download free of charge (for the next day or so) from the Amazon Kindle store, for those with Kindles or the Kindle app on their iPads, smartphones, etc.

Miss Hanley's Letter

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Short film, shot in Cardiff - "The Key", starring Dave Wong.

Also - still available: "Yer Blues."

My latest short film - a Prelinger mash-up based on the John Keats poem "Fill For Me A Brimming Bowl".

Selling points:

a) It's less than two minutes long.

b) It features a woman in her underwear.

In other news - still available for download:

"Yer…

Firstly, apologies for raising this in a theatre-based forum.

(Although, if all goes according to plan, I’ll have a play on in Wales next year, but that’s not important right now.)

This is about “Yer Blues”, a novel which I wrote and self-published a few years ago.

“Yer Blues” is now available as an e-book in Amazon’s…

Click this link for a pictorial reminder of the 1998 production of my play "Giant Steps", provided by designer Carolyn Willitts.

Ah, happy days.

(The playtext was published by Parthian in "New Welsh Drama 2".)

Posting a link to my (very short) Shakespeare film - simply because it amuses me to do so.

I submitted a short script to the BBC Writersroom competition which asked for Rapid Response pieces inspired by the phone-hacking scandal. It was deemed to be one of the top 3, and is now available to read if you follow the link. Enjoy!

My sporadic no-budget film series continues with "King Horse", starring father and daughter combo, Dave and Jessica Wong.

My new short film, shot (on, frankly, a limited budget) in Roath Park, Cardiff.

I've created a new blog page for my novel "Yer Blues" (an ideal Christmas present, etc), including synopsis, links, and an endorsement from a top Welsh playwright:- http://yerblues-novel.blogspot.com

The Way Of It

A cycle of poems by R.S. Thomas (1913-2000). Born from the realisation, gained whilst idly flicking through a book of his collected verse some…

"The Way Of It" - Michael Kelligan performs a sequence of poems by R.S. Thomas, selected by Othniel Smith. Part of The Dylan Thomas Festival: "A Home From Home For The Thomases". Monday 1st November, 2010, 7.30 p.m., The Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAhY5t4Wz20