As the war in Afghanistan enters its final chapter, Sean Smith's brutal, uncompromising film from the Helmand frontline shows the horrific chaos of a stalemate that is taking its toll in blood
When the mighty snows came to Kent (18th December 2009) I posted a couple of videos to YouTube showing what it looked like at Chart Sutton near Maidstone. One of them was spotted by the Guardian newspaper's Adam Gabbatt who linked to it on the newspaper's live snow blog. I think he liked the way an 11 year old measured 23cm of snowfall while eating a snowball! After the Guardian linked to the video, we had more than a thousand views within a couple of hours! It constantly amazes me how different media are converging. Here's a newspaper with a live online news blog quoting the latest videos on YouTube and now I'm blogging about the newspaper news blog. "The distinctions between broadcasting and printing are disappearing. There is no longer a single public sphere".. now where have I read that before! The Guardian's snow blog here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2009/dec/18/snow-weather-travel-chaos and our two original snow videos here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDwngdZbZA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33YUdCeOtMk Graham Majin is Head of Video Marketing and Video Production at Kent digital agency www.kershmedia.co.uk and www.kwikvid.com
