Can the Peace One Day event be followed on the net? The Brixton Academy event on September 21 will be webcast by MSN. Peace One Day is aware of committed activities in 57 countries - 22 of them at governmental level. These are all listed on the website along with everything else that's going on. This is how the net community can be harnessed to help. Immediate information and communication, in any language, at any time, anywhere, is the weapon of peace.
Is September 11 being used to restrict the freedom of the net? I always suspected that they'd hang on to our emails and there'd be a slow chipping away of privacy. One of my conspiracy theories is that someone does actually own all the infrastructure for the net, so basically anything you say or do on the net is "owned" somewhere down the line, which means someone then owns our freedom in many respects!
Does the increasing amount of computer generated images (CGI) in movies concern you as an actor? I recently worked on Dog Soldiers where most of the effects were done "in camera" with animatronics, etc. I still think CGI is amazing but everyone's now seen morphing and the other effects. I've done a few movies that have been largely bluescreen and if it's used well, it can be genius. I just think when it's rammed down your throat too much, your eye becomes attuned to it and it doesn't actually live and breath. Maybe it's time to start writing better scripts again.
What computer do you use? I have just got a new Mac G4 laptop. I mainly use it for email, scripts, iMovies and a bit of editing. I've just got Telewest broadband, which is very fast and which I'm really into just now. I don't use chatrooms or messaging, mainly because my qwerty typing sucks!
Favourite gadgets? I would put my iPod at the top of the list. I hate CDs but I love my hip hop and old school reggae, so I've downloaded four days of music on to my iPod. I wish there was superb voice recognition that would actually work, as in Minority Report! I also love my PS2 and Xbox: Halo is the most sublime game ever made! I'm looking forward to it being winter so I have even more excuse to stay inside and play it!
Favourite websites? I'm not really a huge surfer _ I just mess about on it. I did experiment with Grokster as a friend in the music business explained to me how scandalous these things were, but I gave up when loads of warnings came up on screen!
Visit: www.peaceoneday.org
· Sean Pertwee is speaking at Saturday's Peace One Day event at Brixton Academy in London to mark the UN's international day of peace.
