I joined the local camera club, around the corner from my house, about six or seven months ago. I went along to a studio accreditation session to learn the ropes and went to a lighting master class. Despite my best intentions it stalled there. My excuses were a) not having a suitable IR trigger to [...]
It’s been a long time coming. Sometime in the last couple of days I picked up a new fifty pence coin. If I knew where I’d go back and kiss the shop assistant. I now present the completed UK coin set blu-tac’d to my desk:
It seems that it is the cumulative effect of small things [...]
From 1996 though until 1998 I attended Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge. During that time I studied for five A-levels, took 4 A-levels, learnt how to party, partied, and plotted a legendary prank.
We were inspired by some Cambridge engineering students who had, the story went, placed a car on top of a university [...]
darkness envelops me
through the murkiness i see the tomb shrinking
can feel the rain growing heavy
a thunderstorm rumbling in the distance
the volcano threatens with fore tremors of doom
i try to shout, i try to tell
it seems my news is unwanted
others despair and find their shelter on the ground
we urgently need food and fire
yet our number dwindles
the [...]
Clearly this is pretty high budget - but it’s also utterly incredible and I’d love to make stuff like this. Honestly brilliant. Oh and the song is also lovely.