• The Oblivion Three (2022)

    With Mervyn Peake’s drawings laying down the gauntlet for The Kick-About 57, I decided to attempt some character drawings of my own, as inspired by the trio of villains in my own work of fantastic fiction, Chimera. I don’t really draw, or identify as someone who does, but this bloody Kick-About business keeps prompting me to make…

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  • The Kick-About #57 ‘Mervyn Peake’

    From the percussive, delineated sound-shapes of a Sandy Nelson drum solo, our muse for our previous Kick-About, we are this week riffing on the appreciably softer tones of the drawings by Mervyn Peake, and likewise the richness of his imaginary worlds and all their eccentric inhabitants.

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  • For Drummers Only #7 (2022)

    A last hurrah courtesy of The Kick-About No.56 and Sandy Nelson’s percussive powers. My unrequited print and textile brain insists I do something with some of these images (“To the loom with you at once!”), but I lack the skills, stuff and wherewithal to act on these impulses!

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  • For Drummers Only #6 (2022)

    A penultimate set of percussion-derived images for The Kick-About No.56.

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  • Throwback Friday #113 New York, Radio City (2014)

    Raiding another of those newly uncovered photographs from our 2014 trip to New York.

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  • For Drummers Only #5 (2022)

    A further batch of images produced for The Kick-About No.56, with drums and drumming as their muse.

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  • For Drummers Only #4 (2022)

    More Kick-About No.56-inspired images, seeking to visualise the percussive effects of a Sandy Nelson drum-solo. By this point in the process, I was getting some nice effects and was enjoying all the mid 20th-century vibes.

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  • For Drummers Only #3 (2022)

    A third set of images produced in response to The Kick-About No.56, and specifically this drum solo by Sandy Nelson. I was trying to create a sense of cymbals being struck and percussive vibrations and much fun was had in my pursuit for the best expression of that idea.

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  • Throwback Friday #112 New York, Ferry View 2014

    There’ll be no prizes for originality, but this photograph was taken from the Staten Island ferry on a nicely murky late December day back in 2014.

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  • For Drummers Only #2 (2022)

    With Sandy Nelson’s 1962 12 minute drum solo as a starting point for our latest Kick-About, I wanted to respond to the divine bash and crash of it with moving images. I had a technique in mind and sense of what I wanted, but couldn’t achieve it, and not for want of trying. That said,…

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