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Throwback Friday #80 Two Bowls (2011)
Taken back in the Summer of 2011, these photographs capture a very particular atmosphere of a favourite place. To create the soundtrack for these images, I’d need to combine the gentle – sometimes raucous -… Read more
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When The Tides Went Down @ the BBC
Jordan Buckner’s short film, When The Tides Went Down, is featuring on the BBC homepage, where it is listed as one of ‘ten amazing artworks inspired by climate change’. Read more
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The Children Of The Night Part 5 (2021)
A final clutch of half-imagined horrors spirited up by The Kick-About No.39, as I do my best Lon Chaney homage, by masquerading as a host of horrible characters! Happy Halloween one and all! Pleasant dreams. Read more
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The Children Of The Night Part 4 (2021)
Boo! Five more ‘self-portraits’ produced for The Kick-About No.39: five more ‘Children of the Night’, five more filmic moments inspired by my enduring affection for the sorts of narratives best experienced in small front rooms… Read more
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The Children Of The Night Part 3 (2021)
Another selection of pages from my super-seasonal ‘Portfolio of Horrors’, produced in response to The Kick-About No.39, with an utterance by Count Dracula at its dark little heart. Read more
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Throwback Friday #79 Sunrays (2013)
Like something from the end of an MGM or RKO Picture, the sun rays over Whitstable one late summer’s evening. Read more
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The Children Of The Night Part 2 (2021)
A second macabre collection of self-portraits from my ‘Portfolio of Horrors’ project, produced in response to The Kick-About No.39. Some of the transformations in this set really make me smile (though that’s not the intended… Read more
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The Children Of The Night Part 1 (2021)
Originally, I was going to write a short story by way of a response to The Kick-About No.39, and I even got as far as committing to a rough outline, but while the spirit was… Read more
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The Kick-About #39 ‘The Children Of The Night’
Our last Kick-About together was kicked-off by the cut-outs of Henri Matisse, and specifically his White Alga on Orange and Red from 1947. Inspired by one of Matisse’s less well-known cut-outs, regular Kick-Abouter, Kerfe Roig,… Read more
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Fundus @ Motus Imago / Best Short Animation Film Competition
A nice surprise this week, an email from the people at the Motus Imago film festival to say Fundus is in competition for ‘Best Animated Short Film’. Congratulations must go to Dee Crisbacher, who brought… Read more
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