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Lights (After Menken) #1 (2021)
There is something so emancipating about Menken’s experimental short film, Lights – the prompt for The Kick-About #35. It expresses a sort of child-like wonder in the way in which the camera transforms what it… Read more
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The Kick-About #34 ‘Menken’s Lights’
How do you follow a dancing chicken? This sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, I know, but after the previous Kick-About’s riffing on a theme of performing poultry, where next for our fearless… Read more
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Tin Toy #6 (2021)
A final clutch of bird-based photographs, kicked-off by The Kick-About #33, and the method was a little different this time. An animation sequence was created from this previous set of photographs, which was then layered… Read more
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Chimera Book 1 / Chapter 19 – Thingopolis Under Attack!
Good things come to those who wait… and I’m very happy to announce the latest chapter of Chimera Book 1 is here! With only two more instalments to go, Kyp’s adventures in the fantastical realm… Read more
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Tin Toy #5 (2021)
With the addition of an old mirror, I was now able to get my little pecking blue bird ‘ice-skating’ in imperfect circles, producing these barely-there photographs that somehow bring to mind decorative motifs of the… Read more
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Throwback Friday #68 Sidmouth (2000/2001)
Twenty years-or-so ago, one of my oldest friends and I went on a couple of road-trips, stopping-off both times at Sidmouth in Devon. Sidmouth is a very genteel seaside town distinguished by its red sandstone… Read more
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Tin Toy #4 (2021)
A change of light and space for the little wind-up blue bird toy, the camera working harder, the subject of the photograph softening still further, with the highlights rim-lighting the toy’s outline producing whirling white… Read more
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Tin Toy #3 (2021)
Another day, another tin-toy, and this time a rather wonderful clockwork ‘blue bird’ that pecks elegantly at the ground while turning in circles. Inspired by the creative gauntlet set down by The Kick-About #33, I… Read more
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Tin Toy #2 (2021)
So, recap… The Kick-About #33 got me thinking about dancing chickens and long-exposure photography, and in lieu of actual chickens, I sufficed with the clock-work variety. One of the tin-toys I sourced to meet this… Read more
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Throwback Friday #67 Shellness #2 (2009)
Another set of photographs from our 2009 trip to Shellness, which included games of pétanque on the beach’s perfect surface of pale, crushed shells. Read more
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