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Return To The Scrying Mirror (2021)
In June 2020, on a trip into the woods, we came across a still, stagnant body of water, blackly sinister under the canopy of trees. We returned to the woods last week, and the strangely… Read more
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‘Quite Normal’ @ The Ramsgate International Film & Television Festival 2021
Quite Normal was the short film I made back in July 2020 for the Kick-About #5, in response to Alice Neel’s 1932 painting, Symbols. The film was made very directly and simply, and without any… Read more
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Throwback Friday #47 The Old Wives Had It Wrong (2003)
I’ve featured a few songs on here, songs accompanied by handy box chord diagrams, having had the discipline to commit their melodies and chords to paper, as well as to memory. Not so with this… Read more
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Incertae sedis (2021)
The latest Kick-About, inspired by Ole Worm’s cabinet of curiosities, saw me heading up to my attic to retrieve a heavy wooden box – not opened in years – from beneath a collection of other… Read more
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The Kick-About #23 ‘Museum Wormianum’
Surely it was curiosity that drove Eugen von Ransonnet-Villez, the subject of our last Kick-About, to construct a submersible so he could paint what he found beneath the waves. Ole Worm, Danish physician, natural historian… Read more
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Throwback Friday #46 Men-In-Motion (2001)
Okay, so this one is going to take a bit of explaining. How was it, back in 2001, I ended up choreographing and compering a male strip show? How was it the participants in the… Read more
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Fierce Grinding Discords Part 2
The good news is, most universities are packing impressive sound devices now, installed and finely calibrated in the service of retention and the closing of attainment gaps, and if not quite that, then grimly determined… Read more
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Fierce Grinding Discords Part 1
All these years later, I’m still haunted by a 1981 episode of the television series, Tales Of The Unexpected. Entitled The Sound Machine, and adapted from a Roald Dahl short story, the episode introduces us… Read more
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The Garden in ‘The Garden’
There’s no way around this. I’m showing off a bit about our narrow, over-stuffed strip of garden at the back of our old narrow end-of-terrace house in Whitstable. With words by Francine Raymond and photographs… Read more
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Rock Pool #3 (2021)
A final set of Eugen von Ransonnet-Villez-inspired photographs produced in response to the Kick-About 22. Read more
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