Portraits of Drinkers

A few portraits of drinkers and smokers outside the Nottingham Contemporary last week.

Five Lamps End of Year Show

Five Lamps Films End of Year Show

Our film 'The Hangover' has been picked for the end of year highlights screening at Quad. Chuffed!

Alright the Captain + Cheap Jazz European Tour

I've just got back from an awesome tour of europe with a couple of top bands. I was lucky enough to get a free ride acting as 'tour documentarian'. I have piles of tapes, memory cards and mini disks to trawl through before any footage will be available to watch but until then you can read the tour diary here on the Circuit Sweet music blog.

Grafitti by Todd aka Senile Edge @ Zoro, Leipzig

Pennyfest featured in Hatch'd Magazine

Our film about Pennyfest (a local festival to raise money for Penny's fund) has been featured in Derby Culture Magazine 'Hatch'd'. (The article can be read here.) Hatch'd were responsible for putting on the event. Check out Hatch'd Magazine's website for all things creative throughout Derbyshire.

www.hatchdmagazine.co.uk

Pennyfest

Pennyfest is a local festival in Derby set up to raise money for Penny's Fund. We made this little film to help raise awareness of Penny's situation and because the sense of community spirit overwhelmed us. It was the hottest day of the year and an amazing success.

For more information or to donate to Penny's Fund please visit Facebook/Penny's Fund.

Tom Stead - Hairy Producer

Alix Sinclair

A portrait of Alix Sinclair the Hairy Poet at J. T. Soar Recording and Rehearsal Studios in Snienton. This picture was taken during the recording of the voice over for the short film "The Letter".

Olde Trip to Jerusalem

This is the first picture i have printed in my home darkroom. It is the Olde Trip to Jerusalem in Nottingham. The oldest Inn in England. It is also the first picture i took on the Mamiya RB67.

The Letter - Short Film

A contemporary noir study of obsession and isolation. I finally finished editing 'the letter'. It's gonna be shown as part of 5lamps film night at Derby Quad this Tue (30th Aug) so if your going, don't watch it yet and spoil the suprise.

Brussels Musical Instrument museum (MIM)

The Brussels Musical Instrument museum (MIM) is full of weird and wonderful musical instruments from all over the world. We spent hours in there looking at all the surreal creations. They give you a set of headphones when you go in so that you can hear examples of how each instrument sounds as you pass them. It was difficult getting good pictures with everything being behind glass cabinets but i saw some truely mental looking things. Highly recommended.

Timelapse Derby 2011

Local film makers and photographers this is a call to arms!

A massive collaborative timelapse project is taking place in Derby on aug 13th. The idea is to cover 24hrs in the city. All submissions are welcome. For more details and specification parameters click on the link....

http://www.irrelevantdigital.com/timelapsederby-11-is-here

Or join the groups......

Vimeo/TimelapseDerby

Facebook/TimelapseDerby

Club de Bicyclette

After four years working at South East Derbyshire College they are closing our site down and making me redundant. We made a film to celebrate the building and all the great people i have worked with over the years.

Street Photography

A few shots from Nottingham Town centre. Getting in peoples faces is hard, i don't have the courage yet to photograph the people i really want. The ones you shouldn't point a camera at. I might start telling people i work for LeftLion so i can get their picture. At least then i seem to have a purpose.

Shooting "The Letter"

We just shot our first short under the name "Pinhole Productions". This consists of myself and Tom Stead acting as producer and storyboard artist. After the success of The Hangover i thought it was about time i put some effort in and actually planned a film. It was a great day and everyone involved was awesome. We had a student helping out called \Andrew who brought us a jib and ended up being an invaluable asset to the shoot. Also the Femme Fatale Jo, turned up mid day to shoot a quick cameo and wound up staying all night and brought the Rum and Sambuca for a nice treat afterwards. The film is currently in post but here are a few sneak previews and photo's from the day.

Cylindrical Pinhole Camera 2

Mountain Biking at Sherwood Pines

Me and Ad went Mountain Biking in Sherwood Pines. It was a good day despite putting too much pressure in my car tyres on the way there and nearly sliding off the road and into the local obituary. We got cheap bike hire from the young lad at the counter who mistook the tenner i gave him for a twenty.

Cylindrical Pinhole Camera

Sometimes at work i am required to teach a class and todays lesson was Pinhole photography. These are the images from the cylindrical pinhole i made. I will spend a bit more time with it soon as i quite like these results.

The Smears Recording Session & Video Shoot

I'm not from London video shoot for the smears. The video can be viewed here.