Autumn is swinging into gear and the coronavirus is still at large. New restrictions in the UK and the weather is getting noticeably darker and wetter. Doom and gloom ahead. My parents brought sunshine into their lives with Bowie, their new puppy. They hoped to get a dog ten years […]
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It is horrible to think that the summer is coming to an end already. Lockdown means that it does not feel as if I have had a holiday at all, especially as we have had no chance to go anywhere in the last six months. I have taken a few […]
Lockdown has lifted in some ways but things are still strange; face masks in shops, lots of social distancing in place. It seems like we won’t travel anywhere this year, and so it is a summer at home. We are lucky to live by the sea and so we have […]
With lockdown slowly easing, it appears the uncertainty will continue for some time. From a work perspective, I have continued throughout the lockdown but the practice of teaching is very different. It remains to be seen how September will be. The filmmaking has been slowed for sure. I saw a […]
Lockdown continues. Following on from Qualia, I decided to produce a project quickly at home. The end result was a short film and accompanying soundtrack called Light Symphony. Time seems quite abstract in lockdown. Days go by at different speeds. In some ways I feel very productive, having completed projects, […]
April has been a continuation of the coronavirus lockdown. I took the opportunity to finish some music and get it posted up online. Qualia can be found here, and most of my music can now be found on Spotify, Youtube and other outlets. I also got around to redesigning this […]
What a month. Covid-19, a coronavirus, has locked down all but key workers around much of the planet. Daily news declares more and more dead, and it will be some time before a possible improvement. Dark days. I had an opportunity to see a rough draft of the film shoot […]
This was a busy month. It started with shooting a film in a hotel for three days. I produced a feature called Isra for my friend Will Whiting. It was the first time I had been making a film in 6 years. Here’s a picture of him looking like a […]
Each year there are two particular windows of time where I am marking assessments. This year it began on the 2nd January and is ongoing. It is exhausting, and despite going part time, all encompassing. I am looking forward to being the other side of it. The start of the […]