...a plethora of creative nonsense...
Occasional posts on other matters, or those of interest to people less interested in specific creative endeavours
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis is very exciting. I have been asked to serve on a development user group for some software that we use at work, which is meaning some trips to London over the next year. And very kindly the company has agreed to book my return …
Reading Time: 1 minuteAfter many years, I have finally got to see The Damned again, at Leeds Irish Centre. They were reallygood, much better than the revisiting the punk days line up of the early 90s, playing plenty of the more psychedelic material. The Irish centre, lit up …
Reading Time: 2 minutesIts that time of year again, when all the city’s munters and loons congregate on Hyde Park. Hyde Park Unity day began as a community kick back to the 1995 riots in Hyde Park, though over the years it has become bigger and more messy, …
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe’ve just spent 10 days living in a field. Yes, it’s that time of year again. This year’s Northern Green Gathering has been at the lovely Lime Tree Farm, which I have posted about before. More chilled than the environs of Pontefract last year, but …
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn preparation for Northern Green Gathering this year we have been spending a weekend doing some work at Lime Tree Farm near Ripon. This is a truly lovely site, no longer a working farm, but an event space with a number of fields and a …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe’ve just been to see Skindred. They were really, really good. A band to watch.
Reading Time: 3 minutesMore exploration of the new camera. This is getting fun. I have been playing with the slow sync flash setting which uses a longer exposue, to let in the light of the background and a flash to freeze the subject in the forground. I instantly …
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve found a setting on the new camera to take shots of fireworks – a long exposure that saturates the image nicely. Hyde Park is literally like a war-zone at the moment, and this is one of the things that does piss me off about …
