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on Thursday @ 2:52 PM

Major break in posting there. And there may be another couple of weeks gap cos I'm going to the South of France (and Italy maybe too now) with the Cameron sisters. I doubt I'll have much internet, if any.

The only thing I've been doing lately is working, shooting photos and going out too much. If you look on the left you will see that I have been adding pictures to my flickr account quite a bit.

I've been looking forward to going away in the sun and taking tons of pictures and chilling out and eating nice food. One problem I've been pondering over the past few days is which cameras to take. I have lots now and most are cheap but a couple aren't. I am thinking I should maybe just take all film cameras and shoot lots of rolls of 35mm and medium format. This has its pros and cons though. I just don't want to lose my DSLR and all the bits that go with it..

I have loads of stuff to do (like packing) before I go away and I'm working today and tomorrow and then I go on Saturday morning.

See you all in a couple of weeks.

The Congressman has never been to rehab. They don't serve whisky at rehab.

on Wednesday @ 1:44 PM

This video represents the hand-in cut that I made of Support. After the shopping list of problems from the project's start, I think it worked out okay. There are niggles (the end, for one) but it could have been worse. Everyone working on the film on the day did a fine job. I could have done without editing it myself.

The first cut was 12minutes, 2 days later it was under 4.

Yesterday was a weird day. Lots of house tidying, lots of photoshoot, a trip to the hospital, a trip to the pub (still hadn't eaten yet..) and finished off with a Dominos whilst watching The Cable Guy at about midnight.

You Can't Handle the Truth

on Sunday @ 2:07 PM

The worst is over! I have been (mildly) celebrating my hand-in completion with a weekend of football, working and BBQ-ing.

I had to work a couple of nights during the week which really put the stress on editing and, to make matters worse, those nights were the sunniest, nicest nights Edinburgh has seen this year. They were probably our whole summer. So me and Andy were working and got all hyped up about doing a BBQ.

The return to normal Scottish weather and rain did not stop us. We went all out and bought a new barbeque and a lot of food. We got back to mine just as the sky started spitting and we assembled our shiny new food cooking device with little trouble. Getting the fire going was a different matter. We got over-excited and used up the firelighters in a way that is not ideal. If we looked at the box, we probably would have seen a warning which told us not to light it the way we did.

We got a lot of flames, but no burning coals.

Anyway Mikey came round with Lisa and he got the fire going scout-style. He actually foraged. He cooked everything as well and it was so good. It looked so good, smelled so good and tasted so good. Heck, it sounded and felt good too.

Back to shooting photos this week.

Why won't anybody go snorkeling with me?

on Monday @ 7:14 PM

Yesterday was the day I shot my documentary. It's sortof about football fans but sortof not. It's like that poster for (brilliant) defunct tv-show Sports Night; "It's about sorts, the same way Charlie's Angels was about law enforcement". I have had to explain the premise more times than I would have liked and many of these occurred mid-filming when drunk fans took it upon themselves to quiz me on what the hell me and my crew were doing invading their support.

Anyway I'm glad the shoot is over but it does mean I have a solid 5 days of editing the material (of which there is a lot). My year hand-in date is this Friday, 9th May. After that it's back to working as much as I can handle and photoshoots. I'm really looking forward to the photoshoots, I don't get bored of them at all and I plan them a little and the rest I have to just roll with and be creative on the day. It's just the right amount of pressure to be exciting.

I've been shooting rolls of film and digital in equal amounts. Mostly been checking the quality of expire rolls that I have managed to get my hands on.

It's so hot right now. In nine weeks I will be in Frejus with Bauer and Finge and Shoes.

UPDATE: In the space of one day I have been subject to five seperate references to William Shatner. I guess that pop-fact is right; people don't buy the goods unless they have seen the advert seven times. I am desperate to watch old Star Trek episodes (although coming across his great cameo in Airplane II was a highly enjoyable way to take a break from editing today).

He is no driver, he is the undertaker.

on Tuesday @ 10:11 PM

I thought the best thing to combat the fact I've been avoiding this blog like Slimer avoids the Ghost Trap was to start another - spin-off - blog. Which I am in the process of doing.

To be honest, it's just about the photos I'm doing right now. I wish I could say that they are all I've been focusing on recently, but film shoot troubles and work and everything else is mounting up. My film shoot date is coming up real fast. I think the saying from the bible or something goes 'Anything that can go wrong on a film shoot, will go wrong'.

The only thing I'm really updating at the moment (and only intermittently) is my flickr page.

I don't want to do massive catch-up or anything but if you watch one film today, make it Eastern Promises. I tried to get Becky to watch it before and she wasn't interested, but thanks to the lovely people at Love Film, she had little choice. She now (honest to god) insists that it is the best film ever/better than the Godfather. Although she did freak out at the throat-slitting scenes:

"Ewww, (covers eyes/face) you didn't tell me it was going to be like THIS!"

"I said it was a Cronenberg film.."

"What does that MEAN?"

[I would post a photo or two but I can't be bothered]