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  • So there are three tomatoes walking down the street…

    The Chapel at Butlins Minehead on a cold December day
    surprisingly I have actually completed a couple of pieces of artwork in the past couple of weeks. Sadly the photos I took didn’t come out too well so I’ll have to take them again.

    Until then I’ll just upload a couple of pics from the second fish-eye film I took, here, here and here. Came out okay, a little dark at times.

    I also had a go at constructing my own matchbox pinhole camera from various items found around the home, and a couple of things from poundland, with the very excellent guide on matchboxpinhole.com. Sadly though when I picked up the photos I only received a roll of developed film back and no printed images. Annoyingly, it was my own fault, I wasn’t winding on the film enough and most of the photos are overlapped. I remember when I was younger photo labs used to just process films like that, giving people ‘spooky’ photos to send in to the ghost section of ‘Take-a-Break’. But apparently its all done by computer now and the computer can’t cope with out gaps in the film. Hooray for progress.

    So I’ll have another go at that. Meanwhile my Tomatos are growing well…
    Week 1
    Grow in the bag tomatos, week one.
    Week 2
    Grow in the bag tomatos, week two.
    Week 3
    Grow in the bag tomatos, week three.
    Week 4
    Grow in the bag tomatos, week four.
    I’m starting to think that dispite how the packet reads I am going to have to re-pot them as this just isn’t going to work…

  • Comming up…

    a couple of musical events I’m looking forward to…

    This years Screamin’ Festival later in the month. Seems to be costing a fair bit more this year, mostly down to the Euro exchange rate I guess…

    2009 Screamin Festival Poster

    Followed by the Supersonic Festival from Capsule in July, 24th, 25th and 26th;

    2009 Supersonic Festival Poster

    Really must sort out some decent accomodation for that this year…

  • St Georges Day

    I could tell by all the Chinese polyester flags on the BBC Radio cars parked in Stratford-upon-Avon this morning (Shakespeare’s birthday too today.)

    It reminded me of a conversation from last week with a guy who sold me a piece of signage from a flea market. He said I was definitely buying an antique as it was made in Taiwan and wasn’t any of this modern Chinese rubbish…

  • Stalking Alan Caddick?

    this sight did cheer me up on the way to hospital visiting tonight.

  • Read the signs…

    I got quite excited last week* when I saw a poster on a lamppost. This wasn’t because I’ve been wanting to find out what the ‘thebestof…‘ is in my town, nor was I looking to Earn 20k a year working from home or even because its Adam Schrodenrocks birthday [He’s started to look a tad washed out. Mind, he’s been ’21 Today’ for over a week now, I guess that many 21st Birthdays would wear anyone out] anyway, Happy birthday Ad.

    No, the reason was seeing this ‘fly-sign’ for the Band ‘High Voltage’ who we’re playing locally. Unfortunately when I got back to the office and did some googling I found out the band I was thinking of was Heavy Load.
    Well, its all electrical to me…

    I saw the Heavy Load film a couple of weeks ago as a part of the occasionally excellent BBC Storyville series of documentaries. I only mention it here as I notice its one of the films playing at the Borderlines Film Festival in the Hereford region. I’m pretty sure its on some kind of limited general release too.

    I don’t actually know if its the same film as the Storyville doc or a new one entirely, it has a running time of about half hour longer than I remember, but then we were watching post pub, so my judgment of time and space may have been corrupted a little. The documentary I saw was very enjoyable and uplifting, its a hard film to sum up, for me clearly as I’ve been meaning to for two weeks, its basically a ‘typical’ band documentary about a very untypical band who encounter all the typical stages of a band[?]. Very enjoyable, hearwarming and funny. I’d highly recommend it. Nice to see Wreckless Eric in there too.
    I may edit this later as that doesn’t really cover everything but at least it gets those links out there…

    More details on the band and film can be found at the Heavy Load website.

    *actually about three weeks ago which is the time its taken me to get around to finishing this post.