11 Aug 2013

Bloons

Bloons

Three of my photos from the Balloon Fiesta this weekend. It’s been good. Though I was too knackered to get up for the mass ascent this morning, which was a shame, as it looked like nice blue skies…

16 Mar 2013

AD9: Snapping A Door

AD9: Snapping A Door

For this week’s artist date, I found a gorgeous old door and spent an hour getting to know it better through photography.

19 Feb 2013

Making a thing that goes “Bong!”

I’ve been meditating for a while. For decades, in fact, on and off. I normally use a meditation timer provided by a plug-in to the Mac app pzizz, whose primary function is actually getting you off to sleep, or power napping. But pzizz doesn’t seem to be supported any more, and I wanted something a […]

19 Feb 2013

AD6: Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Playing catchup: my artist date from last week was a quick jaunt to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, which I realised was leaving Bristol on Sunday. I enjoy the exhibition. As with past years, though, I walked past the signs at Bristol’s City Museum quite a few times, thinking, “Oh, it’s on for […]

9 Feb 2013

Making a Dragon

I’ve had a Walter Ruffler Paper Machines kit of a Chinese dragon waiting for me to get around to building it for a very long time. More than a year, in fact, as it was a birthday pressie last year. I finally got around to it. I also used it as the first proper test of […]