August 2012
3 posts
May 2012
2 posts
September 2011
2 posts
WatchOur local heron, fishing. @southsidehap I can’t believe I got this close to him (about 3m).
August 2011
23 posts
WatchOh, and I blame @sophontrack and @artistsmakers for putting me up to recording myself playing. Here’s a clip for #riotcleanup - they’re the pair that got the snowball rolling. Sophie (@sophontrack) is a freelance copywriter and travel writer who came up with the perfectly crafted hashtag that covered the globe, and Dan is the social artist who created an amazing temporary installation artwork...
WatchYesterday I met in London with @iateyourmic, a recording engineer who I met via twitter. I discovered that Metropolis, the studio he’s been working in, has a Fazioli piano. I love Fazioli pianos. They feel like they’re just made for the way I play. This one, it turns out, is a piano that was given to the studio by Freddie Mercury. It’s a lovely piano, and an amazing room to play...
I love piano tuning. Somehow it’s a way I...
A little clipping from our recording session...
WatchBrendan, Tristan and I are really bored of the holidays, so we make a stop motion football video. Yes. It’s the obvious thing to do…
WANTED: global creative collaborators
I just remembered another project, which is to have 40 guest / collaborative posts on my blog. Interested?
I also just remembered a collaborative experiment I did in 8th grade while at the International School in Berne… Mr Sheppard, the crazy-haired science teacher, let us experiment with mixing hydrogen & oxygen in a massive double bin-bag in the playground, rigging a wire-wool and...
WatchVideo portrait in the rain.
Ave Maria in the rain, by loch katrine. Walking...
Turning forty
Only four weeks to go till I’m forty. It’s a really weird feeling. Doesn’t feel like I should be this old. I mean, doesn’t seem that long ago that I was a teenager, wondering where my life would lead me.
Now I’m almost forty, still wondering.
The last couple of years have been hard. My business has collapsed, mostly because I ran out of energy for battling with...
Herons
I’ve been thinking about herons a lot recently; haven’t seen one for ages.
Herons are my favourite bird. They have been since I was 11, and we moved to Switzerland. For a while, I attended the local secondary school in the Jura mountains. I didn’t really speak any French when we arrived, and struggled to make any connection with people. Every morning on the way to school I was greeted with...
I'm a pyromaniac.
@dougald is tempting me to come to his uncivilisation weekend; he’s looking for bonfire hosts!
I grew up lighting fires. Big bonfires for my granny, burning her rubbish. They were smelly ones. We (the gaggle of cousins who met at garnny’s fatm) had Halloween fires for baked potatoes, fires that got out of control and burned the barn down (Trevor started it - but we all had a go with...
I wonder if I can write.
I’ve been dithering about writing a blog for ages. I really want a place where I can interact with people, share my latest ideas, help other people to do cool stuff. I’ve been very focused on the fact that I hate writing. So instead of “writing”, which is really formal and difficult stuff to do, I’m just going to put some brain-dumps here. Stream of consciousness stuff. I can do that. If it...
August 2009
1 post
