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Pomeranian Apogee. Apomogee! I’ll shut up now.
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Freelance video editor. Once hosted a radio show about cinema, but now mainly take photos using prisms or pinholes. Imagine a lazy Tom Swift.
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Pomeranian Apogee. Apomogee! I’ll shut up now.
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“Would you say I have plethora of Pomeranians?”
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All the Essex outbuildings have a giant French Horn. It’s just our thing.
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Yesterday afternoon’s pottering about bike ride sounds quite thrilling when broken down into a text to Bridget. When written down it becomes apparent how many different strata of history, in just a tiny patch of Essex, even a simple journey passes through.
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Today’s abandoned outbuilding exploration. Last month’s tetanus jab has made this poking about a more carefree experience.
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One day she will pounce, snatch and devour, and that will be the end of cheap flights from Europe into Stansted.
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It may well have been. Certainly similar. Thank you. New dog facts are always welcome.
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I appreciate how this sign is so small it seems to be whispering to me as I cycle past. “Beware Farm Vehicles” it coos into my ear like a love poem. “Sweetest love, I do not goe, For wearinesse of thee Nor in hope the world can show Beware Farm Vehicles”
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I remember reading that when she was on the Booker panel she led a singalong Happy Birthday to Alan Garner. So I’ll always have a soft spot for her because of that (even if Alan Garner hated it, it was a kind gesture)
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Watching Idles. I suspect every band member is a different Tom Hardy performance.
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Stepped aside for a giant of a dog, lumbering down a path with the stop-motion of age. Rather than walk past he just stopped at my legs and rested against them. I braced myself: an oil rig against a storm that wanted its ears scratched. His owner sighed fondly. “Ahhh”, he’s having a lean”
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@raynewman.bsky.social regarding the style of Yellow Submarine, that psychedelic flow is evident in much of George Dunning’s other work pre and post his directing The Beatles. I saw Damon the Mower in film school in the mid-90’s and it’s been lodged in my brain since.
youtu.be/PV8TpQ8ZjKk?...
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Dracula appearing before Mina Harker in the Hammer film / me coming out of the bathroom to find Rula waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs.
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It’s took me a few minutes, loitering around the corner, to pluck up the courage. But nobody who plays the saxophone can be a bad person, I told myself.
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Evening cycle. On a narrow lane a car was parked; A man using the quiet spot, no house for a mile or so, to practise saxophone. The big city shine of the bell against the green riot of bracken. Shot an Instagram video of him playing, but out of sight, just the sound mysteriously round a corner
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What a tremendous cascade of a sentence by Joan Aiken. Like opening a high cupboard and having a stack of objects tumble out, only to see them miraculously stack themselves neatly - egg/cake/soap/pocket/rain/lather/jaw/knife/satchel/shave/lid/coffee/tin/mirror. A Gene Krupa rhythm to it.
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Great words in this story. So many vowels; The ship was carrying a cargo of vowels into England: The Baltic Arrow is currently in the River Nene. ..to the Port of Wisbech with timber in packs. under the flag of St Kitts and Nevis to the Port of Wisbech. Tugs Assistance will have to be employed
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Everybody makes (perfectly fine) jokes, but I’m excited by the strangeness of it. The beautifully cinematic clash of scale.
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This is quite a thrilling sight; I had no idea ships of this size still sailed so deep into the fens. A little like the whale in the Thames all those years ago, a deep sea object where it shouldn’t be.
A local films maker should quickly use it as a background.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Rula listening to me talk about today’s work problems.
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The bit of werewolf that never turns back.
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He does have the right sort of jazz hands melancholy for lycanthropy.
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It’s like I live and work in one of those fancy Bavarian market square clocks, only instead of mechanised folklore rolling out to bang a drum on the hour, I’ve next door’s excitable puppy running around to say “hellllo. It’s 2 o’clock. Isn’t 2 o’clock amazing! Best hour ever!”
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On the narrow path between Bartlow’s round towered church and its Roman period burial mounds there’s a metal fence with a rusted hole in it, and through that rusted hole you can see the fancy meadow garden of a stately home. Various focal lengths.
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One listen - found myself humming it all through making my cheese on toast late dinner. :)
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I bet Cecil Beaton never came away from a photography session with spiders in his hair.
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Within the eight trunks. Climbed into the wolf tree at Bartlow Burial Mounds and took a photo with my makeshift fish-eye lens
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I’ve been a bit of a lost soul since stepping down from the film show I used to host, but I now feel my prospects lie in ‘running a small press in the corner of an orchard I also maintain’ - I don’t see how this endeavour can fail; I’d make millions.
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The thrill when a new interest collides with another, older, interest. Reading (and falling in love with) the Small Presses of 1920’s Paris; Nancy Cunard meets… Len Lye, colliding the worlds of small presses with GPO films of the 1930/40’s! It’s like when Kate Bush sang about meeting Michael Powell
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Sadly already sold, but much taken with these rare statues of Tippi Hedren being attacked by birds while Suzanne Pleshette, annoyed she’s stolen Rod Taylor from her, watches on.
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Gloria and the laying on of hands.
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Platform Shoegaze
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Eno turned over the Oblique Strategy card. “Shoegaze Disco” he announced to the band.
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Life is early multiplane animation this morning, with the laundry, coffee pot, cat, and book all on different levels of the camera rostrum. Only Rula the cat is animated; the rest is watercolour paintings on cell.
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Oh, of course it is. I was - genuinely - getting myself visually confused with Thelma Ritter’s character in Rear Window.
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As with Rosemary’s Baby, that wonderful trick of having the composition force the viewer to crane their neck into the picture/film to try and glimpse what is happening. Slightly startling how similar the layers of lights are here.
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It is one of three local small nature reserves, the other two still well maintained, so I will do some investigation in that direction. This orchard apparently used to supply the town’s Saturday market with apple juice, but I asked the stall owner and she said that trade stopped a few years ago.
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I am adding a scythe to my bike paraphernalia, cycling the 6 miles like Death takes a Holiday.
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Visited Ellis Green, a 1 acre green space “with no owner, set aside as an orchard of rare apples”. The website mentions wassailing in winter, beehives, and apple juice for the local market. But the gate is broken, the beehive splinters, and the 15 apple trees lost in nettles. A forgotten orchard.
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The Lovecraftian abyss that is a photo library showing that I took 15 minutes worth of accidental photos of the inside of my left trouser pocket.
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He’s distractingly over the top in Jonathan Miller’s Alice in Wonderland, and the DVD commentary suggests it’s because he didn’t want to be upstaged by what Peter Cook. But there’s also a sense of sadness in his need to be noticed; a naturally funny man who rarely trusted his ability to be funny?
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Planning a bike ride when the much feared marmalade kaiju stomped all over Essex in a bid for attention.
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The miracle of symbiotic relationships in nature.
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Bridget is visiting me this weekend, and I’ve arranged a line of shrubs she will have to struck her head into, one after another, until I’ve proved the photo is of her.
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Find somebody who looks at you the way Bridget looks inside this shrub. (this would be funnier on the other place, where more people know this particular Bridget is my partner)
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The way out of the wood. Or I could turn around and set up camp among the trees. I’ve a third a bar of chocolate, a British Museum tote bag, and a light Seasalt scarf - more than enough to start a new life.
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Day #347 of trying to teach them the mirror routine from Duck Soup. We’re getting there.
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“This other Eden…” A wonderfully confused array of symbols at last night’s D-Day ceremony - the beacon ablaze in the middle of our medieval turf maze, the choir undercut by the hiss of the gas canister feeding the fire. The bored guard with his pagan shadow. The fence within a fence safety measures
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Bagpipes on the common behind my house. Watched from a distance as the town dignities gathered at our ancient turf maze. No speeches, only the piper. A sparse crowd to start with, but people were drawn in by the piper; Lowry figures: dog walkers, curious teens, young families - very moved by that.
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Now reading about typography, and amazed how Baskerville’s typesetting and printing techniques shook up books - it made the space of the page part of the work. It was punk rock, William Morris kicking out Victorian culture, Dogme 95, Miles Davis’ use of silence, but in 18th century book making.
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