Well, this has been an interesting year, hasn’t it? Look, it’s a pretty rough time, we all know that, but wallowing isn’t going to help anybody, so try let’s try and be positive, okay? To keep myself somewhat sane, and direct my energies to something constructive, I’ve spent the last several months growing this Notflix…
Introducing Notflix
I said last week that I’ve been working on a project that I was going to share once it was ready, and to my word, here it is. Throwing my hat into the ring of premium internet video streaming platforms, I bring to you, Notflix. You can never have too many novelty parody websites….
A Typical London Argument
The altercation, as transcribed exactly by your correspondent, with neither editing, censor nor commentary, occurred between three persons at the Docklands Light Rail station in Shadwell, a district in the Borough of Tower Hamlets, East London. It is the belief of the writer that what follows is the direct realisation and representational analogue to those most…
Cooking George Orwell’s Long Lost Kidney Stew Recipe
On the day following King George V’s Silver Jubilee celebrations, 6th May 1935, George Orwell took a break from writing A Clergyman’s Daughter to type a letter to his friend and one-time romantic interest, Brenda Salkeld. Among Orwell’s usual topics of discussion (politics, literature, and low-culture) the author outlined what he described as a “wonderful” ox-kidney…
Impressions of poverty – A Dublin Story
If you’ve ever listened to the song Running to Stand Still from U2’s Joshua Tree album you will have heard about the Dublin neighbourhood of Ballymun in the lyric, “I see seven towers but I only see one way out.” Located on the northern periphery of Dublin city, Ballymun was at one time Ireland’s largest and…
Just what the hell have I been doing for the last year
I’m not going to bore anyone with yet another droning story about the mundanity of the latest lockdown season. There will be no mention of Chakras or reconnecting with anyone or anything (including the self). I have spent the last year learning about photoshop and making stupid and juvenile film and television parodies that looks…
It’s all Bean
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Most people after nearly a year of lockdown
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It’s been a long week
I’ve tried the 7 day free trial of this year, but don’t think I’ll be subscribing to the full version.
Streaming now
Hello and seasons greetings to you all. I’ve barely posted this year as I’ve been spending most of my free time working on Notflix. The page appears to be doing rather well (with a daily high of around 17,000 visitors), and the whole thing has been a fantastic learning exercise. I created an Instagram page…
A fresh perspective doesn’t have to be a threat
I can’t believe it’s been over a month since I last posted anything on here. I had promised myself I would be more active with this site, but don’t seem to have been completely honest with myself in that one. The simple truth is that I’ve been flat out with a project that I can’t…
SEO focussed content marketing copy to accompany the brilliantly innovative digital campaign for our dental hygiene product
Our best in class, multiple award-winning SEO marketing consultant advises us that, while this blog post may lack any amount of what might be commonly labelled substance, it will nonetheless propel our organisation’s website into the search ranking big leagues. Forget about digital natives, our internationally recognised, conversion-led content strategy brainiac is nothing short of a pure-bred digital…
On the Isle of Mull
On a tour bus, lumbering along the winding and rain drenched roads across the Isle of Mull, off the west coast of Scotland. He’s taking photos through the condensation covered windows, she’s trying to sleep through her travel sickness. “It makes the landscape look like a rural version of a Turner painting” “Very good,” she…
Like meeting an old friend, in some weird way.
Those of you who have been following this site for a while may remember that while working in Camden Town, I would regularly spot and photograph street art as it appeared on a rather nondescript back street by the name of Stucley Place (AKA Shit Alley). It occurs to me now, that I have never…
Fight for your right to be arty.
It’s been one hell of a while. How’ve you been? I’ve taken a few months away from my career as it was getting to the point at which there was very little going on in my life besides the entire week spent at work and then weekends dedicated to complaining about work. So far, this break…
Street art on Brick Lane in Shoreditch, London
What is the purpose of street art? I found myself occupied by this question while sat on the train to Shoreditch (the unofficial capital of London street art culture) with Herself this Saturday. Over the last several years, I have photographed thousands of works of street art around the UK and abroad. I’ve stumbled across…
Forget missed chances
When I first stepped off the tube for a job interview in Camden Town over a half a decade ago, it’d be fair to say that I was less than immediately enamoured to the place . “A vastly unattractive part of London,” I called it. A grubby corner of North London, overcrowded with “punk/goth poseurs…
We were tired in Whitstable
We were tired and fattened and half drunk from dinner, but the early evening was warm and calm. Before the train back to London, we walked down along the shore to catch the last light that Whitstable Bay could spare. It was beautiful. We could have spent the night sleeping right there on the sand, but she’d already paid for the return tickets.