Anni Duo
2011 has been an amazing year in many respects, but in many ways the only reason it’s been as good as it has is because I’ve had my wife of two years (today) by my side for all of it. Sarah understands me better than anyone on the planet. She can coax me out of [...]
New Year’s Resolutions – #4: Travel
In an attempt to hold myself to my resolutions this year, I’m blogging them. You can read more of my resolutions here. Travel I love travelling. I love exploring new places and meeting new people. Now that, for various reasons, I won’t be travelling as much for my day job as I have in years [...]
10
This time ten years ago, we were sat in the lounge of our old house, waiting for the time to tick by so that we could go to our new GP for our initial check-ups. Sarah was feeling ill that day, I remember. The TV was on. Some meaningless soap or other - Doctors, perhaps [...]
Haters gonna hate
Thanks to the wonders of technology I’m writing this about 10,000m above Nevada, en route to London from San Francisco. More about that later, perhaps. Of course, I can’t actually post this from up here, but I like being able to write the draft on my phone nevertheless. Anyway, I was rather tickled to find, [...]
Laser focus
Once again, I’m moved to think – and blog – by something (actually two things) that Chase Jarvis has written. It’s that time of year when, with a new tax year starting, you have to think about your priorities for the next 12 months. Okay, you always have to think about those, but it seems [...]
Vision would be nice, part 2
This will make a whole lot more sense if you’ve already read part 1. On Saturday morning Tony and I met outside X2Studios, waiting to be let in and begin another day of shooting, this time in controlled conditions. There were, of course, a few things to throw us off our stride right from the [...]
Vision would be nice, part 1
This is part 1 of a two-part series. Part 2 will appear online in a couple of days. It’s been a funny few weeks at Binns Towers; madly busy with barely a moment to breathe, or so it’s seemed to those of us caught in the tide of everything going on. It seems to be [...]
Amie Dodgson with a camera
(This post originally appeared on my internet brain-dump and visual notebook). amiebooemp: Amie Dodgson Photography Amie Dodgson, who’s an extremely talented photographer, not to mention a phenomenal model*, has a new website for showcasing her photography. Go take a look. *I came across Amie’s ModelMayhem portfolio when I first joined that site two years or [...]
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Quite terrifyingly (in some ways), I now have a photography-dedicated Facebook page. Why? Well, as I said recently, my personal Facebook page is for people I actually know. This one is for, well, everyone else. I don’t expect masses of popularity, but feel free to like me if you want to. Right, ego trip over. [...]
Where I am on the Internet – January 2011 edition
Haven’t been around for a while. Again. You might have noticed. I really must make more of an effort to actually finish the blog entries I start rather than just forgetting about them, which I’m wont to do. Anyway, a quick summary of where you can find me on the web these days, since I [...]
That was the 2010 that was
Once again our pale blue dot has managed to meander around the sun without crashing or imploding or vanishing in a puff of improbability. All of which traditionally means that we’re supposed to be taking stock, making resolutions and then absorbing a large amount of alcohol, but since we’re having a quiet night in round [...]
Anno Uno
You’ll forgive me a massively soppy post, I’m sure. A year ago today (assuming that the WordPress scheduler does its thing) I married my childhood sweetheart and best friend, Sarah. It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year; it seems to have flashed past, rather like a YouTube clip being fast forwarded: there are [...]
Nuit Blanche
Nuit Blanche from Spy Films on Vimeo. This is Nuit Blanche by Arev Manoukian. It’s possibly the most arrestingly beautiful short film I’ve seen in a while, and it’s got me thinking once again about making moving as well as still art. It also allowed me to avoid having to write an actual blog post, [...]
Where Good Ideas Come From
Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson on YouTube. Worth thinking about.
Holding notice
Your regularly scheduled programming is a bit slow in coming to you the past few days, basically because I don’t seem to have stopped doing, well, anything very much, since the middle of last week. I put out a casting call on ModelMayhem a couple of weeks back and I’m trying to wade my way [...]
My name’s Graham, and I’m a workaholic
Well, that’s not completely accurate. I guess that a better way of putting it is “I’m a doing-stuff-aholic.” I don’t like not having stuff to do, and I have a low boredom threshold. Weekends are, in many ways, the worst time for this particular -aholism. You’re supposed to relax at the weekend, do relaxing things [...]
The Fear
I had another blog post planned for tonight. It was about something that I can’t remember, but I can’t think that it was anything very important (because if it was, I would’ve created a draft entry for it, and I haven’t, so it mustn’t be). Instead, I’m going to write about The Fear. I’m going [...]
Lightly Motivated
I seem to be taking in training material at an accelerated rate. I don’t know if I’m just trying to compensate for a lack of shooting time recently (on which subject more later) or whether I’ve just got too much disposable income at the moment, but with books, CreativeLIVE and Kelby Training and now Bert [...]
Welcome, welcome
Well hello, weary traveller, welcome back. If you’re new to the place, you might notice a few changes. New theme, slideshow on the frontpage and, yes, dear reader, I’ve finally migrated back to WordPress after three years of using Frabjous. Why? Well, all sorts of reasons really, but the main one was that I was [...]
Brief blog break
Behold Crystal, she of the room full of mirrors. We decided to do something a bit strange. Anyway, just a short note to say I’m going to be Not Blogging for the next couple of weeks (I know, nothing new, but I thought I’d say anyway). My Awesome Wife and I are going to be [...]
Welcome to my humble abode
Hello. If you’ve been here before you’ll have noticed that I’ve changed things a bit; moved the furniture around, repainted the skirting boards, stripped the old wallpaper and removed the artex from the ceiling. Hope you like it. I’ve gone for a much simpler, more stripped-back look-and-feel this time around. I’m not interested in having [...]
Brain porridge
So, first off, brain is better than it was early Friday morning, though I still have a head full of snot, so everything smells of the kind of old, forgotten dustiness you find in attics. More brain-dumpery, I’m afraid, since I can’t be bothered to make this into anything coherent. Alan Bell replied to my [...]
fnarg
Feel ratty beyond belief right now: really cruddy front-brain headache, eyes stinging, that kind of thing. And this is just a cold; annoying as hell and it makes it hard to think. This may be brain-dumpy in the extreme. But thinking I am, a bit, about what to do with grahambinns.com. It doesn’t serve its [...]
