A distant roar, moving closer
On Sunday, James treated me to the delights of the Farnborough Airshow. It was absolutely mad – like fireworks in the daytime. Noisy, brash, smelly and brilliant. Far and away the thing that made the...
View ArticleReading poems made by maths
A while back I wrote about playing around with tweets, Markov chains and the shipping forecast to make little audio experiments. This is the second part of that. Probably not much point reading on if...
View Article“Matthew Sheret is typing”
Taken by James. I really like Slack – nice little place to drop in and out of on a workday. I don’t use it nearly as well as I should.
View ArticleTerms we don’t need to define
I thoroughly enjoyed Laptops and Looms. Brilliant to get outside of my head, outside of London, and thinking about bits of culture and technology that I don’t have a professional excuse to anymore....
View ArticleThirty stories on thirty postcards
Like I said, one last thirty day thing left in me. But this one I’m keeping offline. Nat’s started up 30 days of stories, which got me thinking of an alternative version. A cover version. 30 stories on...
View ArticleMcDo
Honestly, I quite like the new McDonalds ads. I haven’t seen the TV campaign (I assume there is one) and I’m sure the radio version’s a bit shit, but the billboards are neat. In them, I recognise the...
View ArticleRescued moments
“Some of these images are so familiar to me, so much a part of my little history, that much like the songs I have written, these photographs have become the props around which my memories collect.” I...
View ArticleCulture about culture
Somewhat predictably, I loved 20,000 Days on Earth and The Possibilities Are Endless. Beautiful films that’ll be filed away under ‘music documentary’ when they do that brilliant thing of slipping...
View Article2014: Foxes, exploration, walking, laughing
A hard year to write about, but I ended far happier than I started. Traveled more than ever before, moved into my “first home”, sold my “first home”, got dumped, fell in love, went to therapy, made an...
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