I have created a facebook page! Follow this link and 'like' it - you know you want to...! My new showreel is on there, and on my main website too, so go have a butchers.
I have a few animation projects coming up which I'm looking forward to; a good friend is pitching on an Olympics-themed series with interest from C4 and Five, and he's in need of a title sequence. Also, the label behind The Shortwave Set (a favourite band of mine - check out their album 'Replica Sun Machine') has asked to see a 30-second demo to see if I can make them a music video - this I am rather excited about! And on top of all this I am writing a short film which I plan to make in the Spring which will be mixed-media and is all about a stalker and his dreams.
At Imaginox, we are getting ever closer to our imminent launch and it's all rather exciting, though highly angst-ridden! Making the final tweaks to the website and finishing off the first load of content, and we'll be launching before the month is up. All filmmaker types should head over to our placeholder website to register your interest and we can update you when it's ready to sign up (free!) and look through our courses.
For now, signing out. Big love all round.
Friday, 11 February 2011
Monday, 17 January 2011
Thailand > Xmas and New Year > Back to work
At the beginning of December I took a trip to Thailand for a few weeks. My brother is an English teacher out there and I also have a good friend living in Bangkok, so I went over with the express purpose of catching up and having a blast while I was there. I was not disappointed.
Thailand is an incredible place; it would take too long to sum the trip up, but rest assured it would include elephants, monkeys, trekking through the oldest rainforest on Earth, swimming in the river and getting covered in leeches, sleeper trains and moped riding, good food, and especially good company. All round great trip.
I got back on Christmas Eve, luckily one of only about 10 flights to actually arrive in London that week what with the snow. Straight away I went back to Tunbridge Wells to spend the festival period with my family and oldest friends. It was a relaxed week, no mental drunkenness or anything like that, just a solidly good, enjoyable and unassuming Christmas and New Year.
And the next day I was back in London with work looming. After nearly a month off, I wasn't relishing the prospect, but now I am back I remember how much I enjoy having a good bit of work to do. We are right on the edge of launching www.imaginox.co.uk and it's all very exciting right now.
Good times.
Thailand is an incredible place; it would take too long to sum the trip up, but rest assured it would include elephants, monkeys, trekking through the oldest rainforest on Earth, swimming in the river and getting covered in leeches, sleeper trains and moped riding, good food, and especially good company. All round great trip.
I got back on Christmas Eve, luckily one of only about 10 flights to actually arrive in London that week what with the snow. Straight away I went back to Tunbridge Wells to spend the festival period with my family and oldest friends. It was a relaxed week, no mental drunkenness or anything like that, just a solidly good, enjoyable and unassuming Christmas and New Year.
And the next day I was back in London with work looming. After nearly a month off, I wasn't relishing the prospect, but now I am back I remember how much I enjoy having a good bit of work to do. We are right on the edge of launching www.imaginox.co.uk and it's all very exciting right now.
Good times.
Friday, 3 December 2010
Summer and Sun > Imaginox > London > CTBF Award > Winter and Snow.
As a (newly) introductory note, I'll begin by summing up the last few months.
To start in the Summer (remember that?) - so much sun and plenty o' changes afoot.
I had received an email out of the blue from an old friend which would shape the rest of the year. I had met Arjun on the set of the first film I had ever worked on back when I was 17, and kept vaguely in touch ever since. He asked me if I was free to come up to London and work for him and his new venture - an online film school, Imaginox - in an editing and marketing role. I was, and happy to take him up on it.
All the logistics were worked out, and I moved up to a house in Wembley (funnily enough, the location of the very same first film shoot) and started work mid-July.
It's been a very exciting time; preparing for the launch of the company, meeting some brilliant people, compiling the website content, getting the company name out there, and so on. It looks set to be something utterly unique and really could make a big impact on industry education. In the interest of brevity for this post, I'll leave it there, but no doubt this will crop up in future posts.
Living in London has been great, it's an incredible city, with which I have had an on-off love affair since I was 11. I don't feel I've made the most of being up here yet, what with one thing and another, but look forward to doing so in the new year.
Along the way, I had also been short-listed to receive a John Brabourne Award from the CTBF. I nervously attended a rather intimidating 'Dragon's Den'-style interview with the committee in the Autumn, and was thrilled to be awarded £1000 towards equipping myself for my animation ambitions. I now have a collection of new and shiny toys, and look forward to pushing forward with this parallel side to my career after Christmas, starting with an experimental short on the subject of nightmares, in collusion with another equally genius Adam.
And so now we are in Winter. Busy busy busy with Imaginox, getting close to the imminent launch, but looking forward to some time off for the rest of the month (more on this, surely, later on).
The weather couldn't be more of a contrast to where it was when I moved here, now in the grip of an unprecedented cold-spell for this time of year. It feels like it's been an overnight change, it's gone that quickly. But in retrospect, a lot has happened, and it doesn't look like stopping.
Onwards!
To start in the Summer (remember that?) - so much sun and plenty o' changes afoot.
I had received an email out of the blue from an old friend which would shape the rest of the year. I had met Arjun on the set of the first film I had ever worked on back when I was 17, and kept vaguely in touch ever since. He asked me if I was free to come up to London and work for him and his new venture - an online film school, Imaginox - in an editing and marketing role. I was, and happy to take him up on it.
All the logistics were worked out, and I moved up to a house in Wembley (funnily enough, the location of the very same first film shoot) and started work mid-July.
It's been a very exciting time; preparing for the launch of the company, meeting some brilliant people, compiling the website content, getting the company name out there, and so on. It looks set to be something utterly unique and really could make a big impact on industry education. In the interest of brevity for this post, I'll leave it there, but no doubt this will crop up in future posts.
Living in London has been great, it's an incredible city, with which I have had an on-off love affair since I was 11. I don't feel I've made the most of being up here yet, what with one thing and another, but look forward to doing so in the new year.
Along the way, I had also been short-listed to receive a John Brabourne Award from the CTBF. I nervously attended a rather intimidating 'Dragon's Den'-style interview with the committee in the Autumn, and was thrilled to be awarded £1000 towards equipping myself for my animation ambitions. I now have a collection of new and shiny toys, and look forward to pushing forward with this parallel side to my career after Christmas, starting with an experimental short on the subject of nightmares, in collusion with another equally genius Adam.
And so now we are in Winter. Busy busy busy with Imaginox, getting close to the imminent launch, but looking forward to some time off for the rest of the month (more on this, surely, later on).
The weather couldn't be more of a contrast to where it was when I moved here, now in the grip of an unprecedented cold-spell for this time of year. It feels like it's been an overnight change, it's gone that quickly. But in retrospect, a lot has happened, and it doesn't look like stopping.
Onwards!
Starting Again
I've been and gone and done it; I've deleted all my previous blog posts, all in the interest of a clean slate from which to start again, and start again I will. Wish me luck!
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