Work Featured How To Juggle Projects Breaking down a system for managing multiple projects without going insane.
Inspiration This Is Not A Conspiracy Theory It’s finally complete; Kirby Ferguson’s latest episodic online documentary “This Is Not A Conspiracy Theory” posted its seventh and final episode last night.
Photography Featured Reality Bleeds in Los Angeles... I took the new (to me, it was actually "new" in 1973) Hasselblad with me to LA last week. I hadn't had it serviced, so I knew the results were likely to be a little dicey. I got the negatives back yesterday and oh boy there
Photography Hasselblad A couple of weeks ago, I took the plunge and bought an old (1973) Hasselblad 500CM on eBay. There have been a few teething problems, but this is the first successful image out of it and has made me fall in love with film all over again. I took the
Stuff Comments... As an experiment, I've enabled comments on this site in an effort to get a little interaction going. I'm using the Commento code and I haven't tried it before so there might be some teething problems, we shall see. In the meantime, say Hi
Inspiration Ridley Scott's The Seven Worlds This is from earlier in the year, but I only just saw it. Ridley Scott made this short film for Hennessey and it is stunning.
Inspiration Night Of The Living Podcast interview I did an interview last night with Freddy and Kelley from the Night Of The Living Podcast. It was easily the most fun interview I've done but I haven't listened back to it, so there's a decent chance I talk a lot of nonsense.
Creativity Truth and fiction in "The Whisperer In Darkness" A few things it seemed useful to mention that might be of interest to listeners...
Creativity The Evil Has Landed... We finally have something for you to listen to; the first three episodes of The Whisperer In Darkness are available via BBC Sounds and on your podcast app of choice. There will be further installments over the next couple of Mondays.
Creativity A longer trail - Episode 0 Ahead of the first batch of THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS going live tomorrow, BBC Sounds have released a longer trail, in the form of Episode Zero.
Creativity The Whisperer In Darkness The first trailer for the sequel podcast to THE CASE OF CHARLES DEXTER WARD has just landed. Series available on December 2nd...
Inspiration INFODUMP 33 is now live... It'll be in your inbox if you subscribe (or your junk mail folder if you're smart) or you can see it HERE [https://mailchi.mp/e20164f9f8ba/3tvbt58cwu-2331393?e=c45bcdb407]. If you're new to it and you like it, there's a subscribe box
Creativity The Scorsese-Marvel thing Wherein I add absolutely nothing to the debate and ultimately fail to pick a side.
Stuff Aaron Sorkin's open letter to Mark Zuckerberg I'm not usually a fan of the open letter, as it just feels kind of performative to me, but this one is very good. I left Facebook a few months ago and, as this whole political ad thing plays out, I'm happy to file that as one of my better decisions.
Inspiration Robert Richardson Robert Richardson's work on Oliver Stone's movies and on Scorsese's films represents the pinnacle of the cinematographer's art. Latterly he's been doing amazing things with Tarantino and here he is talking to Deadline about "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood".
Inspiration A piece on Lovecraft I'd completely forgotten being interviewed for this piece and so I didn't think to look for it until today.
Writing Interview with Kurt Sutter This is a really interesting piece, from Deadline, with some insights into the studio process and showrunner politics.
Creativity On walking This, from the peerless Brain Pickings: https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/01/10/kenneth-grahame-the-fellow-that-goes-alone/
