Month: December 2011
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My 2011 Round-Up: 1,000 Miles, 87,000 Words & 78 Minutes
2011 kicked off with a spur-of-the-moment winter adventure. I threw my bike and kit on a bus to Oslo and set off on an ill-advised thousand-mile bike trip through northern Scandinavia to the Arctic Circle. Running a daily blog from my tent added generously to the challenge. Temperatures dropped to ‑33°C. People thought I was nuts. But […] Continue reading →
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Are Book-Writing And Film-Making The Same Thing?
Subjects are nouns, their actions are verbs, their appearances adjectives. A sentence is a single shot, while a paragraph is a sequence of them. Paragraphs are built into chapters, and sequences are built into stories. Then chapters are assembled into books; stories into films. The viewfinder is my vocabulary. The focus ring and exposure dial are […] Continue reading →
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30,000 Miles Around The World In (Not Just) A Wheelchair
I’m really excited to have put together this new website for extreme athlete Andy Campbell, who’s planning a 30,000-mile round-the world expedition beginning next year. The difference? Andy’s been paralysed from the waist down since a climbing accident in 2004. Continue reading →
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Film Blog: Publicising Janapar (Rant Alert)
We respect and engage with transparency and honesty. Storytelling has become a huge focus after these last few years of travel — of generating stories to tell. So transparency and honesty will be a cornerstone. There’s nothing I hate more than corporate bullshit or self-aggrandisement. But we’re so numb with it that we’ve almost forgotten […] Continue reading →
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And For My Next Trip…
It’s announcement time! In a few short months I’m planning to take a bike trip through a nation that’s permanently in the headlines, but which I — like most of us here in the U.K. — know absolutely nothing about. That nation, of course, is Continue reading →
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Film Blog: A Recent Q&A Session Yielded The Following Conversation
A little context — my brother is a journalist in Vancouver, and he conducted this interview with me for his blog. His questions provoked some interesting thoughts. Tell me about the development of the movie. Did you expect that it would become a fully fledged feature, rather than a simple documentary? The best way to […] Continue reading →
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Film Blog: One Down. Many More To Go
It came as little surprise to receive the following email yesterday. Dear James, Continue reading →